It was a huge day for Canada on home snow in Blue Mountain, Ontario with Canada closing out the day with double first-place finishes, a second-place, two Crystal Globes and a Rookie of the Year. Included in those wins was Whistler’s Marielle Thompson, won Sunday’s Audi FIS World Cup Finals, supported by Mackenzie Investments race,…
Alpine Canada’s Marielle Thompson claimed the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup Cross Alps Tour women’s title, finishing as the overall tour leader following six races over 14 days. The tour wrapped up on Thursday with the second of two races held at the Innichen track in Italy. In the final day of competition, Thompson…
Canadian skicross star Marielle Thompson capped her dream season in style Sunday by winning her second career Crystal Globe. Thompson, who won Olympic gold last month at the Sochi Games, edged Fanny Smith of Switzerland to win the final World Cup of the season in La Plagne, France, and the overall title. “Once I was…
Whistler, BC – With a little over a week to go before the start of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and just more than five weeks until the Paralympic Games, the people of Whistler gathered to celebrate the outstanding group of Sochi-bound athletes, coaches and mission staff who live and/or train in British Columbia. The…