Local Sports

By Tanya Reck-Petersen and Deb Hillary A group of local freeskiers made a successful trip to Breckenridge, Colorado to compete in the X-Games Qualifier Jan. 9-12.

World Cup team rebounds in European series After a couple of disappointing weeks, the Canadian Alpine Ski Team was back on course last weekend at World Cup events in Switzerland and France.

The first event of the Sprite Park Rider Series, held Jan. 11 in the Blackcomb superpipe, attracted close to 100 different competitors, with lots of skiers and boarders in every age group.

Enthusiasm growing as fast as participation rate You could be forgiven for thinking a pack of skiers were going the wrong way when roughly 60 racers took off from outside the Roundhouse Saturday and started going up Whistler Mountain instead of down.

Three women in top-30 Banff’s Thomas Grandi helped the Canadian Alpine Ski Team start the new year on a strong note, leading the men’s technical team in giant slalom and slalom events at Flachau, Austria last weekend.

New faces on the podium in Bad Gastein, Austria A pair of Canadians found their way to the podium at a pair of night events at Bad Gastein, Austria this week, including some new faces for the team.

Sport just emerging in North America but ‘it’s nothing the average Whistlerite couldn’t do’ Sometimes no matter how well you prepare for an event, things just don’t pan out the way you planned.

Trevor Bruce, Hilary Lindh claim inaugural wins It was a wide cross-section of alpine skiers that turned out to the inaugural Power Vitamins Cup event on the Upper Dave Murray last week, from young up and coming racers to former World Cup stars, incl

The Whistler Mountain Ski Club Masters racers and their coaches are hosting a hot waxing session at the base of Whistler Mountain on Saturday.

Technical races produce plenty of top-10 results The national development team saw a lot of racing last week with five Nor Am Cup competitions for the men at Sunday River, Maine, and four women’s races at Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec.