Deidra Dionne

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Deidra Dionne
Personal information
BornFebruary 5, 1982 (1982-02-05) (age 42)
North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Website www.deidradionne.com
Medal record
Women's freestyle skiing
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Salt Lake City Aerials
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2001 Whistler Aerials
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Deer Valley Aerials

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]

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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. Between September 2015 and April 2018, she worked as the director of partnership and business strategy at Cimoroni & Company, a sport marketing and consulting company. In April 2018 she joined Rogers Media Inc/Sportsnet as Director of Business Affairs. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Profile of Deidra Dionne by the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association". freestyleski.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "Profile of Deidra Dionne by the CBC". cbc.ca.
  3. 1 2 "National Sport School Opens" Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine , Ski and Snowboard Canada, October 16, 2003.
  4. Stroup, Matt, "Crashing consequences: Teammates help Deidra Dionne overcome horrifying injury" Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine , NBC.
  5. Kingston, Gary, "Medallist scared but eager to take the leap once again" Archived 2006-05-20 at the Wayback Machine , Vancouver Sun, October 29, 2005.
  6. "Profile of Deidra Dionne by the Organising Committee of the XX Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games". torino2006.org. Archived from the original on 2007-08-12.
  7. "Official site of Deidra Dionne biography". deidradionne.com. Archived from the original on 2006-05-20. Retrieved 2006-02-16.
  8. Dionne, Deidra (December 9, 2015). "'Amateur' a 4-letter word when referring to Olympic athletes". CBC Sports. Retrieved December 15, 2015.