Redemption-mentality leads to 17th place finish for Graham at Chiesa In Valmalenco World Cup
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PRINCE GEORGE – The weekend did not start the way Colby Graham was hoping. After nearly a month of training in Austria, the Prince George snowboarder made his way to Italy with his Canadian teammates.
“I actually fell my first qualification run so I was pretty pissed about that,” said Graham in a Zoom call with CKPGToday.ca. “Then the weather rolled in, was dumping snow and wind. That’s not what you want for your second run, especially if you’re trying to make up for a mistake. That race didn’t go super well. Actually, that ended up being my worst result ever.”
From there, Graham said he was feeling like it was time for redemption. For the next race, organizers ran a qualification heat, picked out by points. Graham raced in that in a heat with the top Italian rider and a well known French rider.
“I watched all of their videos going into the race. I knew that the Italian and French rider had slower starts and were known to mess up in one section, so I was expecting to get out front and battle at the bottom.”
