Former Olympic snowboarder married B.C. woman while in prison for cocaine-trafficking conspiracy
CBC NewsThomas DaigleIt would be a Valentine's Day to remember.
Nine years to the day after Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding flew down the slalom course at the Olympic Games in Utah, he was about to get married.
But this was no ordinary celebration.
At age 29, Wedding was already a convicted drug trafficker, serving his sentence at a mega-prison in Texas. On Feb. 14, 2011 — while still incarcerated — he said "I do" with a B.C. businesswoman whose name would later surface at a trial for a violent kidnapping and extort…
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