Vancouver 2010 Olympics Coverage Daily - moguls

Origins of Begg-Smith's fortunes

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:34:54 -0800

So apparently this Gold medalist in Moguls today (born in Vancouver, competes for Australia) is an Internet hotshot millionaire who keeps and apartment in Vancouver and drive a Lamborghini living the rock star life. Word is that he and his brother own a software biz but i dunno which one. All very shady it seems ;-) rather spammish

http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5058573/detail.html

Begg-Smith is a business mogul off the slopes. At 13, the entrepreneur founded an online marketing company that he says has grown to the third-largest in the world. Begg-Smith originally started the Vancouver and New York-based company, which designs search engines and pop-up window blockers for about 5,000 websites, to fund his ski career. Thirty employees work directly for Begg-Smith.

Canada Scores First Gold!!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:05:42 -0800

Jennifer Heil from Spruce Grove, Alberta earned Canada's first Gold of the games by winning women's moguls on Saturday in Sauze d'Oulx, Italy while Norway and France logged Silver and Bronze respectively.

The Silver and Brozne medalsits were veteran Kari Traa of Norway, the 2002 Olympic champion (who will likely retire from competetive skiing), and a relative newcomer Sandra Laoura of France took bronze with a fast run.

The Japanese entry was the most acrobatic skiier pulling of a nutty flip and finishing fourth and the Swedish competitor landed a front flip for fifth (IIRC). Overall, 2-time world champion, Heil's run was smooth, fast and technically sound with decent, if unspectatular, jumps (top air 360 and backflip with crossed skiis).