What to watch this weekend in winter Olympic sports

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Here's the latest from the world championships in figure skating, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, plus a quick preview of the men's curling worlds.

Freestyle skiing and snowboarding: Grondin on top of the world

Éliot Grondin captured Canada's third gold and seventh overall medal of the freestyle ski and snowboard world championships in Switzerland today, winning the men's snowboard cross final with a decisive move late in the race.

Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle and Jakob Dusek appeared to be working together to box out Grondin in the four-man final. But it backfired when the Austrians made contact with each other going into a bend, forcing them too wide. Grondin seized the opportunity, passing them on the inside and holding the lead through the finish line for his first world title.

It's the second world-championship medal for the 23-year-old Grondin, who took bronze in 2021 before winning a pair of Olympic medals in 2022 — silver in the men's event, bronze in the mixed doubles. He won the World Cup title last year and is leading the chase again with one stop left in the season. That's next week at Quebec's Mont-Sainte-Anne.

Canada's Meryeta O'Dine came close to her first worlds podium today, finishing fourth in the women's final. She was also a double Olympic medallist in 2022, taking bronze in the women's event and another bronze in the mixed with Grondin.

The team event at the worlds takes place Saturday at 6 a.m. ET. Also on tap for the closing weekend are the medal rounds in aerials, ski big air, and ski and snowboard halfpipe. 

Canada won four medals in these