The medal that made Laurie Blouin famous

Laurie Blouin may have been world slopestyle champion in 2017, but it was her silver medal in the same discipline of snowboarding at the Pyeongchang Olympics a year later that really made her a household name in Quebec. and slopestyle, an activity that more and more young Quebec snowboarders want to practice.

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“I have the impression that snowboarding, and especially slopestyle, was a little less known to everyone in Quebec. After winning that medal, people got to know me, who I was, and my sport. Now people recognize me in the street,” says the resident of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier.


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