Local Sports

The Single Track Off Road Mountain Bike Club is hosting a pair of free downhill and freeride mountain biking skills clinics, open to youth aged 7 to 18 of all abilities.

The Whistler Youth Soccer Club will once again feature Saibo Talic and other coaches from the European Football School at their third annual summer soccer camp.

Three Whistler coaches with team in 2003-04 Last week the Canadian Snowboard Federation announced that it would be rehiring all four high performance coaches for next season, three of whom live and coach out of Whistler.

The Sea to Sky Trail Ride will go ahead this year, after arrangements were made to use the Riverside Campground as the overnight stop on the two-day ride.

Tournament features fighters from dojos in Japan, U.S. WHAT: Spirit Whistler 2003 International Karate Championships WHERE: Whistler Secondary gymnasium WHEN: Saturday, June 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

As part of their stated goal of developing Olympic champions for 2010, the Telus Whistler Sport Centre recently sent four Whistler youths to Calgary to participate in a ski jump training session at the Ski Jump Training Centre at Canada Olympic Park.

The Squamish Test of Metal Trials competition, the fourth round of the North American Trials Championship Series, attracted a record number of entries this year, with 18 Americans and two riders from Japan bringing the field up to 78 riders.

Local athletes gave half of 110 per cent last weekend, posting strong results in the 2003 New Balance Half Iron. More than 650 athletes took part, racing solo or as part of a team of three. Held in Victoria, the event includes a 2 km swim, a 91.

Former freestyler launches grassroots campaign for national helmet standards Judging by the number of helmets you see on the slopes and in the skateparks these days, people are finally starting to use their heads.

Chariot races, trials competition part of bike festival weekend With the Test of Metal, the main event of the Squamish Mountain Bike Festival selling out all 800 spots more than two months ahead of this year’s race, it’s safe to say that th