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Tiana Gairns from Prince George and Reece Howden of Cultus Lake both won bronze in Switzerland. Two-time Olympic medallist Marielle Thompson placed fourth.
Chris Del Bosco’s career has been defined by second chances. Growing up in EagleVail to an American mother and Canadian father, the natural athlete gravitated towards ski racing and the party scene attached to.
Reece Howden, the Crystal Globe series points champion from Cultus Lake, did his part in the Big Final, winning the men’s race, but only by the slightest of margins. Just 16 hundreds of a second separated first from fourth. In the mixed team event, the women wait in the start gate and the gate drops as soon as their male partner crosses the finish. Gairns hung within striking distance of the leaders for the entire race and was in third place behind Fanny Smith of Switzerland and was right on the tail of second place Sandra Naeslund of Sweden as the skiers approached the bottom part of the course.
The 22-year-old former alpine racer known as “Big Rig” has been dominant in the World Cup with a sizeable lead in the overall standings. Howden currently has 470 points, with Ryan Regaz and Johnas Lehnerr, both of Switzerland, with 341 and 298 points respectively.
Perhaps the best news for Howden is the venue for the worlds ski cross: Idre Fjall, Sweden, the same race track where he won back-to-back races in late January.
You could say his confidence is sky high.
But what’s with the “Big Rig” nickname?
“I guess you’d say I’m a bit of a country boy and I like drivin’ [a] big truck so they just called me that,” he said to