Published On: Wed, Jan 22nd, 2025

‘I want to prove I’m back’: Olympic freestyle ski champ Cassie Sharpe combines motherhood and halfpipe

A woman wearing glasses, a red tuque, and red mittens holds up a silver medal.

2018 Olympic gold medallist and 2022 silver medallist in women’s halfpipe Cassie Sharpe thought she might retire when daughter Louella was born in 2023. The yearning Sharpe felt watching her friends and rivals drop into the pipe in Aspen, Colo., confirmed the freestyle fire still burned within her.

CBC | Sports News

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‘I want to prove I’m back’: Olympic freestyle ski champ Cassie Sharpe combines motherhood and halfpipe