{"id":252545,"date":"2026-01-22T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:53:08","slug":"canadian-snowboard-cross-halfpipe-and-parallel-giant-slalom-teams-announced-for-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252545\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian snowboard cross, halfpipe and parallel giant slalom teams announced for Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic Winter Games\u00a0Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>\u00a0will bring together some of Canada&#8217;s most celebrated Olympians, and that&#8217;s no different in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/sports\/snowboard\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snowboard<\/a>\u00a0cross, halfpipe and parallel giant slalom.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic medallists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/eliot-grondin\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c9liot Grondin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/meryeta-odine\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meryeta O\u2019Dine<\/a> will lead Canada\u2019s snowboard cross squad at Milano Cortina 2026, while the young talents like Felicity\u00a0Geremia\u00a0will battle for gold in\u00a0halfpipe.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u00a0will arrive in Italy with strong momentum and medal potential across multiple events.<\/p>\n<p>Grondin, the reigning men\u2019s snowboard cross world champion and two-time World Cup Crystal Globe winner from Sainte-Marie, Que., expressed his gratefulness for the opportunity to wear the maple leaf once more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honoured to be named to the Canadian team for the third time in my career,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olympic.ca\/press\/canadian-olympic-snowboard-cross-halfpipe-and-parallel-giant-slalom-teams-announced-for-milano-cortina-2026\/?utm_source=ENGLISH+MEDIA&amp;utm_campaign=a2ef6f20b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_22_04_42&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2486048043-a2ef6f20b8-309306477\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Canadian Olympic Committee<\/a>. \u201cIt is always a privilege to wear Canada\u2019s colours at the Olympic Games when all eyes are on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident in my ability to perform well at these Games, but my primary goal is to enjoy the moment and have fun on each of my runs,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I know that if I do that, I have a good chance of winning a medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snowboard competitions at Milano Cortina 2026 will run from 5-18 February at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/venues\/livigno-snow-park\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Livigno Snow Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Olympic Winter Games\u00a0Milano Cortina 2026\u00a0will bring together some of Canada&#8217;s most celebrated Olympians, and that&#8217;s no different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-252545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}