Local Sports

Law hopes to elevate skiing and sport The key to winning a big mountain freeskiing contest is to take the hardest lines and make them look easy – which is easier said than done.

SPECIAL EVENTS MUSIC FROM PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND>> The newest fiddling sensation out of PEI, 18-year-old Cynthia MacLeod, will get your toes a tappin’ at MY Place along with singer/guitarist Gordon Belsher. The duo will play on Sat. Jan.

The Whistler Gymnastics Club can help your holiday clean-up with a fundraising bottle drive on Jan. 4. The money raised will go to help the Whistler Secondary Storm gymnastics team take part in the provincial championships this March.

Local skiers will be tough to beat on home turf It will be hard to top last year’s Canadian Freeskiing Championships, with skiers dropping huge cliffs and speeding down rocky lines in an icy and tracked out Ruby Bowl, but somehow the athletes al

For big mountain enthusiasts, the Whistler experience really begins at about 8,000 feet and ends in the valley, and not the other way around.

Men’s downhill wiped out by snow, lack of visibility With a knee injury claiming Mont Tremblant’s Erik Guay and World Champion Melanie Turgeon still sidelined with a back injury – she’ll be back sometime this month – the Cana

Recovering from season-ending crash last January only one obstacle racer has overcome After being sidelined for most of a year, Whistler/Vancouver racer Christina Risler made up for lost time last week with the fastest downhill training runs and a pa

Relay cross-country race returns to Ski Fest for a third season One of the attractions of cross-country skiing is the outdoor experience – the fresh air, the exercise and the views.

Atsushi Kato crosses Canada, U.S. by bike It was a long way to go, but in a way that was the whole point of the journey.

Women strong in Europa Cup It was a busy week for Canadian alpine skiers in Europe, with our national team racers in World Cup and Europa Cup competitions.