Beijing 2022, attention to Canada: from Grenier to Nullmeyer to Crawford, ready to amaze

Alpine Skiing: All news

Beijing 2022: All news

The calls of the 13 athletes who will take part in the Olympic Games are official: in the slalom many interesting girls (with the veteran Mielzynski, in the fourth participation in five circles) and a Valérie Grenier capable of everything between giant, super-g and combined. And even the sprinters of the men's team could sign the coup.

Friday 21 January 2022 4 minutes reading time

A Canada to keep an eye on, for an Olympic review in Beijing 2022 that will see 13 athletes from the North American country protagonists in alpine skiing competitions. After Norway and Germany, another important nation has announced the names of the squads for the Games starting on February 4th. Full quota (with Canada which acquired one of the most coveted quotas for the men's sector this week) and eight women at the start, including veterans and young people who pause. Erin Mielzynski, in her fourth Olympics, will play the slalom, and probably the team event, alongside two athletes in great condition like Ali Nullmeyer, amazing sixth in Kranjska Gora and fighting for the podium until the exit in the 2nd heat of the last race in Schladming, and Amelia Smart, with Laurence St-Germain (who is not having a great season, but is the only one in the world top 15) to complete a quartet capable of surprising. In giant the reference will be Valérie Grenier, one step away from the first podium (fourth, just 7 cents from Bassino) in Kranjska Gora and undisputed talent, so much so that from a very young age she was sixth in the combined PyeongChang. He can also do very well in super-g and precisely in combined, where certainly there will be Roni Remme, with 21-year-old Cassidy Gray who completes the team together with the "captain" Marie-Michele Gagnon, head of Team Canada in speed (and despite having abandoned slalom, not to be underestimated in combined) and his third participation in five circles. Five men engaged on the Chinese snow, but in this case the balance is instead shifted to the fast races; James Crawford has grown a lot, who can consider himself a luxury outsider for the super-g, but probably also downhill if we think that today in Kitzbuehel he finished sixth. With him Broderick Thompson, who after the sensational podium in Beaver Creek did not repeat himself at certain levels but guarantees experience, another talent like Brodie Seger and, to be played between giant, slalom and combined (and the team event), Erik Read and Trevor Philp.

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