VANCOUVER - Star Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris says he "almost died" when he crashed going off a jump in the B.C. backcountry last weekend.
The Olympic bronze medallist .
He called the past week the hardest of his life.
"Sorry for the silence," he added. "I almost died and now I'm trying to get better."
He ended the tweet by saying "stories are coming."
A bronze medallist in slopestyle at the 2014 Olympics, McMorris suffered breaks to his jaw and left arm, a ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung.
Past week has been the hardest week of my life.
— Mark McMorris (@markmcmorris)
sorry for the silence.. I almost died and now I'm trying to get better.
Stories are coming����
