Local Sports

Grandi in the top-10; Canadians crack the top-20 The Canadian Alpine Ski Team started the New Year with a new resolve last weekend, making strong finishes in Italy and Slovenia.

The Whistler Parks and Recreation basketball league gets underway next week, Jan. 21, with games every Tuesday night for nine weeks. Several teams have already registered, but more teams are welcome to join. The cost to enter a team is $300.

Nordic skiing has long been regarded as one of the most physically demanding sports in the world – one look at the agony, and excess saliva, on the faces of skiers in the Salt Lake City Olympics confirms this.

Anderson, Lamoureux on top for Canada; Whistler women in top 10 Canadian snowboarders finished strong at home with three World Cup medals at Stoneham, Quebec, on Dec. 20 and 21.

U.S. Team nets back-to-back gold medals Thomas Grandi of Canmore, Alberta, was the only Canadian to crack the top-30 in the men’s World Cup competitions in Italy last week, finishing 22 nd in the giant slalom at Alta Badia.

Whistler skier misses first World Cup podium by 0.02 seconds It takes 0.3 seconds for a human eye to blink.

Over the last two weeks I have been racing in Europe, building and improving on my results from the States. I raced on Dec. 22, and again on Dec. 28, and as a result I couldn’t make it back home to Whistler for Christmas.

Local skiers the favourites on freeski world tour When the sixth annual Canadian Freeskiing Championships return to Whistler Jan.

Local cross-country skiing enthusiasts got exactly they needed for Christmas this year – enough snow to at last open the Lost Lake Cross Country Trails system.

It’s been said a thousand times in a thousand different ways, but there really is no place like Whistler. And one of the things that sets us apart is our passion for our sports.