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After a short break for Christmas, Nanaimo’s Allison Forsyth and Whistler’s Britt Janyk were back at it, slashing their way through the gates at the recent World Cup at Semmerling, Austria. Forsyth started strong on Dec.

Kevin Wert of Rossland finished fifth out of 140 competitors at a Dec. 19 Europa Cup downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Skiers, event organizers feel skiing’s governing body will stifle creativity In the mid-1990s, the ski industry was flat-lining. Wounded in the snowboarding revolution, surgeons tried mouth to mouth resuscitation.

Day One Results: It was like something out of the Twilight Zone. When the snow finally settled at the finish line at Val d’Isere, France, on Dec. 16, there wasn’t a single Austrian downhiller on the podium.

Whistler’s Britt Janyk stunned the field with an eight place GS finish in the Sestriere, Italy, World Cup on Monday.

With just under a month to go until the 2001 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships (Jan. 17-21), organizers are busy making the final preparations for this prestigious event.

After some emergency grooming following a two-day, 75-cm dump, the halfpipe at Mont-Sainte-Anne was in fairly good shape for last weekend’s World Cup, albeit with a little less radius and a little more vert than many of the competitors felt comf

Quebec’s Jasey Jay Anderson showed the world that a European passport is not a prerequisite for a World Cup victory with a convincing giant slalom win at Mont-Sainte-Anne on Dec. 17.

The Zero Ceiling Street Youth Program – a joint effort between Whistler’s Chris Winter and the Dusk to Dawn youth shelter in Vancouver – is looking for some snowboard gear for a very worthy cause.