Olympic winner

A hometown hero

by Carol Browne on July 27, 2010 · 5 comments

in Festivities, Photos, Vancouver

Dairy Queen was giving away free mini Blizzards today and Maëlle Ricker was there signing autographs WITH her gold medal. Remember her kicking all that a$$ at the Olympics? Here’s the video of her winning the Snowboard Cross race in February. I got to the event around 11:20 (I took an early lunch – I promise. The event was only 2 blocks away from my office.) and there was just the right amount of people there. That steadily increased as it grew closer to the noon mark.

There were plenty of treats for everyone who arrived – little cups of ice cream and some cookies. And a gold medal.
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