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Golf and dinner package raises money for elite athletes On Sept.

The ninth annual West Side Wheel Up mountain bike race takes place this Saturday, Sept. 7, and is open to anyone.

The Whistler Women’s Hockey League is holding its annual try-out night and draft on Thursday, Sept. 12, between 8:15 and 9:30 p.m. at Meadow Park Arena.

A group of four local mountain bikers from the Whistler Bike Co. won the four person title at the 24 Hours of Adrenaline mountain bike race last weekend at Silver Star with 28 laps of the course from noon on Saturday until noon on Sunday.

The annual Whistler Triathlon and Duathlon scheduled for Sept. 15 has been cancelled this year due to issues surrounding the bike route, which traditionally uses Alta Lake Road.

The list of participants has been announced for the annual Strut Your Stuff Whistler Community Registration Fair, which takes place this Saturday, Sept. 7, at Whistler Secondary between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Whistler Seawolves Swim Club season will start its second year this fall, after a successful first season.

Spots are still open for the 2002 Nike ACG Sea2Summit Adventure Race, a point-to-point, multi-day, multi-sport challenge from Minaty Cove to Whistler.

Green, Hesjedal in medals at World Championships Victoria’s Roland Green captured his second UCI Mountain Bike World Championship cross-country title in as many years on Sept. 1 in Kaprun, Austria.

For snow lovers, the blockbuster season isn’t summer but the fall, when film companies release all their footage from last season.