Free from 'sports prison,' Winter athletes get chance to enjoy Olympics without a COVID lockdown
NBAIn some ways, the goals Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris set for the Milan Cortina Olympics are the same ones he set in his three previous appearances at the Games. The last time the Winter Olympians convened, the COVID-19 pandemic was still raging. McMorris, the 32-year-old slopestyler who won his third straight bronze medal at those Games, summed up the experience by famously calling his stay in the mountains something like a trip to “sports prison."