CALGARY – Olympic champions Brady Leman and Marielle Thompson will headline the Canadian ski cross team at the Beijing Olympics.
Leman won gold four years ago in Pyeongchang, while Thompson triumphed in 2014 in Sochi.
Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, silver medalist in Pyeongchang, is also part of the Canadian team announced Friday.
“It’s amazing to be back at the Olympics for the third time,” said Phelan, who suffered a season-ending injury in 2020. “It’s been a long recovery to come back here. The Olympics are special, they only happen every four years and the whole year before that has to go well. »
Canada has won gold in women’s ski cross at every Games since the event made its debut in 2010 in Vancouver.
The ski cross team enters the Games after a strong performance in Nakiska, Alta., last week, where it won one gold and two silvers.
Broderick Thompson, who won bronze at the first super-G World Cup this season, and Marie-Michèle Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Ali Nullmeyer and Jack Crawford, who all finished in the top five at the Coupe du world this season, are the headliners of the alpine team.
Valérie Grenier, from St-Isidore, and Laurence St-Germain, from St-Ferréol-les-Neiges, are also part of the team.
Canada has 11 Olympic medals in alpine skiing, the most recent being a bronze in the men’s super-G at Sochi 2014.
The alpine events will take place from February 6 to 19 at the Yanqing Alpine Ski Center. The skicross events will take place on February 17 and 18 at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.
Alpine team :
Jack Crawford, Toronto; Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Lake Etchemin; Cassidy Gray, Invermere, BC; Valerie Grenier, St-Isidore, Ont.; Ali Nullmeyer, Toronto; Erin Mielzynski, Collingwood, Ont.; Trevor Philp, Calgary; Erik Read, Canmore, Alta.; Roni Remme, Collingwood, Ont.; Brodie Seger, North Vancouver, BC; Amelia Smart, Invermere, BC; Laurence St-Germain, Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges; Broderick Thompson, Whistler, BC
