With less than four days to go until the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Alpine Canada announced Canada's second largest Olympic ski team ever, naming 17 athletes who have meet the qualifying standards to compete at the Winter Games in Italy. Returning to World Cup competition after being sidelined for the entire 2004-2005 season due to a knee injury, Christina Lustenberger (Invermere) is the last skier to have met the Olympic selection criteria after achieving two top 18 results this past weekend in Germany in World Cup giant slalom competitions.
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