" SNOWBOARDING... * By Andrew McCredie
Maéile Ricker won a oo finished 20th in Tignes, =

bronze medal in the half- Sports Editor France.
pipe competition at an KELLY Ringstad had “ET was really pleased, and

soni . pretty shocked with the
reigning world cham result,” she said of her fifth-

pion Candice Gilg place finish. The Argyle grad-
shaking in her ski uate is a bright prospect on
boots as they stood in the Canadian freestyle scene,
the gates atop Davies making a name for herself last
Dervish at Blackcomb year oat the Canadian
last S d Championships with a scc-
ast Saturday. ond-place finish,
Ringstad, a 22-year-old And although she isn’t a
North Vancouver native now full-fledged =omember of
living in Whistler, reccived a Canada’s World Cup team
booming cheer from a parti- yet. she continues to prove —
% san World Cup crowd gath- to herscif and to team offi-
; % ered at the bottom of the — cials — that she belongs with
e MAELLE : RICKER — = dual mogul run. the world’s elite mogul
% Wins half-pipe | “I felt amazing, because I skiers.
* bronze in Austria. = was up there when Jean-Luc Next up for Ringstad are
| (Brassard) raced and I  Nor-Am events at Blackcomb
“thought the applause was at the end of the month anda ; CES
| FIS World Cup event in = louder for me,” Ringstad said rerurn to Europe in February NEWS photo Terry Peters

4 Kreischberg, Austria last of the hometown support. “Il and March for more World
4 Saturday. think lots of people were sur- Cup competitions. AMERICA'S Ann Battelle (foreground) batties Finland's Minna Karhu in the dual

The West Vancouver prised to see me in the finals mogul bronze medal round during last weekend’s World Cup Freestyle event ata
boarder has also been in the first place, and Candice : » Blackcomb. North Vancouver native Kelly Ringstad (jeft) finished fifth.

piling up top-10 finishes said to me after the race I had
at a number of European her shaking in the start gate.”
events, including 2 10th ° No doubt Ringstad will
place _— showing at have many more skiers shak-
Europe’s premier board- ing in their boots as her
ing event — the Lord of = young career blossoms, but
the Boards in = on this day it was the wily
Sieberbrunn, Austria. ‘ veteran who won the race.
Next up for Ricker g However, Ringstad was far
are the FiS World @ from disappointed from her
Championships in final result — a fifth, her
Germany this weekend. best-ever placing at a World
Cup event. In December she

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