Owen Sound's Larisa Yurkiw.Owen Sound's Larisa Yurkiw.
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Yurkiw Competes at Lake Louise Alpine World Cup

Owen Sound native Larisa Yurkiw is competing in the Lake Louise Alpine World Cup starting today.

Yurkiw finished in 51st place in training, finishing her thrid run in 1:56.97. That's 4.49 seconds off from first place finisher Mirjam Puchner

Fellow Canadian Valerie Grenier finished in 40th place. American Lindsey Vonn was second, 0.12 seconds behind Puchner.

Racing begins at 2:45 p.m. EST today with the Audi FIS World Cup Downhill.

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