Whiteout: The Olympic Snowboarder Who Became A Cocaine Kingpin

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder should have been a footnote—a guy who raced once, finished 24th, and faded away. But in early 2026, Ryan Wedding resurfaces as a fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, accused of running a sprawling cocaine network and ordering hits across borders. How did a middle-class kid from a ski family end up here?

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0:00.0	Campside Media.
0:05.1	Hello?
0:06.2	What is this?
0:06.9	What do you want me to say?
0:08.7	Oh, it's just my.
0:10.4	Camelian.
0:11.3	Camillion Weekly.
0:12.8	Oh.
0:15.3	Today's story begins in Thunder Bay, Canada.
0:19.1	An unremarkable town on the shores of Lake Superior in Ontario.
0:23.4	It's where the subject of this episode is born.
0:26.5	His family are ski people.
0:28.6	His grandparents even own a small ski area.
0:31.4	He was one of those kids who was on skis before he could walk.
0:35.8	This is Alyssa Ronek.
0:37.5	I spoke to her just a couple days after she got back from Italy, covering the Milan
0:41.5	Cortina Olympics for ESPN.
0:44.0	His father was a competitive skier in college.
0:48.0	His uncle coached Canada's women's alpine team through the 1992 Olympics in Albertville.
0:56.1	When he was 12, the family moved to Coquitland outside Vancouver.
1:01.3	There were still mountains there, in fact, bigger ones, which is where he switches to snowboarding.
1:06.8	And speaking as a snowboarder who also started out on skis, I get it.
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