Local Sports

After several weeks of sunshine and hard-packed conditions, the weather finally provided some timely fresh snow for the Whistler-Blackcomb Powder 8 competition. Whistler weather, however, is not without a sense of humour.

The second Sprite Park Rider Series snow cross was held in some difficult conditions on March 15, with choppy snow and periods of poor visibility challenging the athletes to stay on course.

The weather could have been nicer for the CIBC Wood Gundy K1 Provincials at Mount Washington this past weekend, but things couldn’t have gotten much better for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club.

If your idea of a good time includes a two-stroke snowmobile and a huge table top jump to do supermans off of, you may be right for the third annual World Freestyle Snowmobile Competition.

Event organizer and promoter Tyler Mosher has three things to say about Dual Mountain Rally 2003, scheduled for the evening of Friday, April 4 and all day Saturday.

Quebec snowboarder wins third world championship title It wasn’t the best season for Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, but it was good enough for the 27-year-old to claim a record third straight overall World Cup title.

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Whistler skier fifth in GS With one week to go before the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway, the Canadian men’s and women’s teams made one final push.

Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival still has qualifying spots The Ripzone Snowboard Invitational and the Garnier Fructis World Skiing Invitational, the marquis events of the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, are still looking for a few good

Although he didn’t win any medals in the halfpipe at last year’s Ripzone Invitational, part of the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, it became abundantly clear that Whistler’s Crispin Lipscomb deserved to be counted among the bes