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Looking at their results from the season, it was only a matter of time before the Canadian Ski Cross Team women swept a podium. The men's team swept a podium last season, setting the challenge for the women's team to do the same.

Organizers managed to get a grip on more than 20 cm of new snow on March 11 to get the Kokanee Valley Race Series giant slalom underway, with more than 50 skiers passing up the same snow to crash a few gates.

While she may not be the dominant skier of years past, Alberta's Jennifer Heil remains one of the most consistent.

A clear night overnight on Saturday set the stage for a fast Whistler Blackcomb Ski and Snowboard Cross competition on Sunday, with 140 skiers and snowboarders of all ages taking part.

According to the 2009 Canadian Community Health Survey, roughly half of Canadians said they were a few pounds/kilograms over their ideal weight and around 17 per cent of Canadians were classified as obese. While B.C.

It's a long drive to Terrace, B.C., but for several locals who made the trip to represent Zone 5 at the B.C. Winter Games it was worth it.

Whistler’s Phil Chew analyzes some of the skiers he’s helped reach the Paralympics

When Whistler hosted the Para-Alpine World Cup finals last spring, a test event for the 2010 Paralympics, the biggest highlight belonged to Rossland's Kimberly Joines.

The Whistler Nordics sent a large team of athletes to the B.C. Midgets Championship at Larch Hills Ski Area outside of Salmon Arm last weekend, with more than 180 kids born between 1997 and 2000 taking part.

The world's top freestyle athletes went from rain at Cypress to fog in Japan as the World Cup tour resumed last weekend at Inawashiro.