Canada’s Eliot Grondin takes silver by a sliver in snowboard cross thriller

Canada’s Eliot Grondin won a silver medal in men’s snowboard cross on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics, falling just short of gold in a dramatic big final.

Three-time reigning World Cup champion Alessandro Haemmerle beat out Grondin in a photo finish, with the Austrian crossing the line two hundredths of a second ahead of the Canadian.