Fort St. John native Denny Morrison was hospitalized in Utah, telling his Twitter followers that he had a stroke.

The 30-year-old Olympic gold medallist stated last evening that he been mountain biking 800 miles across Arizona.

It came nearly a year after he was hospitalized following a serious motorcycle accident.

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Morrison, who was born in Chetwynd, won gold in team pursuit at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. He's also a two-time gold medallist in the 1500 metres at the world championships.

At the Sochi Winter Games in 2014, his teammate, Gilbert Junio, stepped aside so that he could compete in the 1,000-metre race. Morrison went on to win a silver medal. He also won bronze in the 1500-metre race in Sochi.

"We're all diamonds in the rough, right?" Morrison said during a speaking engagement in Vancouver in 2014. "We need to be honed and polished to become these perfect, flawless, prime, pristine, clear, sharp objects that we want to be on the ice when we skate. If not for this new group and this new attitude, I don't think I ever would have ever become world champ in 2012 and been able to deal with some of the setbacks leading into Sochi."

In May 2015, he had a steel rod implanted in his leg after the motorcycle accident.