On Saturday, February 28, 2026, the Town of Parry Sound is hosting “An Olympic Homecoming with Megan Oldham” at the Charles W. Stockey Centre. Doors open at 11:00 AM, the program begins at 11:30 AM, and autographs run until 1:30 PM. Then the celebration spills onto James Street for a downtown street party from 12:30–3:30 PM, with Megan joining the street party at 1:30 PM. It’s free admission, first come, first served—the perfect setup for a town that believes pride is something you practice together.
Parry Sound has always been good at the quiet kind of pride—the kind you feel before you say anything at all. But this week, the pride isn’t quiet. It’s painted in big letters across downtown windows: HOME TOWN PROUD. It’s printed in bold gold type beneath the Olympic rings. It’s hand-drawn in sweeping red-and-white ribbons and winter-bright celebrations that stop people on the sidewalk and make them smile.
Because Megan Oldham came home with something the whole town can hold up together: an Olympic bronze medal in women’s freeski slopestyle and an Olympic gold medal in women’s freeski big air at Milano Cortina 2026. The bronze came first—earned the hard way, after a crash in the slopestyle final and then a reset that only elite athletes can pull off: calm, precise, and stubbornly determined when it mattered most. She put down her best run under pressure and secured third place for Canada.
And then she reached even higher.
In women’s big air, with weather and delays turning the venue into a waiting game, Megan delivered when the moment demanded it. She won gold with a total score of 180.75, holding off an extraordinary field. That number—180.75—isn’t just a statistic. It’s the end point of thousands of repetitions: jumps refined in wind, in flat light, in perfect conditions, and in the messy in-between when athletes learn to keep going anyway.
What makes this story feel so “Parry Sound” is that it was never only about medals. It was about years—years of fun that began as a kid on family ski trips, and years of work that turned fun into form. Freestyle Canada’s athlete bio captures that arc: Megan started skiing young, but didn’t truly commit to the sport until her mid-teens—when the choice became hers, and the dream became something she built, day by day.
Now Parry Sound gets to answer that work with something equally deliberate: showing up.
On Saturday, February 28, 2026, the Town of Parry Sound is hosting “An Olympic Homecoming with Megan Oldham” at the Charles W. Stockey Centre. Doors open at 11:00 AM, the program begins at 11:30 AM, and autographs run until 1:30 PM. Then the celebration spills onto James Street for a downtown street party from 12:30–3:30 PM, with Megan joining the street party at 1:30 PM. It’s free admission, first come, first served—the perfect setup for a town that believes pride is something you practice together.
So let’s make it a full room and a full street. Bring your kids, your neighbours, your rink friends, and the people who don’t follow skiing but understand what it means when someone from a small community becomes world-class. The windows are already doing their part.
Now it’s our turn.
