Canada's Meryeta O'Dine and Eliot Grondin celebrate their bronze medal in mixed team snowboard cross at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick)

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Canada claims bronze in chaotic mixed team snowboard cross final

Feb 12, 2022 | 3:09 PM

Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine regained her composure — and her footing — to help Canada win its 13th medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday.

The product of Prince George, B.C., was knocked to the ground in the mixed team snowboard cross big final after Italy’s Caterina Carpano soared over a jump and landed on the Canadian’s back.

O’Dine scrambled to her feet and got to the finish line before Carpano, giving O’Dine and teammate Eliot Grondin (Sainte-Marie, Que.) the bronze medal in the event’s Olympic debut.

It was the second medal of the Games for both Canadians. Grondin won silver in the men’s snowboard cross and O’Dine earned a bronze in the women’s final.

Canada has one gold, four silver and eight bronze medals at the Games and is tied with the Russian team in total medals. Only Norway (17), Germany (14) and Austria (14) have more.

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The Canada 2 team of Liam Moffatt (Truro, N.S.) and Tess Critchlow (Big White, B.C.) finished third in their quarterfinal and didn’t advance to the final.

Regina’s Mark McMorris will be in the field in the men’s Big Air competition, which is to begin with qualification late Sunday. The Big Air final is to start late Monday night.

Long-track speed skating: Laurent Dubreuil (Levis, Que.) missed a medal by 0.03 seconds in the men’s 500-metre final.

Dubreuil had a time of 34.52 seconds; Japan’s Wataru Morishige won the bronze in 34.49.

Gilmore Junio (Calgary) finished 21st and Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu (Sherbrooke, Que.) was 29th.

Hockey: Canada’s men’s squad lost 4-2 to the U.S. to fall to 1-1 in round-robin action.

Mat Robinson (Calgary) and Corban Knight (Oliver, B.C.) scored for Canada. Prince Albert’s Adam Cracknell didn’t figure in the scoring.

The Canadians are to play China in their final round-robin game Sunday morning.

Canada’s women’s team is to face Switzerland in a semifinal Sunday night.

Curling: Sweden got the better of Canada in both men’s and women’s action Saturday.

In men’s round-robin play, Niklas Eden scored one in the ninth end to take a 6-4 lead and then stole one in the 10th to complete a 7-4 victory over Brad Gushue. It was Canada’s second straight loss.

Gushue (St. John’s, N.L.), Mark Nichols (St. John’s, N.L.), Brett Gallant (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) and Geoff Walker (Edmonton) take a 2-2 record into Saturday evening’s game against the United States.

On the women’s side, Canada’s Jennifer Jones fell to 1-2 after a 7-6 loss to Anna Hasselborg.

Jones (Winnipeg), Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg), Jocelyn Peterman (Red Deer) and Dawn McEwen (Winnipeg) are to face Switzerland early Sunday morning and the Russian team Sunday evening.

Biathlon: In the men’s 10-kilometre sprint, Christian Gow (Calgary) finished 12th.

Jules Burnotte (Sherbrooke, Que.) was 29th, with Scott Gow (Calgary) 34th and Adam Runnalls (Calgary) 35th.

Cross-country skiing: Canada finished ninth in the women’s 4x5km relay.

Figure skating: Piper Gilles (Toronto) and Paul Poirier (Unionville, Ont.) were sixth in the rhythm dance as the ice dance competition got underway.

Laurence Fournier-Beaudry (Greenfield Park, Que.) and Nikolaj Soerensen (Montreal) were eighth and Marjorie Lajoie (Boucherville, Que.) and Zachary Lagha (St-Hubert, Que.) were 13th.

The free dance is set for Sunday evening.

Skeleton: Mirela Rahneva (Ottawa) finished fifth in the women’s final. Jane Channell (Calgary) was 17th.

Ski jumping: Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes (Calgary) finished 33rd and Matthew Soukup (Calgary) was 49th in qualifying. Neither advanced to the men’s large hill individual final.