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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015
VOL. 10 • ISSUE 09
Rossland Interact
This week’s feature:
Discovering Iceland…
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Team Holy Wow takes home gold
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The winner of the descending Everest (Red Mountain participants) Golden Boot trophy was the Holy Wow team with 151 thousand vertical feet. Team members were (L-R), Dario Cescon, Kim Merce, David Nutini and Mike Tench. Photo by Alicia Wallace
Local skeleton athlete to race at World Championship ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News
Local skeleton athlete, Joe Cecchini, has qualified to represent Italy at the 2015 World Championship International Skeleton and Bobsled Federation (FIBT) to be held March 5 and 6 in Winterberg, Ger-
many. The local, a past member of the Trail Track and Field Club was born in Fruitvale, B.C. and moved to Calgary in 2007 to pursue his career as a member of the police force. The Calgary Police Service is supportive of bobsled and skeleton racing offering staff flexible vaca-
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tion and unpaid leave packages to enable them to compete in the sport. Joe was working shift work with the police and training on the Canuck skeleton team simultaneously. To be a full time Canadian slider, Joe would have had to take two years off work.
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