Canada's Cassie Sharpe won gold at the first FIS freestyle World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women's snowboard halfpipe. Sharpe, from Calgary, had 91.00 points, edging out Kelly Sildaru of Estonia who had 90.20. "I am really happy to come away from this first event of the season with a victory," said Sharpe, who won the World Cup in Tignes last March. American Alex Ferreira took gold with 93.40 points and France's Kevin Rolland was second with 90.20 points. I want to keep on skiing well and I expect to have a good season."

Source: CBC News September 01, 2017 23:03 UTC