Molson Brews Up Support for Olympic and Paralympic Hopefuls
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Billy Bridges – Sledge Hockey
A couple months ago, Ferg wrote about one of our upcoming Olympic activities called the Fund a Champion Campaign. Today, in honour of International Olympic Day, Molson is thrilled to announce that the select group of Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Winter athlete hopefuls have been identified! Today is the official introduction of the Molson Canadian/Molson Export (Quebec) Fund a Champion Campaign. Molson is committing up to $20,000 each to a group of 10 emerging athletes from across Canada to help them in their pursuit for excellence at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Jeff Batchelor – Snowboard
The designated 10 athletes (7 Olympian and 3 Paralympian) represent Canada’s four regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Western provinces). Each athlete will receive an initial $8,000 from the Molson Donations Fund in support of Molson’s Active Lifestyles community pillar. Molson will now call upon our employees to ‘adopt’ the athletes and encourage staff to raise additional funds in support of the athletes. Our athletes:
- Mark Arendz – Paralympic Nordic Skiing – Hartsville, PEI
- Brittany Webster – Cross Country Skiing – Caledon, ON
- Billy Bridges – Sledge Paralympian – Mississauga, ON
- Jeff Batchelor – Snowboard Halfpipe – Oakville, ON
- Francois Louis Tremblay – Speed Skating – Montreal, QC
- Joannie Rochette – Skate Canada – Ile Dupas, QC
- Jean Labonte – Sledge Paralympian – Hull QC
- Denny Morrison – Speed Skating – Calgary, AB
- Tom Velisek – Snowboard Cross – Vernon, BC
- Melissa Hollingsworth – Bobsleigh Skeleton, Eckville, AB
Joannie Rochette – Skate Canada
To see videos of all our athletes, visit Molson’s youtube channel and photos on our flickr channel.
Today, Molson employees are celebrating the news and commemorating International Olympic Day with a series of Olympic BBQs at each of our breweries and sales offices across Canada – complete with Fund a Champion athlete appearances!
More pics and deets to come. Cheers and Happy Olympic Day!
dude, what happen to the molson ice? ever since MI turned brown, it lost its flavor. and the caps feel loose
June 29th, 2009 at 9:51 pmTwitter Comment
RT @MolsonFerg: Molson Canadian and Export Fund a Champion athletes…#gocanadago [link to post]
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February 11th, 2010 at 3:16 pmTwitter Comment
Molson Canadian and Export Fund a Champion athletes…#gocanadago [link to post]
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February 11th, 2010 at 4:35 pm…..ok where is the Molson Canadian website for the ParaOlympic Games……i signed up for hockey….but where is it for the paraOlympic games????
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm