August 11, 2009 – The Globe and Mail is featuring top skiers like Beckie Scott in a Where are They Now feature as a lead up to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. For Nordic skiing in Canada it doesn’t get much bigger than the one-and-only Scott who won North America’s first Olympic gold in cross-country skiing in the Pursuit at Salt Lake, after first being awarded bronze and then the silver, when the Russian skiers she raced against were disqualified for doping.

As the Globe’s James Christie writes… “Canada knows Beckie Scott by reputation as much as by name. She’s the firebrand leader for clean sport, a woman who, in 2002, made a dramatic lunge at the finish of the pursuit race to become the first North American to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.

She also fought for more than two years to have her original Olympic bronze medal upgraded to gold when it was proved that the two Russian women who finished in front of her on the trails outside Salt Lake City were doping cheats. She’s the woman who took on the establishment of a drug-corrupted sport, circulating petitions among other skiers, and who told the anti-doping authorities that despite their efforts, clean athletes were getting shortchanged.”

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