the awesome tale of the amazing snowboarder Alexa Loo

Vancouver British Columbia the Canadian snowboarder Alexa Loo will compete in the parallel giant slalom at Cypress Mountain. Loo missed qualifying for the 2002 winter Olympics by 11 hundredths of a second. Four years later, in Turin Italy she became the first Canadian woman to compete in parallel giant slalom. She put together a solid first run, even pulled ahead of the world cup point’s leader in her second race, only to tumble with four gates remaining. She tore her knee ligament but she returned in September with renewed focus only to lose her financing in 2008. Loo needed to finish in the top 16 in the world to qualify for her $18,000 stipend from Sport Canada, the country’s Olympic committee. That was impossibility after the injury cost her half the season. Funny how life works though because after she lost her financing fell into place. In December she became engaged. Last month she won a world cup silver medal in Austria. She represented Canada in the winter Olympics a short drive from home that looked out at the mountains.