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Maelle Ricker: No Retirement in Sight

Post Author: Lori Braun Posted on: April 10, 2010 at 3:19 pm
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Olymipc Gold Medalist Maelle Ricker has finally made up her mind about retiring from snowboarding.

“Before the Games, I was always asked ‘Are you going to retire after the Games? Are you going to retire after the Games? I was like ‘I don’t know.’ I sort of shrugged it off. Now the answer to me is very obvious: Yes, I am going to continue. I’m not going to stop because of the results. I’m going to continue because I absolutely love the process of everything that happened before the Games and travelling with my team and doing the training and feeling like I’m still progressing on my snowboard.”

She certainally hasn’t slowed down since the Olympics! She won the Crystal Globe as the World Cup champion in snowboard cross and the overall women’s Crystal Globe for collecting the most World Cup points of any female snowboarder. This past weekend, she defended her Canadian snowboard cross title.

Maelle Ricker’s Bionic Journey

Post Author: Lori Braun Posted on: February 18, 2010 at 6:45 pm
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Prior to winning Olympic gold medal for snowboard cross, Maelle Ricker’s knees have been through eight surgeries-three on the left and five on the right. Maelle, who is 31-years-old, has contributed to the emergence of women’s snowboard cross. At 19-years-old she helped usher snowboarding into the Olympics at the Nagano Games where she came in 5th in the half-pipe event. She was unable to compete in the 2002 games due to knee problems, and in the 2006 games she crashed early in the snowboard cross final, landing hard on her back and suffering a concussion. Now, 12-years later, she has the gold she set out for so many years ago.

Curling Without Weights

Post Author: Lori Braun Posted on: February 16, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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Ever since curling has become an Olympic sport, I have been less than intrigued. In fact, the only thing that does intrigue me is how does it receive so much attention? I’m sure it takes a level of talent and practice but it is missing something for me to care about it at all. It is such a ‘non-threatening’ sport that Canada has a women on their team who is 5-months pregnant, Kristie Moore (pictured above right with teammate Cheryl Bernard). You sure would see a pregnant women in the luge or figure skating or hockey!

I think we can think of a way to make it a bit more challenging. How about if the other team is allowed to ‘check’ the other team during each run…or maybe the playing area is lined with various traps or obstacles!