Snowboard star Huw Nightingale pinpoints positives after memorable Winter Olympic debut
Bolton snowboard star Huw Nightingale is eager to build upon his first experience at the Olympics after bowing out in the quarter-finals.
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Olympic wake-up call: Grondin slides into silver, Crawford makes Canadian alpine history
Éliot Grondin won Canada's 10th medal of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games on Thursday, capturing silver in the men's snowboard cross.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Alessandro Haemmerle beats Eliot Grondin in dramatic photo finish for snowboard cross gold
Alessandro Haemmerle lived up to his billing as favourite for the Winter Olympics snowboard cross title in Beijing — but only by a whisker. The three-time crystal globe winner and world silver medallist led Eliot Grondin for most of the race, but a photo finish was needed to confirm the Austrian as the winner.
Snowboarding-Austria's Haemmerle wins men's snowboard cross gold
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle won gold at the men's snowboard cross final on Thursday at the Beijing Games, narrowly finishing ahead of Canadian Eliot Grondin in a neck-and-neck final race.
Canada's Éliot Grondin snags silver medal in snowboard cross photo finish
Canada's Éliot Grondin surged to snowboard-cross silver on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics.
Winter Olympics 2022 day six: snowboard cross, curling and more – live!
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Medals update: Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle nabs gold in men’s snowboard cross after wild-style big final
The men’s snowboard cross big final here at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 delivered a new champion and the topsy-turvy unpredictability the discipline has become known – and beloved – for since making its Olympic debut in Torino in 2006.