Kingsbury's 'last dance': Canadian freestyle legend confirms he'll end his career with last race in Quebec

Before all the medals, awards and accolades, at his family cottage at Sommet Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentian Mountains just north of Montreal, Canadian moguls superstar Mikaël Kingsbury dreamed of being an Olympic champion.

The cottage backs onto the ski hill and an eight-year-old Kingsbury would exhaustively go up and down that hill; his mom carried a walkie-talkie inside the cottage, Kingsbury carried one on the hill, so they could communicate when it was safe to speed down the slope.

His destiny was being carved into that snow even before he could imagine what was meant for him in this sport.  

In storybook fashion, Kingsbury, now 33, is finishing his unparalleled moguls career on the hill on which it all began 25 years ago. 

In an exclusive interview with CBC Sports, the five-time Olympic medallist confirmed he’s retiring at the end of competition this weekend at the Canadian freestyle ski championships – on Sommet Saint-Sauveur. 

“The last dance. I'm ready for it. It's been in the back of my mind for quite a long time. And it was in the back of my mind since I'd say September, where I started thinking about it and I knew it was clear in my head,” Kingsbury said sitting inside that formative cottage.  

“To have done my first race here in my life, like a mogul skiing competition and finishing on that, that's kind of my full circle moment.”

Kingsbury is the most dominant moguls skier in history, amassing 100 career World Cup wins and nine world championship titles. Last month, in his fourth Olympics, he won silver and an historic dual moguls gold to cap off his illustrious career. 

“Now I can say I won everything. And my goal was to win the Olympics and retire. I have no regrets. It's not like I'm missing something,