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WV’s Kelly
Ringstad in
Quebec race

Andrew McCredie

Editor
andrew@usnews.com

WEST Vancouver
mogut skier Kelly
Ringstad has an
Olympic-sized date with
destiny Sunday in
Quebec.

If the 23-year-old World
Cup competitor can finish in
the top 12 at the Mont
Tremblant competition, shell
be jetting cast next month for
the 1998 Winter Olympics in
Nagano, Japan. If not, she'll
most likely be skiing powder
with friends on some B.C.
mountai

Talking with the easy-going
skier on Monday — a day
b ¢ left for Quebec — it
wasn't clear which she would wo. -
Pre a little bit stressful ° 7 te Ro oo : a ‘ 3. Collecting the amount assessed from ICBC
right now,” she admitted. “I
really didn’t want to make the
Olympies the whole focus of
my season.”

In just her first full cam-
paign on the clite World Cup
Freestyle circuit, Ringstad ts
steadily adapting to the rigors
of the demanding competition
schedule.

The 19-stop season wraps
up cowards the end of March
and includes eight contests ina
three-week period at the end
of February in Europe.

“Evervon kiing so well
this year,” Ringscad said of the
competition. “They're so

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Amonth ago, it looked like
Ringstad's Olympic dream
would have to wait four vear:
At what was supposed ta be
her final chance at qualify
singles, in Tignes
Ringstad finished
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tions can be used to qualif
the Canadian Olympic

“T felt bad after ‘Tignes
when I thought FE wasn’t going
to be going,® she said.

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singles event left to qualify in,

was mathematically out of

luck.

“Bur then, two days before
the event in’ La Plagne
(France), we heard that there

n’t going to be duals the

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And she made the most of

that chanee, finishing fourth
on the first day of competition
— her best-ever World Cup
result — then 12th on
Saturday

She’s glad it won'r be the
Blackeomb World Cup (later
this month) thar will dever-
mine her Olympic standing:
“It would be so much more
media. In Quebce, we basically
are deft alone. [t's all the
Quebee skiers that get the
attention.”

‘ competi-
tion, Ringstad was full of con-
fidence on Monday.

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World Cups and a i
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