Lake Louise World Cup kicks off Olympic season for deep Canadian men’s ski team
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Manuel Osborne-Paradis was OK with the cancellation of last year’s World Cup in Lake Louise, Alta.
The Canadian man who has won the most medals in Lake Louise couldn’t race there in 2016 because he was otherwise occupied. On the eve of the cancelled downhill, his wife Lana gave birth to a daughter.
“I wouldn’t have raced. Sloane was born the night before,” Osborne-Paradis said. “As we got closer to the due date, I wasn’t skiing that well anyway. It worked out very well for me.”
Sloane Grace Osborne-Paradis celebrates her first birthday Saturday when dad steps into Lake Louise’s start hut.