By Canadian Press

Canadian snowboarder Toutant says he “broke some ribs” at X Games

Jan 27, 2020 | 1:51 PM

Canadian snowboarder Sebastien Toutant says he “broke some ribs” at the X Games in Aspen over the weekend but is already looking forward to a quick return to the sport.

The reigning Olympic big air gold medallist divulged the injury in a social media post Monday that was accompanied by a photo of himself smiling while sitting in a hospital bed.

“This year at X Games I crashed and broke some ribs. Luckily there was nothing internal affected!” the 27-year-old wrote in a post that appeared on both his Twitter and Instagram accounts. “Snowboarding is all I know and I’ll do whatever it takes to come back quickly and stronger.”

Toutant appeared to suffer the injury during a slopestyle qualifying run Thursday. He did not compete in either the slopestyle or big air finals on Saturday and Sunday.

The l’Assomption, Que., native was coming off a gold-medal win in slopestyle at a World Cup event in Switzerland a week before the X Games.

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Toutant has six career X Games medals — two gold, two silver and two bronze.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 27, 2020.

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