Canadian fugitive ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding seen in new FBI photo [Video]

The FBI has released a new photo of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder accused of running a transnational drug trafficking network.

The new photo shows Wedding staring at a mobile phone while seated at what appears to be a restaurant table. His look is dramatically different from the 2013 headshot that the FBI previously published.

“Agents believe [the new photo] was taken in 2024,” FBI spokesperson Laura Eimiller told CBC News in an email.

She said she didn’t have the precise location of where it was taken.

Wedding is seen on the left in an official portrait before competing for Canada at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. CBC News has learned the headshot on the right, distributed in October 2024 by the FBI, was taken for a 2013 Canadian driver’s licence. (Canadian Olympic Committee; FBI)

U.S. authorities announced last month that Wedding, 43, …

Watch/Read More