Local Sports

It’s been called the sport that has it all: action, drama, comedy and sometimes even romance. Play it once and you’ll understand.

The Squamish Mountain Bike Festival is holding an online auction to raise money for the CKNW Orphan’s Fund and Squamish trail enhancement projects.

Local golf courses are once again supporting the development of young golfers in the Whistler area with the return of the Taylormade Sea to Sky Junior Tour in July.

Local riders held their own against the best in Canada last weekend at the third Canada Cup event of the season at Mont Tremblant, Quebec.

Tournament, sledge hockey demo, to raise money for the B.C.

Canada’s World Cup mountain bike stars are off to a slow start on the tour this year with no podiums in the first races of the year at St. Wendel, Germany, and Fort William. U.K.

Whistler’s Will Routley is holding his own against elite racers from across Canada and the U.S., finishing 18 th overall last weekend in the Canada Cup cross country race in Hardwood Hills, Ontario.

Whistler’s Marie-Catherine Bruno will have to miss her third chance to compete for Canada at the World Orienteering Championships, taking place outside of Zurich, Switzerland this August.

A total of five athletes, four from Whistler, will receive $250 travel grants through the Telus Whistler Sport Centre, helping them to cover costs associated with training and competitions.

Although the first section of the Riverside Trail resembled rush hour on the Lions Gate Bridge for many of the riders, the usual suspects beat the crowd to the top of the long climb to the entrance of Tunnel Vision on Thursday, May 29.