There is no shortage of spectacle at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. From teenagers managing to beat their idols, athletes beating terminal disease, and going for gold, the Olympics have stories that will live on forever.

The world saw another heroic feat of bravery today when Canadian snowboarder Meryeta O’Dine took to the snow in her mixed team snowboard cross event. O’Dine was one of four contestants, and with her partner Eliot Grondin having done his part, the medal was hers to bring home.

However, things went shockingly wrong, when O’Dine took a snowboard to the head! Here’s what happened at the snowboarding mixed team cross at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

Meryeta O’Dine knew the snowboard would crash into her

As O’Dine began her slide through the snow next to three competitors, everyone seemed to be doing well. Then, things went wrong near the end for Meryeta O’Dine and her Italian rival, Caterina Carpano.

As O’Dine was headed on the downward slope, Carpano had taken to the air inches behind her. This could only have ended one way, and it did. Caterina Carpano’s snowboard landed straight on top of O’Dine, causing both of them to crash into the snow.

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In fact, O’Dine knew what was going to happen seconds before it did. “I saw Caterina’s board going up, and I was heading down,” O’Dine later stated. “I was like, ‘okay, I’m about to get landed on’,” she described.

“We had no idea what was going on,” her partner Eliot Grondin said. “Didn’t know if she was okay, didn’t know anything. I was just waiting and hoping,” O’Dine’s mixed snowboard partner described how things looked and felt from the bottom, where the men were waiting.

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Nevertheless, showing amazing resilience, Meryeta O’Dine got off the snow and hopped her way up towards the podium! As everyone watched in amazement, O’Dine slowly began taking small jumps towards the next slope, before then sliding down again to cement third place.

Consequently, Meryeta O’Dine and Eliot Grondin of Canada won the bronze medal at the event.

The Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 are all about resilience

Having a snowboard land on her back mid-way through the competition was not enough to stop 24-year-old Meryeta O’Dine from her Olympic medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

“You don’t want to just let a fall stop you,” O’Dine said. “I just instantly got up and started hiking up the jump to try and get on the podium,” the Olympic bronze medalist described.

Even her partner, Eliot Grondin, was amazed and happy. “I saw her jump into the finish line, I was like ‘we did it’,” he expressed, as the two smiled proudly over their bronze medals.

This was Canada’s thirteenth Olympic medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. Moreover, this was also the country’s first time in the mixed snowboard cross event. Not bad for a debut, is that?

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