US officials announced a $15 million reward for the capture of Ryan Wedding on November 19. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Competing for Team Canada, Ryan Wedding finished as the 24th-best parallel giant slalom snowboarder in the world at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Over two decades later, he’s now part of another distinctive group: The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

“Make no mistake about it: Ryan Wedding is a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. He’s a modern-day iteration of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in November, referring to the notorious drug lords.

Wedding’s current whereabouts, believed to be somewhere in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel, are now the focus of an international manhunt and a $15 million reward for his capture in a case of

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