Skiing

VAL D’ISERE, France (AP) — A promising 18-year-old French skier has died in training, the national ski federation said. It said Margot Simond died on Thursday at Val d’Isere.

MILAN (AP) — Italian skier Federica Brignone’s first aim is to walk again before she begins to even think of competing in next year’s home Olympics.

MILAN (AP) — Overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, five days after breaking multiple bones in her left leg in a giant slalom crash and undergoing surgery .

BEAUPRÉ — Canada's Eliot Grondin struck World Cup gold in men's snowboard cross to wrap up the season at Mont-Sainte-Anne on Sunday. France's Aidan Chollet and Loan Bozzolo grabbed silver and bronze, respectively. Grondin, from Sainte-Marie, Que.

MILAN (AP) — Overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone was still smiling Friday despite the very real possibility that her Olympic dream could be over.

It was meant to be a celebratory final week of competition in the best season of her career.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — American Kaila Kuhn became the first competitor to win two aerials gold medals in a single edition of the world freestyle and snowboard championships on Sunday.

IDRE FJÄLL — Reece Howden won his seventh ski cross World Cup of the season on Sunday to earn the third Crystal Globe of his career and help Canada to its fourth consecutive Nations Cup.

ENGADIN, SWITZERLAND — Canada's Cassie Sharpe is back on the podium at the freeski halfpipe world championship. Sharpe, from Comox, B.C., edged out teammate Rachael Karker of Erin, Ont., to earn bronze on Sunday.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — American snowboarder Chloe Kim and Australia's Scotty James won the halfpipe gold medals at the world championships on Saturday. Kim scored 93.