Local Sports

Hardly a neck could be seen as the Whistler Gymastics Club returned from the KATTS gymnastic club meet in Kamloops last weekend, so many medals had piled up. They also had their hands full with a couple of trophies.

The Chilliwack Chiefs Junior A hockey team, assistant-captained by Whistler’s Matt Gibbons, lost a 4-3 a nail biter in the Royal Bank Cup semi-finals last weekend against the OCN Blizzard from Manitoba. It wasn’t for a lack of trying.

The Whistler Gravity Series is a collection of mountain bike events created to let the less experienced riders get a taste of different kinds of competition, while giving the hardcore riders an opportunity to find out just who the best all around rid

The fields are drying out and the grass is getting greener, which means the spring youth soccer season is ready to go. If you or your child is already on a team, contact your coaches regarding mid-week practices.

Although you wouldn’t know it from the snow report, the ski racing season is over for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. There’s no rest for the determined, however, and dryland training is about to start.

Rugby in Whistler? Strange but true. The Whistler Hoary Marmots have been in existence for 14 years now and are still going strong. Actually you might say that Whistler is in fact a haven for rugby talent.

In many ways, orienteering is the perfect competition, exercising both the body and mind as well as promoting team work.

Two-day festival kicks off bike park opening Although the official opening of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park is something to get excited about, it’s hard to ignore the two-plus metre base of snow a little further up the hill.

The weather could have probably been better, but nevertheless the turnout was huge for the annual Hammerfest bike races in Parksville last weekend, the first B.C. Cup event on the calendar for 2002. The downhill event alone had more than 300 entries.

More than 10,000 runners took to the streets of Vancouver on May 5 to take part in the Adidas Vancouver International Marathon. Almost 4,000 ran in the full marathon of 26 miles (42.2 km), while more than 6,000 others raced the half marathon.