Local Sports

On Oct. 8 the women’s World Cup technical team left Canada for Austria and our final camp of the training season.

The Whistler Secondary senior boys soccer team just won the Level A zone finals, and will represent the Howe Sound School District at the Level A provincial championships. They tied Pemberton 1-1 and beat Mt.

The racing season is still a long way off for members of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, but training is well underway as athletes participate in group dryland sessions in Whistler and Vancouver.

After battling a knee injury all season, Whistler’s Tony Routley earned a mountain biking bronze medal at the Masters’ World Games in Melbourne, Australia, in early October.

In their annual resort guide issue, Transworld Snowboarding released a list of the top 10 places to ride in North America. As usual, Whistler-Blackcomb made the top 10 for all three criteria, and was named the top overall snowboard resort.

A group of Whistler runners took part in the Portland Marathon and the Kelowna Marathon and Half Marathon last weekend. In Portland, Paul Nicholas, 34, finished 79 th out of more than 3,000 men with his time of two hours, 59 minutes and 48 seconds.

Mae Palm second in category The World Ironman Championships in Kona, Hawaii typically take place under a tropical sun with gusting winds that can knock you off your bike.

After more than a decade at the top of the sport of freestyle skiing, Jean-Luc Brassard of Grande-Ile, Quebec, announced his retirement on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Ridership up 60 per cent again this season In its fourth year of operation, rider numbers for the Whistler Mountain Bike Park are showing no signs of levelling off.

Season opens with a GS in Austria on Saturday The Alpine World Cup ski season opens this weekend with GS events in Soelden, Austria, and if the starting list is any indication it’s already shaping up be a year to remember, as a record six Canadi