The first Canadian Athlete to compete in three different Olympics in three different sports, Georgia Simmerling has made it to the BC Sports Hall Of Fame.

Not only was it three different Olympics, it was in different seasons as well, competing in both cycling and skiing events. For skiing, she competed in the Super Giant Slalom in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics finishing 27th, and at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 where she competed in ski cross, finishing 47th.

She would have likely competed in the 2018 Olympics, but had a leg and knee injury that prevented her from competing, when she was ranked third in the world, and was a favorite to win a medal.

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Fourteen months later, and she was back to competing on the international stage, this time in cycling instead of skiing. In 2016, she won the silver medal at the UCI World Cycling Championship in London for the team pursuit event, won two gold medals at the 2019 Pan American Track Cycling championships in Cochabamba, and had three other top-ten finishes at the UCI World Championships in 2019 and 2020.

During her time, she was part of three different national teams. The Canadian national alpine skiing team from 2007 till 2011, the Canadian national ski cross from 2011 till 2018, and the Canadian national cycling team from 2014 till 2021.

A fun fact about Georgia and competing in the team pursuit events is that is that was the fourth time she had ever ridden the event in her career, and she still won the silver medal. Becoming a dual athlete is hard enough, but doing it and still being able to compete at the top of the world makes it even more impressive.

Not only that, she got injured at a time where she was top three in the world as a skier, and a favorite to win a medal in the 2018 Olympics. In 14 months after a gruesome injury to both her knee and her leg, she was back competing on the world stage in a different sport. If that alone doesn’t show why she deserves to be in the BC Sports Hall Of Fame, I don’t know what does.

Like the rest of the inductees to the BC Sports Hall Of Fame, Georgia will have to wait until the fall of this year to join the hall, after the spring and summer events come to pass.

If you want to find out more about the BC Sports Hall Of Fame, you can click here to find out more, as well as the induction ceremony this fall.