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Olympic wake-up call: O'Dine overcomes a snowboard to the head for 2nd medal

Sometimes, life knocks you down with a snowboard. Luckily for Canada, Meryeta O'Dine knows just what to do when that happens.

O'Dine was knocked to the snow in the final of the mixed snowboard cross event, when Italy's Caterina Carpano landed on the Canadian after flying off a jump.

The 24-year-old from Prince George, B.C., quickly got up, hopped up the next jump and got back on course to finish the race, winning a bronze medal with teammate Éliot Grondin on Saturday.

It's Canada's eighth bronze medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, and the country's 13th medal overall.

To relieve O'Dine and Grondin's bronze medal-winning race, or anything else you missed overnight, you can watch full replays of all Olympic events here.

WATCH | A snowboarder landed on her head, nevertheless, Canada's O'Dine persisted:

Canadians pseed skater Laurent Dubreuil narrowly missed the Olympic podium in the men's 500 metres by three-hundredths of a second, finishing in fourth place.

It's the first time the Levis, Que., native has missed the podium at that distance all season.

"I won't lie, I'm absolutely disappointed. I came here to win a medal and to be only three hundredths off the podium, it's a tough day for me at the office," he told CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis after the race.

Calgary's Gilmore Junio, competing in his third Olympics, finished in 21st. Olympic rookie Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu from Sherbrooke, Que., finished 29th.

WATCH | Dubreuil misses podium in men's 500m:

Max Parrot says he's received an apology from teammate Mark McMorris, after the latter Canadian criticized the judging in the slopestyle competition — in which Parrot won gold.

Parrot said there were no hard feelings over McMorris' comments.

"He actually came to

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