Canada's Grondin wins snowboard cross gold after securing season title in Quebec

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Éliot Grondin didn't fto up, defeating Frenchman Aidan Chollet in Sunday's large last astir 24 hours aft clinching the wide World Cup men's snowboard transverse play rubric successful Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que.

Victory connected location snowfall is 23-year-old's 3rd of World Cup campaign

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· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 12:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Éliot Grondin of Sainte-Marie Que., celebrates his second-place decorativeness successful the large last astatine a snowboard transverse World Cup lawsuit successful Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec connected April 5, 2025.

Éliot Grondin didn't fto up aft securing the men's snowboard transverse wide World Cup play title.

About 24 hours later, the Sainte-Marie, Que., autochthonal defeated Frenchman Aidan Chollet in the large last connected location snowfall astatine Mont-Sainte-Anne connected Sunday.

Loan Bozzolo, Chollet's teammate, placed 3rd successful the last World Cup lawsuit of the season

Grondin has back-to-back Crystal Globe wins connected the World Cup circuit, and it comes a week aft he won satellite title golden successful Switzerland.

The 23-year-old needed a top-three decorativeness successful Saturday's lawsuit to assertion the Crystal Globe and followed done with a nonaccomplishment successful the large last to Austria's Jakob Dusek.

Grondin won three golden medals, 3 metallic and a bronze on the World Cup circuit this season.

WATCH | Grondin sits down successful Switzerland to speech snowboarding success:

Éliot Grondin sits down successful Switzerland to speech snowboarding success

The two-time Olympic snowboarder tells CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis astir what the enactment of his assemblage means to him and how he mislaid the golden medal astatine Beijing 2022 by a 'photo finish.'

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