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Vancouver-based runner posts time of 1:50:51 on 24km alpine epic

Whistler Mountain Bike Park trail crews are a busy bunch, from physically clearing snow and debris off the trails to get them open, to maintaining the existing 200km network of trails.

Details on how Whistler would stage race are still confidential

Kelowna and Huntsville also shortlisted

24km trail run has been running every September since 1985

Over 240 people come out for classic cross-country running event

While Squamish was playing host to a Super Spartan race this past weekend, the apogee of the series — the 13-mile (21km) Vermont Spartan Beast was playing out in Vermont.

On Tuesday, the countdown clock for the Sochi 2014 Games ticked down to 500 days — 500 days of training, preparing and competing for spots for Canada's Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Canada's goal this time around is a little more modest.

After almost no major changes in almost a decade, the municipality — after consulting skateboarders — removed the wood ramps at the entrance to the park earlier this year and replaced them with a wood "manny" pad with a wood deck, coping

This year's induction ceremony into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame was a somber affair in some ways, with one of the inductees missing.