Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's women's skiing pioneers and champions of the 1940s and 50s. Canada's first women's Olympic alpine ski team, competed at 1948 Winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Previous to that they had competed in Canada and the U.S. since 1942 and continued to compete until 1959 after they were married and had children. They were true pioneers for women in sports and for Canadian downhill skiing. Their biography, No Limits, by Byron Rempel, is an inspiring book, showing their fierce competitive spirit, their sense of fairplay and their handling of both victory and defeat.