Canada has won another snowboarding medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Eliot Grondin (Sainte-Marie, QC) and Meryeta O’Dine (Prince George, BC) claimed bronze for Canada in mixed team snowboard cross, an event that is making its Winter Olympic debut.
It’s the second medal won at Beijing 2022 for each of them.
🥉 BRONZE FOR CANADA 🥉
Éliot Grondin and Meryeta O'Dine race to a bronze medal in the debut of mixed team snowboard cross 🚨 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/oVsU6x0DIz
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 12, 2022
Grodin (silver) and O’Dine (bronze) won medals in respective individual competitions earlier in the week. They join Max Parrot (slopestyle gold) and Mark McMorris (slopestyle bronze) as Canadian snowboarders to win an Olympic medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics so far.
USA’s Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis won gold, finishing 0.20 seconds ahead of Omar Visintin and Michela Moioli of Italy for silver.
Canada finished a full 23 seconds after the silver medal winners, after a crash involving O’Dine and Caterina Carpano, from a second Italian team. Carpano and Lorenzo Sommariva finished fourth.
CLOSER LOOK 👀
What a scary collision, it appears Caterina Carpano 🇮🇹 accidentally comes down on the back of Meryeta O'Dine 🇨🇦
The Canadian was able to get back up and finish the race to win bronze 🥉
👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/GjAHLxgqDI— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 12, 2022