Paralympics

North Vancouver’s Lauren Woolstencroft skis to fourth Paralympic gold medal

by Stephen Hui on March 19th, 2010 at 2:32 PM
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      North Vancouver’s Lauren Woolstencroft has won her fourth gold medal of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.

      Today (March 19), the 28-year-old alpine skier earned her latest first-place finish in the women’s standing super-G.

      Melania Corradini of Italy got the silver medal in the event at Whistler Creekside.

      Andrea Rothfuss of Germany ended up with the bronze.

      Woolstencroft has already won gold medals in the standing downhill, giant slalom, and slalom at the 2010 Games.

      The 28-year-old electrical engineer, who was named the International Paralympic Committee’s athlete of the year in 2006, now has nine career Paralympic medals.

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      Jacques St-Cyr

      Apr 22, 2010 at 10:05pm

      i am interested to get in touch with Miss Woolstencroft
      to include her in a ballet....it has never been done before in the ballet world....it might seem impossible ...but i will make this the greatest ballet Vancouver as ever seen...

      Firebird, The Liberation of The Amazons

      as soloist for Les Grands Ballets in Montreal
      i worked also with BoB Fosse in New York and Balanchine with the New York City Ballet

      so i know the business,, i can make unusual things possible

      so please get me i touch with Lauren so i can propse this great endeavor that the ballet world has never seen before