North Bay snowboarder Tyler Nicholson is one of seven athletes nominated to represent Canada in the slopestyle and big air snowboard events at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.

That announcement today (Tuesday) by the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Snowboard.

The athletes were selected based on their performance in FIS World Cup, World Championship, and World Snowboard Tour events between July 1, 2016 and January 1, 2018.

Nicholson earned his first career X Games medal at the 2017 event in Aspen where he won slopestyle silver.

This will be his first Olympics.

Nicholson just missed qualifying for Sochi 2014.

Prior to being named to Team Canada, all nominations are subject to approval by the COC’s Team Selection Committee following its receipt of nominations by all National Sport Federations in late January 2018.

Check out Nicholson’s bio on Olympic.ca

(file photo – submitted)

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