Ryan Wedding’s path from Olympian to wanted fugitive

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After a decade on the run, Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Mexico City. For The National, CBC’s Eli Glasner breaks down Wedding’s unlikely run from Canadian Olympic snowboarder to wanted drug kingpin, described by the FBI as a modern-day El Chapo.

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