Looking For Inspiration?

Listen to what Canada's first lady of skiing Nancy Greene says about joining a ski club.......

 Now that you've heard that, take a look at this clip of our youngest 4&5 year olds showing their stuff on the slopes this past winter with coach Aileen.

Go get ‘em, Tiger (from www.ctvolympics.ca)

As a young skier in Canada, it is impossible not to know of Nancy "Tiger" Greene. Her shining moment was cemented forever in Canadian culture at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble.

It was Greene's final Olympic Games, and after finishing tenth in the downhill and narrowly missing out on a gold medal in the slalom, only the giant slalom remained for her. Greene skied the run of her life and turned to check her time at the finish to discover the clock was still running!

Thinking the time for her phenomenal run had been missed, Greene anxiously waited until the problem was corrected, and her time was announced. Greene had bested the next fastest skier by 2.64 seconds, an eternity in a sport where winners are typically determined by hundredths of a second.

With her silver and gold medals, Greene was single-handedly responsible for two thirds of the Canadian medal haul at the Grenoble Games. She would also be the second Canadian skier to ever win Olympic gold.

For Greene, this event was to be her last Olympic performance, but it set the stage for young skiers across Canada. The Nancy Greene Ski League is home to young Canadians starting out in ski racing. For all of her work in skiing, Greene was named Canada's female athlete of the 20th century in 1999.

Check out Nancy Greene's web site.