Contents
* 1 Early years and career
* 2 Business controversy
* 3 Honours
* 4 Results
o 4.1 Olympic Results
o 4.2 World Championship Results
o 4.3 World Cup Season Victories
o 4.4 World Cup Podiums
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Early years and career
Begg-Smith was skiing for his native Canada as a teenager when his coaches told him he was spending too much time on his fledgling business, and not enough time in training. He subsequently quit the Canadian ski program because it clashed with his business interests and, along with his brother Jason Begg-Smith, moved to Australia at age 16. The brothers chose to ski for Australia because the country had a smaller ski program that offered them more attention and flexibility. This ensured that they could still successfully manage their business. The brothers stayed out of competitive skiing for three years and instead trained with the Australian team, living in Jindabyne each winter. The pair qualified for Australian citizenship after these three years in 2003-04, and were then free to compete for their adopted country.[citation needed]
Alisa Monk, coordinator of the moguls program, says that she books Begg-Smith's hotels and flights economically, despite his wealth. "Wherever the team stays, he stays. There are certainly no big demands. You wouldn't know he had a bit of money." She also said, "When he is at Perisher he stays in the same hut as the other mogul skiers and his brother which is small and old and almost falling down", and that "He just doesn't try to stand out at all."
Begg-Smith won silver at the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, leading to some complaints about biased-judging from members of the Australian coaching staff. “Sometimes you’re in the good graces of the judges, sometimes you’re not,” Gold medalist Alex Bilodeau said. “Judged sports can’t be perfect. It can be a bad part of my sport. I see it. But everybody is going to be equal in the end.”
He is considered a recluse by many, and has repeatedly refused to communicate with non-Australian media, Canadian media in particular NBC dubbed him "the most mysterious man of the Winter Olympics" in a piece aired on 14 February 2010, during the Vancouver games.
Begg-Smith is a consist qualifier for World Cup finals, in March 2010 he reached his 48th consecutive final leading Australian moguls coach to say of the accomplishment that "he always qualifies. He has now qualified for 48 straight finals, which is incredible - I don't know if that's a record or not, but I would presume it is." This claim is disputed however as Begg-Smith has missed multiple events due to training or injury, such as his season ending surgery in January 2009. It is unclear whether the coach was claiming whether he had qualified for 48 straight finals or 48 straight finals which he had competed in.
After the Haiti earthquake, Begg-Smith donated his prize money - about $13,670 - to earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
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