Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris is sporting a look these days courtesy of taking his knee to his face.

The 30-year-old from Regina posted on Instagram earlier this week a video of himself spinning and twisting high above a snowy slope.

Upon landing, the video immediately cut to the snowboarder in a Revelstoke, B.C., hospital bed with a bruised eye swollen shut, crooked nose and facial cuts.

McMorris didnB次元官网网址檛 quite stick the landing of a double backflip backside 180 with a nose grab. He drove his knee into his face and broke his orbital bone and his nose.

He thanked his goggles for absorbing some of the impact of his knee, saying, B次元官网网址渂ecause IB次元官网网址檓 not sure where my eye would be. Maybe in the back of my head.B次元官网网址�

McMorris underwent surgery Monday in Vancouver. On the brighter side, McMorris didnB次元官网网址檛 sustain a serious concussion.

B次元官网网址淲hen you break your orbital bone and your nose, you donB次元官网网址檛 rule it out, but my symptoms on the concussion front are super-mild and I have full recollection of what went on,B次元官网网址� he said.

McMorris is a triple Olympic bronze medallist in slopestyle in 2014, 2018 and 2022. He holds the Winter X Games record for the most career medals with 23, including 11 gold. Six career gold medals in menB次元官网网址檚 slopestyle is also a record.

HeB次元官网网址檇 taken a step back from competition this season, although he claimed an X Games slopestyle silver medal in Aspen, Colo., in January.

McMorris was filming a Burton Red Bull film in the backcountry near Revelstoke after competing in last weekB次元官网网址檚 Natural Selection event.

B次元官网网址淚 took a bit too much speed at the jump,B次元官网网址� he said. B次元官网网址淚 went a little bit long. I didnB次元官网网址檛 catch the transition where I probably should have and then kind of over rotated the trick I was trying, so it was a combination of things that led to it.

B次元官网网址淟uckily, I was with amazing guides and they flew me out and got me to the hospital right away. I got X-rayed and taken awesome care of.

B次元官网网址淭he decision was that I needed to be operated on, but we needed the swelling to come down. I packed up and got out to Vancouver to see Dr. Aaron Brown who actually did my jaw when I got hurt about seven years ago.B次元官网网址�

McMorris waited until just before surgery Monday in Vancouver to post the Revelstoke video.

B次元官网网址淚 was a little bit sad then but now IB次元官网网址檓 feeling a lot better and IB次元官网网址檓 happy to have the surgery behind me and just be moving forward with the healing process,B次元官网网址� he said. B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 lucky to to have all my lower extremities in great shape. I will be snowboarding again in four to six weeks.B次元官网网址�

McMorris is no stranger to rehabilitation.

Less than a year after flying into a B.C. backcountry tree B次元官网网址� the tally was left arm and jaw injuries, a ruptured spleen, fractured pelvis and ribs and collapsed left lung B次元官网网址� McMorris won the second of his three Olympic medals.

Near the end of a dominant season in which a snowboard magazine named him the 2016 rider of the year, McMorris broke a femur at an Air and Style event in Los Angeles.

McMorris won CanadaB次元官网网址檚 first medal of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where he competed with a fractured rib sustained at the X Games less than a month earlier. He fell on his first run of the final, but nailed his second to claim bronze.

He says his current injuries will interrupt training. HeB次元官网网址檚 unable to continue the Burton film shoot that has shifted to Alaska.

B次元官网网址淒efinitely not my first rodeo and the rehab shouldnB次元官网网址檛 be too strenuous,B次元官网网址� McMorris said

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