Ethan Hess was just a teenager at his first Paralympic Games in 2018, gaining valuable experience. He is now trying to break into the world’s top-10 in the very competitive men’s sitting cross country events. In 2019, he raced for Canada at his first Para nordic world championships which were held in Prince George, B.C. and posted three top-15 finishes. With the pandemic wiping out big chunks of the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he returned with three more top-15...
Alison Mackie is set to make her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 at just 20 years old. Mackie won two bronze medals at the 2025 FIS Junior World Championships, reaching the podium in the women’s 10km free and women’s 20km mass start classic. She was the first Canadian woman to win a world junior championship medal in cross-country skiing since 1989. She just missed another medal in the women’s sprint classic, finishing fourth in the final by only 0.05 of a...
Liliane Gagnon is set to make her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 after having been part of Team Canada at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games. Gagnon is a three-time medallist at the FIS U23 World Championships. In her third straight appearance at the U23 Worlds in 2025, she won bronze in both the women’s 10km free and women’s 20km mass start classic. The year before, she had won gold in the mixed 4x5km relay alongside Derek Deuling, Jasmine Drolet, and Max...
Max Hollmann is set to make his Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 after winning the men’s 10km free event at the Nordiq Canada 2026 Olympic Winter Games Trials. He had been unsure if he would be able to race in the event after undergoing surgery just five weeks earlier. He had broken the scaphoid bone in his wrist six weeks before that, so had been training without poles for several months. Hollmann debuted at the senior FIS World Championships in 2025 where he...
