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World champions Jack Crawford, Laurence St-Germain and Marielle Thompson lead Canada’s alpine ski team into the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
Alpine Canada has announced the 20 athletes who will compete in downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, team alpine combined and ski cross.
The 2026 Winter Olympics officially open Feb. 6 with men’s downhill the following day on Bormio’s Stelvio slope.
Toronto’s Crawford won a super-G world championship and St-Germain captured a women’s slalom world title in 2023.
Ski cross racers Thompson of Whistler, B.C., and Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, Que., will both represent Canada in a fourth Olympic Games.
Thompson won Olympic gold in 2018 and silver in 2022 as well as a world championship in 2019. Phelan earned Olympic silver in 2018.
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