Olympic Snowboarder Turned Accused Drug Kingpin Arrested

One of the strangest stories in snowsports has, for now, come to an end. 

Friday morning, NBC News reported that, according to law enforcement officials, Ryan Wedding, a snowboarder and one-time Canadian Olympian accused of running a transnational drug trafficking operation that imported drugs from Mexico, had been arrested.

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