Meryeta O’Dine won Canada’s seventh medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games on Wednesday, picking up a bronze in the women’s snowboard cross final at the Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium in Zhangjiakou, China.
The 24-year-old became the first Canadian to medal in the event since Dominique Maltais won silver in Sochi in 2014.
American Lindsey Jacobellis won her long-eluded gold medal in the event, after years of Olympic heartbreak beginning with her crash on the penultimate jump at the 2006 Games in Torino.
It was O’Dine’s second time on the Olympic team, but only the first competitiuon she was able to
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