Local Sports

The 20 th annual Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike Race is now online and accepting entries.

In last weeks coverage of the Canadian Club Champions Championship at the Whistler Golf Course, we forgot to mention one local golfer who participated.

No podiums, but promising results at Quebec World Cup The Canadian leg of the UCI World Cup tour got off to a fast start last weekend with downhill, cross-country and 4-cross events at Mont-Sainte-Anne.

A busy Canada Day long weekend and work demands took its toll on the Whistler Hoary Marmots Rugby Club, which was unable to field a full side for the annual Williams Lake 15-a-side Rugby Tournament.

Locals among World Cup competitors at Grouse Last year Victoria’s Roland Green was in the lead heading into the final stretch of the Grouse Mountain World Cup cross-country race when he flatted out.

Whistler Gravity Series organizer Paul Fournier pulled the plug on his mountain bike series last week, when it looked like he would have to cancel the second of three events.

Ontario golf pro claims club championship A couple of well-timed birdies was all it took for Brad Pemberton of Port Hope, Ontario to win the 17 th annual Canadian Club Champions Championship at the Whistler Golf Club last week.

While three teams and a group of individual performers from the Whistler Dance Academy were in Banff this week, participating in the Western Canada Dance Championships, the academy was presenting prizes to the people who helped to pay the costs to ge

The B.C. Cup mountain bike racing series continued last weekend with the Mad Trapper cross-country, downhill and dual slalom events at Panorama Mountain Village. While fewer Whistler cyclists turned out to race in the competition than in other B.C.

Marathoners to raise $10K for arthritis society It’s a long way to finish line, but it’s an even longer way to the start for a pair of Whistler runners in training for their first marathon.