Local Sports

Disabled skiers on top in World Cup races The Canadian Disabled Alpine Ski Team (CDAST) athletes won their share of the medals during the recent World Cup races in Abtenau and Wildschonau, Austria.

Cline grabs silver in skier cross The eight annual ESPN X Games are arguably the biggest on-snow event outside of the Olympic Winter Games, and for many winter sports enthusiasts they’re much, much bigger.

Ontario boarder wins big air Canada’s freestyle snowboarders made a strong showing after some time off at Kreischberg, Austria last weekend, competing in two halfpipe events and a big air.

K1’s win gold in every event The Whistler Mountain Ski Club K1 squad (age 11 and 12) started off their competitive season with a strong all-around performance at Cypress Bowl last weekend.

Forsyth in sixth, Janyk in top-30 January 25 was a day of milestones, for Thomas Grandi of Canmore, Alberta and for the Canadian Alpine Ski Team.

The Whistler Whoosh women’s volleyball team came home with a first place finish at the annual Frosbite Rally tournament at the Harry Jerome Sports Centre in Burnaby on Jan. 17.

There was a strong turnout for the second event on the Sprite Park Rider Series calendar, a slopestyle competition in the Blackcomb Terrain Park.

Blowing snow and limited visibility wasn’t enough to keep almost 70 racers from taking part in the third event on the Kokanee Valley Race Series calendar on Jan.

Team earns five more medals at home in Fernie Heading into the Suzuki FIS World Cup at Fernie last weekend, members of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team hoped to keep their streak alive – in the past two weeks the team has won a total of 10 medals

February is a great month for Whistler’s hockey fans with a pair of tournaments featuring former NHL players and the top local talents. Canucks Alumni Game The puck drops on Saturday, Feb.