FILE PHOTO: Medals Ceremony - Snowboarding - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's Snowboard Cross - Medals Plaza - Pyeongchang, South Korea - February 15, 2018 - Silver medalist Jarryd Hughes of Australia on the podium. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Having already battled back from six knee surgeries, determined Australian snowboarder Jarryd Hughes has no intention of letting an ankle injury derail his bid for another Olympic medal at the Beijing Winter Games.
Hughes, who won silver in the snowboard cross at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, had to go under the knife yet again during the Australian winter after suffering a nasty fall when training at the Thredbo ski-fields.
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