Formalized the Canadian cross-country skiers who will participate in the Olympic Games in Sochi

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The Canadian Federation of skiing has officially announced today the athletes who will participate in the Olympic Games in Sochi.

Tuesday 14 January 2014 2 minutes reading time

They will go to Russia six men and five women. Here is the complete list UominiAlex HarveyDevon KershawIvan BabikovGraeme KillickJesse CockneyLen Valjas DonneChandra CrawfordDaria GaiazovaHeidi WidmerEmily NishikawaPerianne Jones The last four athletes, Killick, Cockney, Widmer and Nishikawa, they grabbed the Trials qualifier played in the last week in Canmore, while the other seven were already sure of the place based on the results obtained in the last two years in the World Cup. These are the words of Tom Holland, the team's technical director: "This is a team that will fight for the medals. The group consists of talented athletes already able to get on the podium of the World Cup and determined to do more important occasion " These statements instead of Devon Kershaw, a veteran of the team: "Our girls have the desire to win another gold medal at the games (they got Beckie Scott in Salt Lake City and Turin Chandra Crawford, Ed), while us guys will do everything to win for the first time an Olympic medal for our country. " "Our distance runners have trained hard with the utmost dedication to be in top form at Sochi." So concluded the ceremony Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Jacopo Barbieri

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