Sault Ste. Marie’s Mac Marcoux will not compete in his final scheduled event at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.
Marcoux, who opened the event with a silver medal in the men’s visually-impaired downhill event earlier in the weekend, crashed in Sunday’s Super G race, suffering an injury in the process.
The Canadian Paralympic Committee confirmed Marcoux’s injury in a release issued late Sunday night, adding that it would keep him and guide Tristan Rodgers out of the remainder of the Games as a result.
Marcoux called competing in the Games this year rewarding.
“The beginning of the Games was probably one of the most rewarding weeks of my ski career,” Marcoux in a prepared statement. “The last couple of years have been a grind and to be able to get back here healthy and happy and stoked to push out of the start gate was a huge win for Tristan and I. To be able to come home with a medal around our necks is just incredible, there was lot of gratitude standing on the podium, and I couldn’t be more grateful for everyone that has supported me. It’s super unfortunate how the Super-G went down, crashing is one thing, but to be laid up again for the next little while is upsetting. It’s not the best case, but that’s all a part of ski racing. I’ll be excited to get after it and come back stronger.”
A back injury kept the 24-year-old from competing in World Cup events ahead of the Paralympics.
In the downhill event, Marcoux posted a time of 1L13.81 seconds to finish second behind Austria’s Johannes Aigner, who won gold with a time of 1:13.45.
Prior to this years Games, Marcoux won a gold and two bronze medals in the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia before winning a gold and bronze at the 2018 event in PyeongChang, South Korea.
-with files from the Canadian Press