Maelle Ricker officially now part of the Olympic snowboard team.

Written by admin on January 25th, 2010

Re posted from MetroNews Vancouver

Canada opts for mix of experience, youth on Olympic snowboarding team

January 25, 2010 12:35 p.m.

QUEBEC – Canada has unveiled its 18-member Olympic snowboard team.

Canada's Jasey Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant Que. races to a bronze medal

Canada's Jasey Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant Que. races to a bronze medal

Team Canada director Christian Hrab says the athletes were nominated based on their hard work and results over the last year.

Canada will have a mix of experience and youth in each of the three snowboarding disciplines at next month’s Vancouver Winter Games

Maelle Ricker, Dominique Maltais, Robert Fagan, Francois Boivin, Mike Robertson and Drew Neilson will wear the Maple Leaf in snowboard cross.

Jasey-Jay Anderson, Matthew Morison, Michael Lambert, Alexa Loo, Caroline Calve and Kimiko Zakreski will represent Canada in the parallel giant slalom.

Sarah Conrad, Mercedes Nicoll, Palmer Taylor, Jeff Batchelor, Justin Lamoureux and Brad Martin will compete in the halfpipe.

News from ©The Canadian Press, 2010

 

1 Comments so far ↓

  1. melissa says:

    maelle please tell me where you train and what you do while training and for how long im doing a school project on you and i want to say great job winning that gold medal you deserve it!! please tell me please!!

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