Olympian Mark McMorris on overcoming disastrous injury

Snowboarding Olympian Mark McMorris is set for his second Winter Games after overcoming a disastrous injury. In March 2017 McMorris took a jump, drifted a little to the side, and slammed right into a tree. He broke his jaw, his left arm, his pelvis, some ribs, ruptured his spleen - and suffered a collapsed lung. Despite the injury, he was named to the Olympic team, on the condition he make a full recovery in time.
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