Yukon skier heading to the 2022 Winter Olympics

Sissi De Flaviis · CBC News

· Posted: Jan 10, 2022 4:38 PM EST | Last Updated: January 10, 2022

Whitehorse-born cross-country skier Dahria Beatty secured a spot connected the Canadian Olympic squad aft finishing 2nd during the Olympic trials successful Canmore past weekend.

"To really person that enactment locked up is decidedly a large relief. Now I tin absorption connected doing everything imaginable to execute the champion I tin astatine the [Olympic] games," Beatty said.

It'll beryllium the 2nd clip Beatty competes for Canada astatine the Olympics. She participated astatine the 2018 Winter Olympics successful Pyeonchang, South Korea.

Beatty came successful 2nd during the trials past play down Katherine Stewart-Jones, who had already qualified for Team Canada during the World Cup this past December.

She said she knew she had to bushed everyone but Stewart-Jones during the trials, "so, I conscionable went retired determination and gave it everything I had and luckily that was capable and I was capable to get 20 seconds up of the adjacent competitor."

Although the Yukon skier managed to unafraid a spot successful the upcoming team, she said she was feeling fatigue during the Olympic trials.

"This past week was decidedly a stressful one, but I was blessed to beryllium capable to bounce backmost and execute erstwhile I needed," said Beatty.

Alain Masson, caput manager of the Yukon skis squad who was coaching athletes astatine the skis trials, told CBC News helium was contented with Beatty's performance.

"I'm ever truly blessed erstwhile the athletes tin execute their champion astatine their astir important races," helium said.

A travel to the Olympics

Beatty started transverse state skiing erstwhile she was 3 years-old with the Jackrabbits programme successful Whitehorse.

She started representing Canada internationally successful 2009 wherever she competed successful the archetypal of her 3 satellite inferior championships.

In 2015, she debuted astatine the U23 satellite championships. Two years later, she returned and placed 12th successful the sprint. That year, she besides teamed up with Cendrine Browne for a 13th spot decorativeness successful the squad sprint and anchored Canada to a 10th spot successful the 4 x 5 km relay. This was Canada's champion effect successful the women's relay since 2001, according to Canada's Olympic website.

During her Olympic debut successful 2018, erstwhile she was 24, Beatty raced successful 5 events.

"I'm going to effort to instrumentality what I learned past time, which is to enactment successful the infinitesimal and not deliberation excessively acold up arsenic the games spell on," she said.

Heading to Beijing this twelvemonth has been connected Beatty's caput for a agelong time.

"This is decidedly thing that's been circled connected my calendar for many, galore years," she said.

The Canadian squad volition beryllium officially announced aboriginal today. Then they'll question to Silver Star, B.C., for the grooming campy anterior to departing to Beijing connected Jan. 26, Beatty explained.

The Winter Olympic games statesman connected Feb. 4.