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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eddie Pells

US snowboarder Jake Canter wins Olympic bronze after almost dying in freak trampoline accident

Jake Canter won Olympic bronze in snowboarding - (Getty Images)

Doctors had unequivocally advised 13-year-old Jake Canter that he should never again set foot on a snowboard.

Yet, nine years later, the 22-year-old American rider defied those medical warnings, securing an Olympic bronze medal in slopestyle, a trick-laden descent down the mountain.

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