Our athlete ambassador, Georgia Simmerling is set to compete in the Rio 2016 Olympics! Head down to the Market to enjoy all the excitement. We have transformed Nest space into an Olympic viewing station!
Stop by on August 5th for the opening ceremony at 4:00 PM.
Georgia Simmering is a Canadian alpine skier and cyclist.
She grew up ski racing on the North Shore of Vancouver at Grouse Mountain. She worked her way up the ranks in Alpine Skiing to represent Canada in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. For the last five years Georgia has been a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. In the spring of 2011 she decided to switch to ski cross from alpine skiing. Simmerling competed for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in ski cross.
In 2016 she was officially named in Canada’s 2016 Olympic team in track cycling. Simemerling will become the first Canadian athlete to compete at the Olympics in three different sports.
