Canada’s Eliot Grondin wins World Cup snowboard cross gold

Canada’s Eliot Grondin snags 1st snowboard cross podium at worlds

« In my first heat, I almost didn’t make it, it was super tight, but after that I figured out my strategy for the race and then I knew that I could win the start in the big final and let people pass me. And that’s what I did.

« Alessandro [Haemmerle] passed me and then also Lorenzo [Sommariva], and for me it was the perfect situation to draft and pass for the finish. »