Local Sports

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.

Cross-country relay, solo race on Sunday There is still time to enter your family or team of three in the annual Lost Lake Shuffle this Sunday, or to race this event as a solo skier.

Local free-heeler wants to make mark among freeskiers Dropping cliffs for a living is a risky way to earn a dollar in the best of conditions, but what about freeskiiers such as local legend Steve Leeder who choose to compete on telemark skis? Telemar

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The Whistler Gymnastics Club raised over $2,070 on their Jan. 4 bottle drive with the help of 10 local bars and nightclubs, bed and breakfasts, and members of the community that donated bottles and cash to the club.

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.