Tag: Maïa Schwinghammer
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Maïa Schwinghammer’s Milano-Cortina Journey from Saskatchewan
From Saskatchewan’s Lakes to Olympic Horizons Maïa Schwinghammer’s route to Milano-Cortina is a story as cold and clear as the Saskatchewan winter that shaped her. Her path didn’t start on a glamorous podium or a high-altitude training base; it began behind a snowmobile, being towed across Christopher Lake in Saskatchewan. This early moment, captured in…
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From frozen lakes to the Olympic stage: Maïa Schwinghammer’s road to Milano-Cortina
From a snowmobile in Saskatchewan to the Olympic dream Maïa Schwinghammer’s road to Milano-Cortina wasn’t paved with the usual Olympic fanfare. It began on a frozen Saskatchewan lake, behind a snowmobile and a tow rope, a scene that would plant the seed of a remarkable athletic journey. “I grew up here, in Saskatoon,” she recalls,…