Local Sports

Slopestyle, national competitions in Gravity Fest lineup The Whistler Summer Gravity Festival kicks into high gear this weekend with a slopestyle event in the new terrain park at the base of Whistler Mountain and the Tim Hortons Mountain Bike Nationa

Whistler athletes went three for three at the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Edmonton last weekend, qualifying for upcoming world championships in New Zealand and Portugal. It was an Olympic distance competition, which includes a 1.

Top riders tackle Whistler’s A-Line The A-Line run in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park is widely touted as the most ridden bike trail in the world, and for good reason – it’s wide, it’s fast, and it’s almost impossible not to

Alternating between rain and slightly softer rain all day, there was some concern that the conditions could turn the third annual Joyride Bikercross on Monday night into mud wrestling.

Local runners first, third and fifth in epic trail run Although he swore he would never do it again after finishing second last year with assorted cramps and aches and pains, Kevin Titus returned to the Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run last Satu

Snowcovers Sports and Trek Bicycles awarded Nick Lacko of Winnipeg,, Manitoba the title of "privateer racer" in its first annual "Adopt a Privateer" contest.

Support for Olympic athletes enhanced by successful bid With the Olympics coming to B.C. in six and a half years, there is a renewed enthusiasm for training future Olympians to succeed at home.

Not content to dominate in the Alcan International Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver two weeks ago, Pemberton’s paddlers headed to Indian Arm last weekend to race in the 12 kilometre Lotus Club Outrigger race.

North Shore Mountain Biking is hosting a charity auction for Blair Jones of Kamloops, who sustained a spinal cord injury while riding last season. Friends hope to raise $10,000 for a four-wheel downhill chair to get him back on the trails.

Justin Patjas second in province, has his eyes on the nationals Eleven-year-old Justin Patjas was leading the Canadian Motocross Racing Club’s Fall Series last year, the top circuit in the province, when he was involved in a head-on collision on