Athlete: Veronika Bauer. Event: Aerials. Bio: Bauer won gold at the world championships in 2001 and silver at the 2003 world championships. Vancouver will be her third Olympics. In the 2006 Games in Turin, she placed 12th and at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City she finished 10th. (RYAN REMIORZ/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Alex Bilodeau. Event: Moguls. Bio: Bilodeau is the 2009 World Cup moguls champion. He competed in the 2006 Turin Games at the age of 18 and finished 11th. Later that year, he became the youngest male to win a World Cup moguls event at 19 years old. (TODD BISSONETTE/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. Event: Moguls. Bio: Dufour-Lapointe was named the 2008 rookie-of-the-year by the International Ski Federation. She finished third at La Plagne, France's World Cup event in 2009. (JEFF McINTOSH/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Chris Del Bosco. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Del Bosco was ranked second in the 2009 World Cup standings. At the most recent World Cup event prior to the Vancouver Olympics, he won gold at Lake Placid, New York. (DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Maxime Gingras. Event: Moguls. Bio: Gingras was fifth at the 2009 world championships and eighth at the 2007 world championships. He won a bronze medal in the 2007 World Cup event at Apex Mountain in B.C. (The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Dave Duncan. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Duncan won the 2009 Canadian national championship. He also won two bronze medals in World Cup events in 2009 at St. Johann, Austria and Lake Placid, New York.

Athlete: Stanley Hayer. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Hayer's (shown at the front in the above photo) hometown may be Kimberley, B.C. but he competed in alpine skiing for the Czech Republic in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. He also won silver at the 2005 world championships for that country but moved to the Canadian team in 2007. At the 2009 X-Games, he won ski cross gold and in 2008 won silver. (RICHARD LAM/Reuters)

Athlete: Jennifer Heil. Event: Moguls. Bio: Heil is the defending Olympic champion in moguls and will be looking to repeat in Vancouver. She also finished fourth at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City and has claimed the World Cup overall title four times. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Vincent Marquis. Event: Moguls. Bio: Marquis won bronze at the 2009 world championships and a gold medal at the 2009 World Cup event in Mont Gabriel, Quebec. (JACQUES BOISSINOT/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Kyle Nissen. Event: Aerials. Bio: Nissen came up 5th at the 2006 Games in Turin, but Nissen's Olympic legacy began much earlier. When he was eight years old, Nissen was a torchbearer when the Olympics were held in his hometown of Calgary, Alberta in 1988. In the 2008-09 World Cup season, Nissen was ranked fourth overall.

Athlete: Ashleigh McIvor. Event: Ski cross. Bio: McIvor is the reigning world champion in ski cross. She made the podium four times in the 2008-09 World Cup season and won her first World Cup gold medal this past January at Les Contamines, France. (LAURENT CIPRIANI/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Julia Murray. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Murray is currently ranked fourth in the World Cup standings. During the World Cup 2008-09 season, she won two bronze; one at St. Johann, Austria and the other at Meirngen, Switzerland. (DOUGLAS C. PIZAC/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Steve Omischl. Event: Aerials. Bio: Omischl has won the World Cup overall aerials championship four times (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009). He won gold at the 2005 world championships and finished 11th at both the 2006 Turin Games and 2002 Salt Lake City Games. (XINHUA, XU JIAJUN/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Danielle Poleschuk. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Poleschuk Won gold medals in Nor-Am super-G events before moving from alpine skiing to ski cross. She placed sixth at this year's World Cup stop at Blue Mountain, Ontario and in the final World Cup event before the Vancouver Games she placed eighth at Lake Placid, New York. (FRANK GUNN/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Kristi Richards. Event: Moguls. Bio: Richards won the 2007 world championships and finished seventh at the 2006 Turin Games. This season, she captured gold and silver at the first two World Cup events. (JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press)

Athlete: Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau. Event: Moguls. Bio: Rousseau won the world championships in 2007 and placed second at the 2001 world championships. (MARK BLINCH/Reuters)

Athlete: Kelsey Serwa. Event: Ski cross. Bio: Serwa (shown at the front in the photo above) won her second World Cup gold medal at Lake Placid, New York, the final World Cup event before the Vancouver Games. She's currently ranked third in the world heading into Vancouver and was named the 2009 International Ski Federation rookie-of-the-year. (MIKE GROLL/The Associated Press)

Athlete: Warren Shouldice. Event: Aerials. Bio: Shouldice won the bronze at the 2009 world championships while competing with a compression fracture in his back. In 2005 he became the first person to ever perform a lay triple full full in competition. He also placed sixth at the 2006 Games in Turin. (ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/Reuters)