Athlete: Brigitte Acton. Events: Slalom, giant slalom, super-combined. Bio: Acton competed at the 2006 Games in Turin where she finished 17th in slalom, 11th in giant slalom, and 10th in super-combined. Competitive skiing runs strong in her family. Her mother, Diane Pratte is a former Olympian and her father, sister, an aunt and two uncles were also part of the Canadian National Ski Team. (RUBEN SPRICH/Reuters)

Athlete: Emily Brydon. Events: Downhill, super-G, super-combined. Bio: Brydon is a nine-time Canadian champion and one-time World Cup winner. At the 2006 Winter Games, she finished 20th in downhill, 9th in super-G and 13th in super-combined. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Julien Cousineau. Events: Slalom, giant slalom. Bio: Cousineau finished a career-best 5th place in slalom this past January at Schladming, Austria. Vancouver will be his first Olympics. (CALLE TOERNSTROEM/Reuters)

Athlete: Robbie Dixon. Events: Downhill, super-G, giant slalom. Bio: Dixon won his first medals at the national level in 2009 taking gold in the super-G and silver in the super combined. This will be the North Vancouver native's first Olympics. (FRANK GUNN/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Jeffrey Frisch. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: Frisch's best World Cup result is a 12th in downhill at Kvitjfell, Norway, in 2007. (JACQUES BOISSINOT/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Marie-Michele Gagnon. Events: Slalom, giant slalom, super-G. Bio: Gagnon was the Nor-Am overall champion for the 2008-09 season. Her career-best World Cup results include an eighth in slalom at Ofterschwang, Germany, and ninth in giant slalom at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, both last season.(JACQUES BOISSINOT/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Anna Goodman. Events: Slalom, giant slalom. Bio: In early January, Goodman suffered an ACL tear in her right knee. She will attempt to recoup in time for the Vancouver Olympics. She earned her first top-10 World Cup finish at Are, Sweden in December 2009. (Reuters)

Athlete: Erik Guay. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: Guay had an extremely disappointing finish at the 2006 Turin Games where he finished 0.01 seconds out of third place. In his career he's had ten top-three finishes on the World Cup circuit. (FRANK GUNN/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Louis-Pierre Helie. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: Helie was the 2008-09 Nor-Am overall champion. His best World Cup result was 22nd in December 2009 at Lake Louise, Alberta. (JACQUES BOISSINOT/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Jan Hudec. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: In February of 2007, Hudec won silver in the downhill at the World Championships in Are, Sweden. In November of the same year, he earned his first World Cup victory in the downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta. He also won a bronze in December 2007 at Bormio, Italy. (ALESSANDRO TROVATI/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Britt Janyk. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: Janyk won gold at the World Cup downhill race on December 8, 2007 at Aspen, Colorado. It was the first World Cup downhill won by a Canadian woman since Kate Pace-Lindsay in 1993. She also won a bronze medal in downhill a week earlier at Lake Louise, Alberta. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Michael Janyk. Events: Slalom, super-combined. Bio Like his big sister and fellow Olympian Britt Janyk, Michael has had medal success at the international level as well. In 2009, he won the bronze medal in slalom at the World Championships in Val-d'Isere, France. At the 2006 Games in Turin, he placed 17th in the slalom event. (SERGEY PONOMAREV/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Erin Mielzynski. Events: Slalom, giant slalom. Bio: Mielzynski placed 30th in her first World Cup slalom at Aspen, Colorado in November. She's also earned a silver and a bronze in Nor-Am Cup slaloms this season.

Athlete: Tyler Nella. Events: Downhill, super-G, giant slalom. Bio: Finishing fourth in the 2008-09 Nor-Am Cup standings, Nella had previously finished 22nd in giant slalom and 23rd in downhill at the 2008 world junior championships in Formigal, Spain. (The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Manuel Osborne-Paradis. Events: Downhill, super-G. Bio: Vancouver product Osborne-Paradis will be one of the first Canadians to realistically get a crack at winning a gold medal on home turf. He'll be racing on his home-hill in Whistler on the first day of the Vancouver Games. Osborne-Paradis had three World Cup victories in 2009, the most recent one on December 19 in downhill at Val Gardena, Italy. (ARMANDO TROVATI/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Shona Rubens. Events: Downhill, super-G, giant slalom. Bio: Rubens qualified to compete at the Vancouver Games after placing 18th in downhill during a World Cup event at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Other career highlights include a second place finish in downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta's Nor-Am Cup event and placing fifth in super-G at the 2005 Canadian championships. (DOMINIC EBENBICHLER/Reuters)

Athlete: Ryan Semple. Events: Slalom, giant slalom, super-combined. Bio: At the Winter Games in Turin, Semple competed in both the giant slalom and the super-combined. He failed to finish his slalom run and did only partially completed the combined event. His best finish on the World Cup circuit is 16th in slalom at Flachau, Austria in 2004(KEVIN FRAYER/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Brad Spence. Events: Slalom, giant slalom. Bio: Spence had his best World Cup race this January with a 12th place finish in slalom at Kitzbuehel, Austria. Spence qualified for Team Canada at the Olympic Games in Turin, but was seriously injured in Bormio, Italy -- the last downhill event before the Games. (STUART DRYDEN/QMI Agency)

Athlete: Trevor White. Events: Slalom, giant slalom. Bio: White's two best World Cup results both came in the same event at the same place -- slalom at Kitzbuehel, Austria. He finished 8th in January 2009 and 14th last month. He also won a Europa Cup slalom race in Kirchberg, Austria last month. (The Associated Press)