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Canadians on podium; Whistler skiers in top-30 Canada’s top national development team, provincial team and FIS athletes took part in Nor Am races this week, with the women competing at Lake Louise, Alberta and the men at Beaver Creek, Colorado.

It’s been a good ride with moments of greatness. It’s also been a long ride. But more than 18 years since he donned his first bib, Canada’s Mark Fawcett is finally ready to retire from competitive snowboarding.

With the basketball season getting underway, the Whistler Secondary Storm basketball teams are looking for coaches for junior girls and boys, aged 13 to 15. The coaches are needed immediately until the season wraps up at the end of February.

Although the team of Canadian athletes taking part in the Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup events this weekend shrunk with the cancellation of the snowboard cross and big air events, it’s still an impressive list.

Jaysey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant was back on the podium for Canada at Tandadalen, Sweden, last weekend with a bronze medal performance in the parallel giant slalom.

So far the Nordic skiing season is a non-starter this year, but late doesn’t mean never. One day there will be snow on the valley bottom, and when that day comes, you might want to spend it on your cross-country skis.

Snowboard cross moved; halfpipe, big air and parallel giant slalom to go ahead as planned While a slow start to winter has resulted in less than ideal snow conditions, the show, or rather the Snow Scene, must go on.

The Whistler Seikido Martial Arts Association came away from a tournament in White Rock last weekend with a total of four medals. Nine year old Israel Traub, after just three months with the club, earned a gold medal in his age division.

Canadians strong in qualifying, come up short in races With the drought of snow stretching clear across Western Canada, the World Cup speed series at Lake Louise once again took place on a narrow strip of man-made snow winding through dirt, rock and

On Dec. 4, Italian World Cup star Isolde Kostner crashed during a training run on the Olympic Downhill Course at Lake Louise.