Canadian athletes to watch for at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

摘要

The Canadian team will be 55 athletes strong. It will be the largest team to ever represent Canada and the first to do so on home soil since 1976. The members of the Canadian Paralympic Team will not be named until just before the Games. However, here are just a few of Canada's top athletes with a disability to keep an eye out for: PARA-ALPINE SKIING: JOSH DUECK Josh Dueck's passion for skiing began in the mountains of British Columbia, at the age of 13, where he dreamed of representing Canada as an international athlete. Following an accident in 2004, Josh's love for the mountains led him to sit-skiing and he is now about to fulfill his dream by representing Canada as a Para-Alpine skier. Josh won his first international gold medal at a World Cup race in 2009 in Korea, and capped the season by repeating the feat a week later in Whistler, B.C., on the same course that he hopes to race on at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. Josh is a member of Canada's successful Para-Alpine Ski Team who finished the 2008/2009 season number one in the world and have their sights set on gold for 2010.