‘Tough as nails’: Brother of Mark McMorris shares photo of injured snowboarder
VANCOUVER — There were tubes in Mark McMorris’s nose and bruises around his left eye and cheek, but the Canadian snowboarding star was giving the thumbs-up and flashing a small smile in an Instagram photo posted Tuesday by his brother.
The Olympic bronze medallist from Regina is confined to a Vancouver hospital bed after suffering serious injuries in a crash in the B.C. backcountry over the weekend.
“Kids tough as nails,” his older brother Craig wrote in his feed on the photo-sharing app. “All good news from here on out. So much love.”
Cindy McMorris is at her son’s side in photo, which quickly attracted thousands of likes and several hunderd comments.