Olympics
At the 2006 Winter Olympics she picked up a 4th place finish in the Super-G event, missing the podium by only 0.03 of a second. On December 17th 2009, Kelly VanderBeek saw her season end along with her 2010 Winter Olympic dream when she suffered from a torn posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), medial collateral ligament (MCL), and a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee after a crash on the second downhill training run at a World Cup in Val d'Isère, France. That same week at Val d'Isère also ended up being a season ending stop for two other Canadian Olympic hopefuls, Larisa Yurkiw and Jean-Philippe Roy. Although VanderBeek did not compete on home soil, she was given the opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame as the torch passed through New Westminster, British Columbia. Along with other current and former members of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, VanderBeek also appeared on live television as an alpine skiing analyst for broadcaster, CTV.
Read more about this topic: Kelly Vander Beek