Beckie Scott

Rebecca Beckie Scott, MSM is a Canadian former crosscountry skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athletes Commission along with Saku Koivu.

Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. Supported by her passionatly competitive and skiing community activist father Walter Scott, she began crosscountry skiing at the age of five. She entered her first competition at age seven, and attended the Junior National Championships in 1988. She went on to win seventeen World Cup medals in sprint, individual, and relay crosscountry skiing events.

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