Local Sports

The Canadian Alpine Ski Team will launch its season at Soelden, Austria this weekend at a pair of giant slalom events. Canada will be represented by seven men and two women, including past World Cup medalists.

The Whistler Nordics Club took an unusual step last year in hiring a full-time coach, taking its athletes and membership to another level that is more in line with the opportunities presented by the Olympics.

One again a handful of Whistler runners made it through the draw to take part in the annual Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco, an event where runners are just as likely to find pedicure or chocolate stations on the side of the course as water st

Trail budget for 2008 will top $70,000

Dave and Lindsay Burch on top of trail run

A member of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park patrol airs out on the bottom step-down jump on the giant slalom course on Sunday. The bike park shut down on Monday, Oct.

The Squamish Wolf Pack snapped their five game losing streak at home last Saturday, downing the Ridge Meadows Flames 4-2.

There is less than a month to the annual La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race, a four-day epic that bisects Costa Rica from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea.

The Whistler boys high school soccer team knocked off rivals Pemberton and perennial favourites West Point Grey Academy last week to advance to the provincial A division championships for small schools (80 or fewer boys in Grades 11 and 12).

In what veterans called a “dark day,” the Canadian alpine snowboard team was completely shut out of the playoff rounds at the World Cup opener parallel slalom at Landgraaf, Netherlands.