FOG BLOG SPORTS LOG: CANADA'S VALERIE GRENIER WINS GIANT SLALOM GOLD IN SLOVENIA!

'It's a dream come true': Canada's Valérie Grenier wins giant slalom gold in Slovenia! St. Isidore, Ont. native snaps Mikaela Shiffrin's 5-race win streak Canada's Valérie Grenier skied her way to the top of a World Cup podium for the first time in her career at a giant slalom event in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Saturday.

Grenier, of St. Isidore, Ont., finished in a two-run combined time of one minute 55.01 seconds for her first-ever World Cup medal.

"I still can't believe it," Grenier said in a post-race interview. "It's a dream come true, I've been wanting this for so long I'm going to cry I'm so happy."

The 26-year-old is the first Canadian winner of a women's World Cup giant slalom race since Kathy Kreiner won in Pronften, Germany, in 1974.