Canadas Dominique Maltais won the silver medal in the Olympic womens snowboard cross event in Sochi on Sunday.
Eddie Lacy Packers Jersey . Its the second Olympic podium for Maltais, a native of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Que., who
was the bronze medallist at the 2006 Turin Olympics. "In the final I just wanted
to go full on," said Maltais. "Today was my day. Im so so happy its done and I
made it and I finished on the podium." In 2010, Maltais crashed during her final
Olympic training run, failed to advance past the elimination stage and finished
in 20th place. "Its a good revenge for Vancouver," said Maltais "I wanted to
prove to the world that I could do better than in Vancouver. I wanted to enjoy
everything, especially this one as I knew it will be the last one. I never tried
so hard as I did for this." Canada now has 14 medals at the Games. Earlier in
the day, alpine skier Jan Hudec took bronze in the mens super-G. Eva Samkova,
20, of the Czech Republic won the womens snowboard cross gold in her first
Olympic Games. The win marked the Czechs first ever Olympic medal in
snowboarding. Chloe Trespeuch of France, also making her Olympic debut, took the
bronze. "I just wanted to be confident with myself," said Samkova. "I couldnt
imagine this - it was very fortunate for me." Samkova, known for competing with
a mustache drawn on her face, chose red, white and blue for Sundays race. "Its a
lucky moustache. Today its in national colours." Reigning Olympic champion
Maëlle Ricker of Squamish, B.C., crashed in her quarter-final heat and finished
21st. "I was off rhythm today right out of the gate," said Ricker. "Im half
proud of my effort and half disappointed and shocked." The 35-year-old snowboard
suffered a compounded fracture in her left forearm while training in Aspen,
Colo,. and underwent surgery less than three weeks ago. "I just want to say that
Im really proud of our Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Snowboard for
everything theyve done to help get me back in the gate today," she said.
"Without them this definitely wouldnt be possible and all the support from all
Canadians as well - everybody had my back. Im sorry." Medal favourite Lindsey
Jacobellis of the U.S. went down in the semifinal and won the small final to
finish seventh. Two other snowboarders were also hurt in qualifying crashes.
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assignment. Booth, 28, has missed the last four games with a lower body injury
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