Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder in 2002.
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Power & PoliticsOct 21, 2026
Multiple tier1 and primary sources confirm Ryan Wedding competed for Canada in snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 24th in parallel giant slalom. The passage's misspelling 'Ryan Wetting' is resolved by the same post's reference to 'Ryan James Wedding', so the extraction correctly names Wedding.
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What was said
In 2002, Ryan Wetting was an Olympic snowboarder at the top of his game. Ryan's style is really gunned and gold, and in less than a minute, it slipped away, but he continued to chase the high. Right, Ryan James Wedding? He controls one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in this world. …
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Supports. Reuters reports Wedding 'competed for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City' and is a former Olympic snowboarder.[1]
Supports. AP News states Wedding 'finished 24th in parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Olympics'.[2]
Supports. The FBI's official page describes Wedding as 'a snowboarder who represented Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah'.[3]
Supports. The U.S. State Department states Wedding 'participated in the giant slalom snowboarding event for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics'.[4]
Supports. CNN and Olympic.ca both record Wedding's 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic appearance in the parallel giant slalom, finishing 24th.[5][6]
Context. Sources describe Wedding as a former Olympian who later became a fugitive accused of drug trafficking; this does not bear on whether he competed in 2002.[7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated, 1 tier 1
- 1Canadian ex-Olympic snowboarder pleads not guilty to US drug ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2US offers $10 million reward for fugitive snowboarder ... - AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Reward Raised for Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Ryan Weddingfbi.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Ryan James Wedding (Captured)state.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5How an Olympic snowboarder became one of the ... - CNNcnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 6Ryan Wedding - Team Canada - Olympic.caolympic.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7FBI confirms alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding arrestedbbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 8U.S. officials confirm Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding is in custodyici.radio-canada.ca · not rated · cited for: context
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