Local Sports

IPC abandons disabled athlete classifications and bases results on raw time

BC Alpine released its official team list last week, and as usual members of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club were prominent in the selections.

The open house on the draft plan of the Garibaldi Park Management Plan takes place on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Whistler Conference Centre, providing the public an opportunity to comment on ideas regarding the area of the park surrounding Whistler.

Task Force pleased by response, first-year success

An upgrade to the Whistler Village Bike Park beside Lot 3 was completed last week, with Alpine Bike Parks installing several new features as well as reshaping the area to create rhythm and dirt jump sections.

Olympic champion Ashleigh McIvor retires to save knee, pursue other career goals in skiing

Canada's senior national cross-country team headed to Sweden last week to take part in a series of tune-up races at Bruksvallarna. Although the events are classified as FIS level, a step below the World Cup, the field was anything but amateur.

The Canadian Alpine Ski Team warmed up for the upcoming events at Lake Louise Winterstart by competing at Copper Mountain in Colorado last week, taking part in a series of FIS races that included a giant slalom, super G and downhill.

Humphries on top at Park City, Utah

The 100th edition of the Canadian Football League's Grey Cup match-up takes place this Sunday in Toronto, with the home Argonauts playing host to the Calgary Stampeders.