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Ruth Bonneville / Free Press LOCAL/SPORTS - Brita Hall Copy of photo taken with Brita and her family in Austria in 1993. . Copy photos her mom, Birgit Hall’s, past competitions. Also, photos of Brita in her room with all her medals on the wall. Ahead of her trip to the World Winter Games in Turin, Italy next month, MB Sports Hall of Famer Brita Hall is deep in training mode. The four-time Paralympian, at age 55, continues to not only compete, but improve in cross-country skiing, building on a skillset she started developing as a teenager. Over the course of a long career in Nordic sports in Manitoba, Hall has been a trailblazer, becoming the first Special Olympic athlete to be enshrined in the MB Sports Hall of Fame last fall. See story by Ben Waldman February 19/25