{"id":486004,"date":"2026-02-19T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:57:07","slug":"vancouver-island-olympic-athletes-take-the-slopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486004\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island Olympic athletes take the slopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cassie Sharpe got her start in the \u201dBumps and Jumps\u201d program at Mount Washington after her family moved to the Comox Valley. It led her to the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018 where she won Gold, and to Beijing in 2022 where she won silver. As she heads into her third Winter Olympics, she faces an extra challenge \u2013 being a new mom!<\/p>\n<p>She talked it all with Ryan and Lisa on the morning show on Tuesday February 17, a couple days before she began her qualifying runs. Medal events are expected on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the exact same women\u2019s halfpipe event that begins February 19, another Vancouver Islander is making her Olympic debut. Dillan Glennie is another child of Mount Washington. She spoke with C-FAX in the week\u2019s leading up to the games.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out our conversations with Vancouver Island Olympians, Victoria\u2019s Amelia Wells competed earlier in the games in cross country skiing. She spoke with CFAX before heading to Milan Cortina.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassie Sharpe got her start in the \u201dBumps and Jumps\u201d program at Mount Washington after her family moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-486004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}