Canada's all time best ski racer fighting cancer.

[DanoT]

Former World Cup and Olympic Champion, Nancy Greene is battling thyroid cancer.

https://www.sunpeaksresort.com/media/news-releases
Nancy who is now in her early 70s, was known as The Tiger during her racing days in the 1960s. No doubt she still has the fight and determination that made her a champion.

Edit: another report: tp://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/skiing/nancy-greene-thyroid-cancer-1.4069804

 

[Main Street]

We were chatting with Nancy the other day & she is in good spirits. Now that the thyroid had been removed, she will move forward with other treatments.

 

[Posaune]

A few years ago I was at Sun Peaks for a few days and watched Ms Green go by a few times. That woman can SKI! Hope this doesn't slow her down.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I wish Nancy all the best with her recovery. She has been and will continue to be an inspiration to racers everywhere.

 

[scott43]

I can remember being out at Red Mountain when I was 7 or 8 on a road trip and standing at the bottom of Red Mountain and my mom telling me this is where Nancy Greene learned to ski. As a flat-lander who learned to ski on 350' vertical it was pretty awesome.

 

[spackler]

Luckily the prognosis for thyroid cancer is mostly good.

Nancy Greene wasn't just a great racer (and she was great), her involvement in ski racing post career led to the creation of the Nancy Greene Ski League. Basically a nationwide entry level racing program, it has introduced thousands and thousands of kids to ski racing since it's inception. It's a fun focused, team based competition where kids get excellent instruction while being eased into racing. I raced Nancy Greene League, my wife raced Nancy Greene League, my kids raced Nancy Greene League. Everyone in our area starts out in Nancy Greene, including current World Cuppers like Dustin Cook and Mikaela Tommy.

AND, she's super nice! Have met her a few times, and have a friend who sees her lots through a family connection. A great lady. Wishing her well!

 

[Main Street]

Luckily the prognosis for thyroid cancer is mostly good.

Nancy Greene wasn't just a great racer (and she was great), her involvement in ski racing post career led to the creation of the Nancy Greene Ski League. Basically a nationwide entry level racing program, it has introduced thousands and thousands of kids to ski racing since it's inception. It's a fun focused, team based competition where kids get excellent instruction while being eased into racing. I raced Nancy Greene League, my wife raced Nancy Greene League, my kids raced Nancy Greene League. Everyone in our area starts out in Nancy Greene, including current World Cuppers like Dustin Cook and Mikaela Tommy.

AND, she's super nice! Have met her a few times, and have a friend who sees her lots through a family connection. A great lady. Wishing her well!

Yes,.... She is a powerhouse & very nice in person,..... My wife & I help Nancy with a few of her fundraising events at Sun Peaks throughout the year & meet for dinners with her & Mayor hubby Al a couple times a year,.... We skied together a few times in the 15/16 season & she is awesome to ski with,... You either keep up,....... or you don't !! ,.... Different matter when she is skiing with groups of visitors to the hill (something she does every day she is on the hill through the season),..... But when she is hooting about with friends, the hammer gets put down big time.

The entire hill community has its fingers crossed for her return to the slopes.

 

[Jilly]

Luckily the prognosis for thyroid cancer is mostly good.

Nancy Greene wasn't just a great racer (and she was great), her involvement in ski racing post career led to the creation of the Nancy Greene Ski League. Basically a nationwide entry level racing program, it has introduced thousands and thousands of kids to ski racing since it's inception. It's a fun focused, team based competition where kids get excellent instruction while being eased into racing. I raced Nancy Greene League, my wife raced Nancy Greene League, my kids raced Nancy Greene League. Everyone in our area starts out in Nancy Greene, including current World Cuppers like Dustin Cook and Mikaela Tommy.

AND, she's super nice! Have met her a few times, and have a friend who sees her lots through a family connection. A great lady. Wishing her well!

Couldn't agree more. I watched her son race at Tremblant a few years back. All racers of a certain age raced Nancy Greene. My first trip to WB they still had the Nancy Greene Lodge in operation. There was a meet and greet Sunday night with Nancy. I've seen her many times at the Toronto or Ottawa Snow shows promoting Sun Peaks. I think I have a poster signed by her from my teen years. Yes I saved those, didn't save the David Cassidy kind.

Very rare cancer site. But prognosis sounds good.

 

[Tricia]

The good news is, this is one of the most curable cancers.
The bad news, she'll probably have to take a radioactive iodine pill which isn't entirely fun.

 

[Muleski]

The good news is, this is one of the most curable cancers.
The bad news, she'll probably have to take a radioactive iodine pill which isn't entirely fun.

Yes. Have, unfortunately, had a half dozen or so friends who have all had to deal with Thyroid cancer, and knock on wood ALL have had great outcomes. Very fortunate. I hope the same for Nancy Greene. She is an an absolutely wonderful person. Great ambassador for our sport, and always has been.

 

[slowrider]

Keep charging Nancy G.

 

[Muleski]

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Keep charging Nancy G.

Curious about the picture. Not Nancy. More to the story?

Agree 110% with the "Keep Charging" message!

 

[slowrider]

Google her racing carrer and accomplishments. This was one of the images. My apologies.

 

[Muleski]

Google her racing carrer and accomplishments. This was one of the images. My apologies.

Oh. No need to apologize, at all. Probably a kid racing a few years ago in a Nancy Greene junior league of some sort.......

 

[slowrider]

Would that be a dream, to have a ski racing program you could train young racers. I hope she gets to ski again.

 

[scott43]

Here's a pic of her, makes me proud in her maple leaf sweater getting the Lou Marsh award.

 

[graham418]

Would that be a dream, to have a ski racing program you could train young racers. I hope she gets to ski again.

I think any / every kid who has ever ski raced in Canada in the last 50 years has at some time participated in the Nancy Greene Ski League. A great platform for young racers to start .

 

[Kneale Brownson]

The good news is, this is one of the most curable cancers.
The bad news, she'll probably have to take a radioactive iodine pill which isn't entirely fun.

The radioactive iodine pill was injections in my wife's case. They just help radiologists track whether thyroid cells migrated elsewhere in the body, and then help wipe out the cells. Following her thyroidectomy, my wife had two of those scans because the first one found cells elsewhere. The second showed she's clear. The worst part of thyroid cancer (provided it's detected early) is having to take thyroid medication the rest of your life to replace the output from the organ.

 

[Main Street]

The good news is, this is one of the most curable cancers.
The bad news, she'll probably have to take a radioactive iodine pill which isn't entirely fun.

The badder news is that it has metastasized in her lungs in multiple zones & is NOT curable,..... But it IS treatable.

She will be having multiple rounds of very heavy dose radiation to try & treat it and that prognosis is positive.

That's about all I can release I'm afraid.

She feels well & will be joining us for Canada Day celebrations at Sun Peaks on July 1st if all is well.

 

[Muleski]

I felt odd "liking" that news, but appreciate your posting it. I'm sure that I join the entire ski world in wishing her the very best as she fights this. I've only met her a couple of times, but she seems like a wonderful person, and I assume she's a real strong woman, with a lot of fight in her.

All the best to her. Good news that it is treatable. Thanks for posting that update.