Canadian Olympic snowboarder from Coquitlam jailed in U.S. for cocaine smuggling

Canadian Olympic snowboarder from Coquitlam jailed in U.S. for cocaine smuggling: "former Canadian Olympic snowboarder will spend the next four years off the slopes after being convicted for shredding the wrong kind of powder.
Coquitlam’s Ryan Wedding was handed a four-year sentence in a California court Thursday for conspiring to distribute cocaine in an alleged smuggling operation.
The 28-year-old finished 24th in parallel giant slalom in the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games and had aspirations to qualify to represent Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
But those dreams were dashed on June 13, 2008 when Wedding and co-accused Hassan Shirani, of North Vancouver, were arrested by FBI agents as they left a San Diego hotel in a rental car."

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