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Nancy Greene Raine
Canadian alpine skier and politician
For the storyteller, cook, activist and model of a similar name, see Nancy Green.
Nancy Catherine Greene RaineOC OBC OD (born May 11, ) is a former Canadian Senator for British Columbia and an Olympic alpine champion voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century.
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She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Greene Raine won the giant slalom in the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
After being appointed to the Senate in , Greene Raine retired on May 11, , when she reached the mandatory retirement age of
She is the mother of retired alpine skier Willy Raine.
Biography
Greene was born on May 11, , in Ottawa, Ontario. She moved with her family to Rossland, British Columbia,[4] before she was three years of age. Rossland is a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in Greene began schussing at a young age and while in high school she competed in the Canad