mark mcmorris feels lucky to do what he loves most. joy. >> what is the first thing you remember from after the accident? >> when they took me out of the coma. and everybody was standing there. i couldn't talk. but they gave me a pen and paper. and i wrote -- do i have brain damage. can i go to the olympics? still? >> not only did mcmorris make it off to the olympics he is the snow board slopestyle bronze medalist. >> it was really scary to start trying some of the tricks again. but i just need to remind myself i got hurt in the back country hitting a tree. didn't get hurt trying the tricks. >> winter olympics definitely have gotten more dangerous. >> this historian has attended every winter games since 1992. >> let's face it is good tv to see people risking their lives and health is good television. >> british journal of sports medicine studied the sochi olympics and found 49% of all aerial skiers in the games suffered an injury. many of the most dangerous sports according to the study are extreme sports. which made their olympics deb

there was a nother man on the podium who could lay claim to an even greater achievement can as mark mcmorris managed to win bronze just eleven months after a crash left him fighting for his life. and in the bundesliga stuttgart move further away from the relegation zone after beating bosio one nil forward daniel guinn czech struck the only goal of the game after just five minutes are yet to lose a game under new coach typhon kaur cook the victory puts them four points clear of the relegation playoff spot and seven clear of the automatic drop zone. unsatisfaction also sought shelter travel to buy and the royal blues are desperate for points but their chances looks like him fire had one of their last eight games and the bonus they get could they spring a surprise let's find out. a quick hello from laon gorecki to his future by and teammates he'll be leaving shall cry in the summer coach to many her to death go set to stall out to defend with four men at the back instead of his usual three but it made no difference to the league's best attack thomas miller's effort from distance provided the pe

two poor opening roads but his final run elevated him to the front of the pack in fact paris and mark mcmorris followed in so far and. on the games got off to a buying for t. germany as well who has quite the olympic gold rush on day one claiming two gold medals that meant a huge party was in store for the german has. been champion andrea. biathlon winner in the red dot on my arm where the stars of the show after their performances on the snow that's two weeks of events ago has in store to be the scene of plenty more thought abrasions. and for more on the winter olympics and make sure you check out our website at www dot com forward slash olympics all the latest results the best pictures and stories are right there also follow us on twitter at sports for life updates. but the biggest soccer now and saturday's action sol shaka travel to buy and the royal blues were desperate for points with a raft of clubs buckling for champions league places but their chances looks lame by and had won their last eight games in the ones they get so could they spring a surprise at find us. a quick hello from lao

opening runs but his final run elevates his him to the front of the pack canadian snacks paris and mark mcmorris followed in silver and bronze. and the games got off to a buying for team germany who had quite the olympic gold rush on day one claiming two gold medals and that meant a huge party was in store at the german had china ski jumping champion andre as the bellinger and biathlon winner now a red dot on my at where the stars of the show to their performances on the snow the two more weeks of events ago the has is sure to be the scene of plenty more celebrations. of football has returned to the egyptians there's yet ports laid six years after the country's worst ever stating disaster that was when more than seventy people died after fans invaded the pitch and a riot in suits supporters of the local side insist that they weren't to blame bush it was a bittersweet homecoming nonetheless they've been waiting so long for this moments they were even happy to queue during the six year ban these are mass free france had to watch their team play home games away from port side the stadium was banned

performance there was another man on the podium who could claim an even greater achievement canada's mark mcmorrismanaged to win a bronze just eleven months after a crash left him fighting for his life. and here in germany a carnival season and thousands of revelers have been dressing up and flashy costumes to celebrate many groups take part in the festivities by creating humorous floats for huge parades on rose monday and this year the jewish community of just is joining in the fun. revelers in germany's carnival strongholds like here in cologne have been getting into party mode well in advance of monday's big parades. in neighboring doesn't this year's procession will feature a novelty for the first time the jewish community is taking part in the parade with its own slogan. right now we're experiencing a sharp increase in anti semitism in germany. you can lament it you can argue about it or you can approach it with a sense of humor. that's why the jewish community is contributing a satirical flowed out of. the slow chose the one nine hundred century german writer heinrich china with a kippa and

there but he is not the only story in this event the man there on the right as well he's called mark mcmorris and it's no surprise that he actually won some one a medal it's because eleven months ago he had a serious accident close to death had a fractured door fracture left arm ruptured spleen pelvic fracture ribs ribs everything possible but a beautiful story to think that he managed to come back from that and actually win a medal even justin trudeau commending his tenacity and courage in saying that he is an inspiration for all so well there are a fillet that we know that there are some excitement in the men's thirty kilometers get on as well indeed with the patriots in a second of a norway you know we've been consuming kruger he started his very first race and look at this so. you can see people landing on top of him so he was the last person to get out of this but you have to come to catch up and in very first race he did go on to win gold sensational for the twenty four or sixty three of the ski is finished the race and one sixteen seconds it was had a second question of the chase and t

poor opening rows but his final run elevated him to the front of the pack canadians max paris and mark mcmorrisfollowed in silver and bronze. team germany also had a good start in the games taming two gold medals on day one that meant a huge party was in store at the german has. ski jumping champion andrus that linger and be off a long winter laura don meyer where the stars of the show after their performance. and one of the biggest soccer saturdays actions all shall travel to buy a new next audience rena the royal blues were desperate for points to get back into the top four for that coveted champions league spot but saugus chances looked slim considering by and had won their last eight games in the bundesliga a fine day he came out on top. a quick hello from laon gorecki to his future by and teammates he'll be leaving shall cry in the summer coach to many her to death go set his stall out to defend with four men at the back instead of his usual three but it made no difference to the league's best attack thomas willis effort from distance provided the perfect assist for robert levin duffy i on

goods that he wasn't the only one who has got an incredible story the bronze medalist as well mark mcmorris has an interesting one yes he does so make morris he's a canadian snowboarder and he basically had a brush with death almost a year ago yes so if he can actually pull up the pictures there you see him in hospital he has tube attached all over his body he was put in a medically induced coma coma after an accident left him with get this seventeen broken bones a collapsed lung a fractured spleen and the cause of all of this is what he caused a freak accident he thought he would die so and he basically went. out with his friends to from some of his chums and he ended up crashing into a treat so after winning the bronze today he even came out saying that you know everything that i've been through all the injuries that it might have been a bronze but it felt like gold what an incredible story and turnaround as well for him and the host south korea how are they doing so far not bad i mean day one was biggest speed because the most talked about story was the unified korean ice hockey teams th

i mean it was crazy it was really wild to me that first place i was jogging canadian writer mark mcmorris finished with bronze an incredible turnaround after crashing into a tray last year the twenty four year old was lucky to escape with his loss suffering a collapsed lung several fractured bones and a ruptured spleen i never thing i take things for granted but i really appreciate everything more than i used to and glad to be on this earth to be living the life i'm living in. doing the thing that makes me most happy which is snowboarding. mcmorris to flying the odds to claim memorable olympic medals. our minder now of our top story this hour a russian passenger plane is reported to have crashed outside wall all seventy one people who are on board feared to have been killed will continue to bring you updates on this breaking news story as we get them for now we thank you for watching d.w. news we'll join you again at the top of the hour for more news in the meantime you can find the latest on our web site address is d.w. dot com and follow us on twitter and let you know what you thought a

wasn't the only medalist celebrating the party was so good he was joined by canada's snowboarder mark mcmorris who leave the austrian house is the place to be. a millions of dressed up revelers have taken to the streets across germany to celebrate the country's biggest costume party carnival the western city of cologne is particularly famous for its flamboyant carnival perceptions and those taking part today are set to throw hundreds of thousands of bunches of flowers and chocolate bars to the crowd the festivities are also traditionally a chance to make fun of those in power of many of the floats feature of huge on slaughtering puppets of politicians and businessmen. a reminder now of our top stories that we're following for you at this hour german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to serve out another full four year term this despite being under fire from her own conservatives for making sweeping concessions to form a coalition government and hang on to power. and top officials from south africa's ruling a.n.c. party are meeting today to quote finalize the departure of president jacob zuma

performance there was another man on the podium who could claim an even greater achievement canada's mark mcmorris managed to win bronze after just eleven months after a crash left him fighting for his life. as your monitor of our top stories at this hour german chancellor all america has vowed to serve out another full term this despite being under fire from her own conservatives for making sweeping concessions to form a coalition government and hang on to power. and top officials from south africa's governing and see party saying they are ready to poach finalize a departure of president jacob zuma zuma has already refused calls to step down and is under no constitutional obligation to do so. this is good of you news live from berlin don't forget you can always find out more about these and other stories that are a web site t w dot com you can also false of course on twitter and facebook for now though from all of us here in berlin thanks so much for being with us back again at the top of the hour. and. a steady job is their greatest dream. shanda from syrian and jet from afghanistan to see their

. >> reporter: after nearly dying last year in a snowboarding accident, mark mcmorris loves doing whathat he calls ultimate joy. >> what's the first thing you remember after the accident? >> when they took me out of the coma and everybody was standing there. i couldn't talk, but they gave me a pen and paper and i wrote, do i have brain damage and can i go to the olympics still. >> not only did mcmorris make it to the olympics, but he was a snowboarding bronze medalist. >> it was scary to try some of those tricks again, but i had to remind myself i got hurt in the backcountry hitting a tree. >> reporter: historian david wall enchin ski hen chen ski ha every game since 1962. >> it's great television. >> the british journal of sports medicine studied the sochi olympics and found that nearly 49% of all aerial skiers in that game suffered an injury. many of those are extreme sports which made their olympics debut in 2006. >> the international olympic committee several years ago decided they were losing the youth audience. not a lot of americans watch biathl biathlons. but they'll watch snow

. >> after nearly dying in a back country snowboarding accident, mark mcmorris feels lucky to do what he calls ultimate joy. >> what is the first thing you remember from after the accident? >> when they took me out of the coma and everybody was standing there. they can talk, but they gave me a pen and paper. i wrote do i have brain damage and can i go to the olympics still? >> not only did mcmorris make it to the olympics. he is the snowboard slope style bronze medalist. >> it's scary to try some of the tricks again. i need to remind myself, i got hurt in the back country hitting a tree. he didn't get hurt trying those crazy tricks. >> the winter olympics have most definitely gotten more dangerous. >> historian david has attended every winter games since 1992. >> let's face it, it's good tv. to see people risking their health, their lives is great television. sorry. >> the british journal of sports medicine studied the winter olympics and found that nearly 49% of all aerial skiers in those games suffered an injury. many of the most dangerous sports akorkd ccording to the s are extreme

really stiff competition from the canadian pair of max parrot who took silver and the comeback king mark mcmorrisho took bronze. mcmorris really does have one of the game's truly inspirational stories. he fought back from a near fatal accident last march where he feared he wouldn't survive whilst he was waiting for the helicopter to lift him off the mountain to take his place on the podium. and their performances were all the more impressive, given the brutal winds that we've experienced today. the ladies snowboard slopestyle qualification was canceled. and so, too, one of the blue ribbon events of the games, the men tease downhill. the course is a good deal higher than where our studio is here. and the high winds on the slopes forced organizers to reschedule just hours before its start. and that's really, really tough on the skiers who woke up, what for many of them will have been the biggest day of their sporting careers. but those on the alpine circuit, the favorites, are really used to it. norway tweeted downtill canceled due to strong winds. it's imperative with fair conditions and i applaud

stuff but there was another man on the podium who could claim an even greater achievement canada's mark mcmorris managing to win bronze just eleven months after a crash that left him fighting for his life. it's a reminder now to our top stories at this hour chance wrong america has vowed to serve out another full four year term despite being under fire from our own conservatives for making sweeping concessions to form a coalition and hang on the. top officials from south africa's ruling a.n.c. say they are ready to quote finalize the departure of president jacob zuma but zuma has already refused calls to step down is under no constitutional obligation to do so. this is if it is live from berlin we have more of the top of the hour to see that. and. a steady job is there great history. from syria and job veteran afghanistan to see the future. in germany. but the road to the job market is a long and russia one. germany. the dream of a job. in thirty minutes on t w. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word published in the. ricotta is in germany to learn german

jogger upping canada's mark mcmorris won the bronze medal less than a year after he almost died during a training accident the twenty four year old fractured his jaw pelvis and left ruptured his spleen and suffered a collapsed lung their motions are definitely positive today just being here at the olympics is a huge feat for me and being healthy is feel so good once again. dutch speedskating great sven cromwell became the first man to win three golds in the same speed skating event at an olympics the thirty one year old climbing the men's five thousand aces yet again. fans of biathlon was stunned when french dumb martin for cut the world number one missed three of these opening five shots and would finish eighth in the men's ten kilometer sprint no one more stunned than germany's pesah who took home the gold. france didn't finish day two entirely empty handed purina phone won gold in the women's moguls those are just crazy i mean i really realized that just one day you're lame pigs and when you. when you lame to james and there was a pretty great beating. drummer of the day came in the

to canadians rounded off the podium in that event max parrot won silver but it's a story about mark mcmorris that's been grabbing all the headlines this was tweeted out by the official olympic twitter account with the caption anything is possible you see the twenty four year old canadian came back from a near death experience he suffered life threatening injuries in a crash and less than a year later he's won his second a limp dick medal of bronze this tweet was like thousands of times and you know his story has been inspirational for many on social media michael landsberg who runs a charity in canada said this was mcmorris less than a year ago machines kept him alive they literally breathed life into him today he wins an olympic medal and he breathes life into anyone who is struggling to find hope stunning or one of the more popular events in these games is proving to be the biathlon hash tag biathlon has actually been trending on day two eleven gold medals are up for grabs here is peter stehman to talk you through the events. skiing and shooting seems like an unlikely combination for the w

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bronze medalists in the same discipline mark morris an incredible story it is so mcmorris he is a really popular snowboarder he comes from canada and he had a very interesting story to the lead up to this event so he had a really close brush with death about a year ago he went out with his friends and he wanted to film some of his jumps and he ended up crashing into a tree on do you see those pictures yachts him at the hospital she had basically a collapsed lung seventeen broken bones and he fractured his spleen he was put in a medically induced coma and at the end it was a freak accident that's what he called said but he says he's lucky to survive it and he even said after winning the bronze that this he's happy to be alive he's so grateful and that for him winning that bronze today really felt like a goal i guess i can't believe he's back on the slopes of that happens to me i would be if these problems are not fully human there's something else and break first and what else can we look forward to a month so i have a bit of bad news just because the events at have been cancelled pos pos

mark: kevin, it's a week to go until current funding runs out. how are we progressing to a deal towards avoiding another shutdown? kevin: no republican that spoke today, whether it be congressman meadows or mcmorrisogers or senator thune, all saying they do not anticipate they will be headed to a government shutdown. on the flip side of that, i will be quite frank here, i spoke to some aides to fiscal conservatives who are confused on the official schedule of this retreat, there does not appear to be a specific time allocated to addressing like this february 8 deadline of a government shutdown. vonnie: let's get back to the memo for a second, kevin. we're -- we were talking about partisanship. with the state of the union, with the retreats, with the idea we moved on from the type of legislation that was extremely nonpartisan, there was potential there for some bipartisanship. has this gone by the wayside with this memo? kevin: well, i think there is no question this has become a key partisan issue with regards to the memo which democrats, led, of course, by adam schiff, the top democrat on the special select intelligence committee in the house of representatives, really saying there were modifica

mark pre market s&p indicated up 10. nasdaq indicated up 39 points. >> in washington we are taking a look at how tax cuts are taking a cut. kathy mcmorrisgers, republican of washington state and the dare of the house conference i apologize. >> it's long >> i don't know what's happening. it's a lot question for you, this morning, we've had a big conversation over just the past couple days in the markets here about a potential for inflation. a conversation about how tax reform has actually been a short-term stimulus, overstimulate the market what do you make of these markets? >> i'm hopeful, encouraged by the impact of tax reform already. some said it was armageddon. it's reports individuals right now this month that are seeing their paycheck increase, more take-home pay. the long list of companies that have been you know adding those bonuses and announcing more better lead policies and higher wages. i mean, that's a positive. we needed that for our economy and our hope is that this is just the beginning, that it continues. i talked to a number of businesses, small and large, who are still making their plans, but this gives them more conf