Marie-Michèle Gagnon

The skiing life

🚨 Race 🚨 St Anton weekend series starts tomorrow at 11:45am. 🇦🇹 I’ll be starting bib 29 again. 🇨🇦 📷 @agencezoom

Ready for you January ⛷

Bye bye 2020 🎊🙏🏻 I hope this will be a better year for the world ❤️❤️ Celebrated 2021 with some SG training in @kronplatz #lifeofanathlete #dryjanuary2020

*Impatiently* waiting for the speed races to start again. In the meantime...training and dryland city 💪🏻 📷 @anna_goody

Did you know that @coldfx is made by a proud Canadian company? It’s funny because I’ve been taking @coldfx for the better part of my career during cold and flu season and until recently, I didn’t even know they were local. 😬🤷‍♀️ Being an alpine ski racer, I often have to be on the road for months to compete and train for my sport. So you better be sure I stock up on my COLD-FX Extra Strength before heading out to Europe for the winter!! I feel good supporting local brands and it’s also like bringing a little piece of home with me. COLD-FX Extra Strength helps reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of cold and flu symptoms by Boosting the Immune System. *To be sure this product is right for you, always read and follow the label.

Been spending the last few days totally alone in a beautiful remote valley in Italy surrounded by meters of snow. It’s always weird at first to be in total silence with just your thoughts flying around. This time has given me an opportunity to reflect on all that I am thankful for. AND let me tell you, there is lots! Most of you don’t know this, but last March, I got a call from the Canadian ski team saying they most likely will have to cut the women’s speed team program due to lack of funds. For me, this news in a way was a test to see if I still wanted to keep ski racing. The alternative was to fundraise between 200-250k $ to have my own team including technician, coach and all of our expenses for travel and training. I was humbled by the incredible amount of work athletes like @larisayurkiw @ilkastuhec and many others before have had to do to keep racing and follow their dreams. It was never a question in my mind if I wanted to keep ski racing. I believe I have lots to accomplish still, the love was there and therefore, I started reaching out to people, teams and ex-athletes to help me. In the current situation with COVID-19, raising that kind of money truly would have been mad. SO, this brings me to the very very grateful part of this story. The board members of Alpine Canada and many more people behind the scenes worked miracles to save the women’s speed team that was once again under threat. I am incredibly thankful to all those people for standing up not only for me, but also for all the other women’s speed racers coming up the ladder in Canada. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ Secondly, all of us athletes on the Canadian team have had to pay much more significant team fees this season. I’m happy to share that I was able to raise the entirety of my team fees because of amazing people like Daniel Desjardins, Lionel Agoutin, Ghislain/J-P (PiedRéseau Bromont), Fondation de la relève, Tom/ Lindsay Mcconnon, Alain Auclair, Andrew Edgell, Melissa Ong, Claude Gendron, Julie Lemieux, Harry Lacasse, Tim Dattels, Mark Wiseman, Bruce Chapple and all the other board members! (Long list) Thank you, thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️💕

Great couple of days in @sulden_solda ! The weather has been like this the entire time in Europe, insane! #headrebels

Enweeeye en bas⬇️ Doing some long turns tomorrow for Valerio who was our coach for one season. Such a great coach with a big heart, we will miss you 😢 RIP ❤️