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Ricker vows to defend snowboard cross gold at Sochi despite broken wrist

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Canada\'s Maelle Ricker reacts after she won the Women\'s Snowboard Cross competition, Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the FIS Snowboard World Championship in Stoneham, Que. Ricker is confident she\'ll be able to defend her women\'s snowboard cross gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Clement Allard

VANCOUVER – Maelle Ricker is confident she’ll be able to defend her women’s snowboard cross gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

The 35-year-old from West Vancouver, B.C., broke her wrist in training Jan. 28 and required surgery to repair the compound fracture.

Ricker says she’s already training in the gym and doing physiotherapy, but adds she won’t be back on her snowboard until she gets to Russia.

Snowboard cross involves four athletes racing down a course at the same time, often jockeying for position.

Ricker expects there to be some pain when she competes, mainly at the top of the course when she pulls herself out of the start gate.

The 2010 gold medallist is scheduled to leave for Sochi on Saturday, with the snowboard cross competition set for Feb. 16.

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