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It’s been a good ride, punctuated by moments of greatness, for Canadian snowboard legends Mark Fawcett and Darren Chalmers.

Bralorne may just have the highest per capita concentration of skateboarders of any town in the world.

Meeting the Maori challenge

Ski team crawls its way up the rankings KO giant slalom debuts In introducing the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for this season, Alpine Canada Alpin President Ken Read didn’t promise any quick fix for our national medal drought, but asked followers o

Glazier, Nicoll on podium, Vallée, Kopinya in top-10 Some 171 competitors from 17 different countries were in Whistler last weekend to compete in the Nokia FIS World Cup.

Austrian women dominate snowboard World Cup Speed was not as importance as style in the snowboard World Cup parallel slalom in Whistler on Dec. 13, according to Jaysey-Jay Anderson and Jerome Sylvestre, the top Canadians in the race.

The Telus Whistler Sports Centre was created to help athletes reach their potential, in sports and in life.

Whistler-Blackcomb’s Super J4 program and the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) have adopted the Husky Snow Stars curriculum that was announced last month.

The Pemberton-Whistler Shito Ryo Karate Club held its Winter Junior Tournament on Dec. 11 at the Pemberton Dojo, the Signal Hill School gymnasium. Almost 30 Karateka Kids, aged 5 to 12, participated, with friends and family coming out to watch.

Whistler’s Michael Janyk, a member of the national development ski team, injured his knee during a FIS giant slalom race in Italy on Dec. 13. Janyk started 31 st and had moved up to 10 th after his first run when the injury took place.