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Canadians finish with two medals, and top results Nanaimo’s Allison Forsyth turned her entire season around with a pair of inspired giant slalom runs at the Alpine Ski World Championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland on Feb.

Some of our top Whistler skiers took part in the U.S. Freeskiing Open in Vail, Colorado, from Feb. 6 to 9, and are bringing home their fair share of the medals and prize money. Events included a big air, a halfpipe, a slopestyle and a skier cross.

Quebec alpine star wins Canada’s first world championship title in a decade; Canadians coming through It’s been 10 long years since a Canadian won at the Alpine World Ski Championships – Kate Pace was last to accomplish this feat in Ja

The Sprite Park Rider Series hosted its third event on Sunday, Feb. 9, a slopestyle competition on Blackcomb.

B.C. Masters Championship this weekend Getting older and going downhill are not the same thing, unless of course you take the phrase literally and sign up to ski in the B.C. Masters Championship this weekend. The event is sanctioned by B.C.

Close to 140 cross-country racers turned out to the 26 th annual Fairmont Chateau Whistler Cup cross-country ski loppet on Feb. 9, including more than 50 Jackrabbits aged 13 and younger.

A group of 20 Whistler runners took part in the Pacific Road Runners Half Marathon in Vancouver on Feb. 9, and almost all of them finished the race in under two hours.

Whistler tumblers net two all-around gold medals The Whistler Gymnastics Club came out flying in its first meet of the year, a floor and bars contest in Vancouver on Feb. 9.

Victoria’s Roland Green, the reigning world cross-country mountain bike champion, took one for his team by spending 10 gruelling days in the saddle of his road bike in the Malaysia Tour de Langkawi 2003.

The Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom is an epic in the world of snowboarding with an all-star cast.