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CALGARY — Ten years ago today, a pint-sized Jenn Heil stood atop the moguls field in Sauze D’Oulx, Italy, with no regrets — regardless of what might happen during the next 26 seconds of her life.

The 22-year-old commerce student at McGill University had a note from her psychologist tucked in her pocket that read: “I’m ready. I know it’s going to be great.”

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And great she was, exploding out of the gate and landing two monster jumps to win Canada’s first medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

“Now I can share that gold medal with all the people who made this possible,” Heil said that night. “This medal has to be divided into many, many pieces.”

At the time, Heil’s words sounded overly generous. After all, she was the one skiing down the mountain. But an entire team of professionals helped transform the Spruce Grove, Alta., native from the broken-down 18-year-old who finished a mere hundredth of a point off the podium at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games into an Olympic champion.