Canadian Laurie Blouin wins slopestyle gold at world championships
Hours after winning the gold medal in slopestyle at the freestyle world championships, Canadian snowboarder Laurie Blouin still couldn’t believe it.
“It feels good but I haven’t fully realized it yet,” the 20-year-old Stoneham, Que., native said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press on Saturday after scoring 78 points in Sierra Nevada, Spain, for her first world title. “I’ve realized it, but I haven’t. It feels weird.
“It was a hard call, I knew it was a good run but I wasn’t expecting anything.”
Zoi Sadowski Synnott of Australia was second with 77.5 points while Japan’s Miyabi Onitsuka took bronze with 77.4. Canadian Booke Voigt was seventh.