WATCH: Mark McMorris is back home and ready to relax.
TORONTO – Olympic slopestyle bronze medallist Mark McMorris heads home to Regina tomorrow and says he’s bracing for a big welcome from fervent fans.
The snowboarding heart-throb says he’s excited to see his friends and chow down on a plate of his mom’s homemade spaghetti when he gets home.
The 20-year-old pushed through the pain of a broken rib last Saturday to snag a bronze in men’s snowboard slopestyle, which made its Olympic debut in Sochi.
He was the first Canadian to medal in the new event and the first Canuck to earn a medal at the 2014 Games.
McMorris says the night he won, he put his medal on the pillow on the bed beside his in his hotel room and slept facing it.
He says he didn’t realize the magnitude of his win until he returned to Canada on Tuesday.
McMorris has been greeted gaggles of girls during a media blitz in Toronto this week.
He says he feels all the attention is “positive,” noting it just means he needs “to watch out a little bit” when it comes to what he does, where he goes and what he says.
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