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Vancouver Now Depleted alpine team not lowering Olympic goal Home Medals Results Canadian Results Schedule DaytoDay Schedule Athletes Featured Athletes Team Canada Full Athlete List News Venues Forums Blogs Videos Photos The GamesPast & Present Interactive Features SportsCurling Hockey Skating Figure Skating Short Track Speed Skating Skiing Alpine Skiing Biathlon CrossCountry Skiing Freestyle Skiing Nordic Combined Ski Jumping Sliding Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton Snowboarding Hot TopicsCanada vs US Sidney Crosby Hockey gold Closing ceremony Canadian Olympians Joannie Rochette Follow CBCListen to CBCRadio VancouverMultiLanguage BulletinsMandarinRussianArabicSpanishStory Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Depleted alpine team not lowering Olympic goalLast Updated Friday December 18 2009 900 PM ET The Canadian Press Kelly VanderBeek hurt her left knee this week in France ruling her out for the Olympics (Franck FifeAFPGetty ImagesThe Canadian ski team may be hurting but the determination to win at least three medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games remains strong and healthyWere not striving for mediocrity Gary Allan Alpine Canadas president said Friday Weve been able to build a very deep roster of athletes Were still striving for those three medalsFrancois Bourque became the fifth Canadian skier in less than a month to be knocked out of the Games when he ripped up his knee Friday in a supergiant slalom race in Val Gardena Italy He joins injured potential medallists John Kucera and Kelly VanderBeek who also will miss the OlympicsPaul Kristofic head coach of Canadas mens team said having fewer athletes increases the challenge of reaching the medal countYou lose key contenders in different events and you start to limit your possibilities Kristofic said in an interview from Val Gardena You have to know we have guys and girls that are quite strong and quite capable to achieve those resultsIts a bigger challenge The target was always to have top performances The racers that we bring are capable of thatOwn the Podium the $117million program aimed at helping Canada win more medals than any other country at the 2010 Games has set a goal of winning two skiing medals at the Olympics Alpine Canada which has received more than $10 million in funding from the program more than any other sport has raised that to three medals including one goldAllan still considers that achievableYou look at the odds and how things have changed he said You want to have obtainable goals At this point there is no need to amend anythingCanadian skiers have been on the podium three times in World Cup racers so far this seasonManuel OsborneParadis won the opening superG race of the season at Lake Louise Alta Emily Brydon had a second and third in the first womens downhill races...