Local Sports

Top names in Whistler for Gravity Festival freeride events The list of athletes participating in the Joyride BikerCross, Air Downhill and Slopestyle Expression Session – featured in the Whistler Summer Gravity Festival – is a virtual who

The turnout was down for the Gravity Fest Mountain Bike Festival in Rossland last weekend but still pretty solid for the fourth B.C. Cup of the 2003 season. Some 131 riders raced in the cross-country event, and 135 in the downhill.

Pilot project provides a venue at home for Canadian snow-sport athletes to train Christmas came about six months early for Canada’s on-snow athletes, with the announcement of a Summer Glacier Training Project for this season.

Whistler’s Matt Chater all but dominated in the Provincial Track Championships at the velodrome in Victoria last weekend, winning two gold medals and three bronzes in different competitions.

There went the neighbourhood. The Whistler Hoary Marmots Rugby Football Club kicked off their 2003 season last weekend at the annual Williams Lake Rustlers Stampede Tournament.

Pre-registration starts next week Riders, pick your poison. Tony Horn, the co-founder of the epic Samurai of Singletrack mountain bike ride, is giving members of the public a chance to design the course themselves for this year’s contest.

Whistler’s Will and Tony Routley traded their mountain bikes for road bikes on Monday to compete in the 2003 Canadian National Road Championships in Pelham, Ontario.

Local full contact karate club athletes first and second in home tournament Karate clubs put their skills and their bodies to the test last Saturday at Spirit Whistler 2003, the second annual full contact Karate Tournament hosted by the Full Contact

Whistler Gravity Festival brings top mountain bikers to Whistler For seven days in July, Whistler will be the epicenter of the mountain bike world, with events ranging from our national mountain bike championships to international bikercross, trials,

The B.C. Cup mountain biking series continued in Panorama last weekend with the annual Mad Trapper cross-country and downhill events.