Deidra Dionne
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Deidra Dionne (born February 5, 1982) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.[1][2] She won bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics in freestyle aerial ski[3] She also won the bronze medal at the 2001 and 2003 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships.[1]
Her health and career appeared in jeopardy on September 1, 2005; when she had a training accident that injured her neck.[4] She came close to being paralyzed.[5] She had to have surgery where two vertebrae in her neck were fused with a titanium plate.[2] A bone graft needed to be taken from her right hip.[2] Eventually she recoverred, and was able to participate in the 2006 Winter Olympics. [6]
At the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Dionne won a bronze medal in women's aerial ski jumping.
Personal life
Dionne graduated from the National Sport School[3] in 1999, and then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts program through Athabasca University. After she finished her undergrad degree, Dionne studied law at the University of Ottawa.[7] DD then went on to work at Goodmans LLP in Toronto as an Articling Student. She spent 10 months at the firm during 2013-2014. As of December 2015 she is director of partnership and business strategy at Cimoroni & Company, a sport marketing and consulting company.[8]
References
- 1 2 Profile of Deidra Dionne by the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
- 1 2 3 Profile of Deidra Dionne by the CBC
- 1 2 "National Sport School Opens", Ski and Snowboard Canada, October 16, 2003.
- ↑ Stroup, Matt, "Crashing consequences: Teammates help Deidra Dionne overcome horrifying injury", NBC.
- ↑ Kingston, Gary, "Medallist scared but eager to take the leap once again", Vancouver Sun, October 29, 2005.
- ↑ Profile of Deidra Dionne by the Organising Committee of the XX Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games
- ↑ Official site of Deidra Dionne biography
- ↑ Dionne, Deidra (December 9, 2015). "'Amateur' a 4-letter word when referring to Olympic athletes". CBC Sports. Retrieved December 15, 2015.