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Canadian alpine skier and politician

For the storyteller, cook, activist and model of a similar name, see Nancy Green.

Nancy Catherine Greene RaineOC OBC OD (born May 11, 1943) is a former Canadian Senator for British Columbia and an Olympic alpine champion voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century.

She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Greene Raine won the giant slalom in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

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After being appointed to the Senate in 2009, Greene Raine retired on May 11, 2018, when she reached the mandatory retirement age of 75.

She is the mother of retired alpine skier Willy Raine.

Biography

Greene was born on May 11, 1943, in Ottawa, Ontario.

She moved with her family to Rossland, British Columbia,^[4] before she was three years of age. Rossland is a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in 1897. Greene began schussing at a young age and while in high s