/CNW/ - A team of 11 talented and determined racers, including two guides, are set to compete for Canada in Para alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic.
Donna Spencer
Mollie Jepsen of Canada competes in the women s super-G, standing, at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Sunday, March 11, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Lee Jin-man February 11, 2021 - 7:26 AM
Mollie Jepsen feels a pang knowing the world alpine ski championships are underway in Italy.
The world para snow sports championship would have also started this week in Lillehammer, Norway.
Jepsen, a Paralympic alpine ski champion from Whistler, B.C., has not and will not race internationally this winter.
Norway s world para snow sport championship would have combined alpine and cross-country skiing, biathlon and snowboarding into one event for the first time.
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Super-G gave France s Manoel Bourdenx his first ever World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup medal at Sakhalin 2020 in Russia ⒸYuri Kim/Sakhalin 2020 LOCBy Lena Smirnova | For World Para Snow Sports
Last February French standing skier Manoel Bourdenx climbed onto the super-G podium after winning his first ever medal - a bronze - at the World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup.
The emotion and pride were clearly etched on the skier’s face as the French tricolour billowed on the screen behind him and his teammates shouted their encouragement from the stands.
Now, for the first time since that winter day, Bourdenx will have the chance to do a speed race at the World Cup level as Saalbach, Austria hosts two downhill and two super-G races from 1 to 7 February.