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Whistler’s Alexandra Mclean, who is in her first year at the University of British Columbia, was selected to represent Canada at the 2003 World University Games in Tarvisio, Italy. The "Universiade" runs from Jan. 16 to 26.

Guay continues to impress While most athletes would be ecstatic with a sixth place finish in a World Cup downhill, Canada’s Melanie Turgeon was more relieved than excited by her best race of the year on Dec.

Moguls team hits milestone Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau of Drummondville, Quebec, earned a bronze medal last week in World Cup moguls competition at Rukku, Finland.

Canada’s Jaysey-Jay Anderson followed up an eighth place World Cup finish in Whistler last week with a silver medal performance in the parallel giant slalom at Stoneham, Quebec.

It’s been a good ride, punctuated by moments of greatness, for Canadian snowboard legends Mark Fawcett and Darren Chalmers.

Bralorne may just have the highest per capita concentration of skateboarders of any town in the world.

Meeting the Maori challenge

Ski team crawls its way up the rankings KO giant slalom debuts In introducing the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for this season, Alpine Canada Alpin President Ken Read didn’t promise any quick fix for our national medal drought, but asked followers o

Glazier, Nicoll on podium, Vallée, Kopinya in top-10 Some 171 competitors from 17 different countries were in Whistler last weekend to compete in the Nokia FIS World Cup.

Austrian women dominate snowboard World Cup Speed was not as importance as style in the snowboard World Cup parallel slalom in Whistler on Dec. 13, according to Jaysey-Jay Anderson and Jerome Sylvestre, the top Canadians in the race.