Canada's Kevin Drury battled his way to a gold medal that left him in tears at a World Cup ski cross event on Friday in Val Thorens, France.

Drury found himself fourth at the start of the big final before taking an aggressive line into the first negative turn on the course, vaulting into a lead that he would not surrender.

"I actually don't really know what happened there. I just knew I was in fourth, so I was gonna set up that negative [turn] and try to carry as much speed as possible into that jump," the Toronto native said after the race.

"I'm guessing they all kind of made little mistakes and I flew past them, so, again, [a] little bit of luck with ski cross, but I feel like I'm pretty good at reading the play in front of me, and making the right decisions, and I think I just did th

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