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The Canadian Alpine Ski Team still has a few tickets left for the 29 th Olympic Winter Games in February, including tickets to the opening/closing ceremonies and alpine events. Tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies are $1,512 Canadian.

Whistler athletes earn medals In the final three days of racing, Canadians captured nine of a possible 15 podium positions at the Lake Louise Nor-Am races.

Beyond the Arctic Circle

While the men’s team showed signs of improvement on the World Cup circuit last weekend, after a hard couple of years at the bottom of the scoreboard, the women’s team uncharacteristically failed to qualify even a single skier for the finals

Swiss racer slices through safety net One of skiing’s fastest rising stars was paralyzed below the chest on Dec.

Melanie Turgeon, the star of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team with four trips to the World Cup podium last year, was among the athletes named to the ballot for the annual Canadian Press Female Athlete of the Year award – otherwise known as the Bobbi

Strong Canadian side looking for World Cup podiums Poor snow conditions at the Mont Ste.

Strong winds may have grounded the air force, but once they had their clearance from ground control, it was business as usual.

Whisler’s Morgan Titus, who is currently attending the University of British Columbia, has qualified to represent Canada at the cross country running world championships in Dublin, Ireland next March.

Turgeon comes close, Kostner claims both downhills Canada’s Melanie Turgeon crashed in the first World Cup downhill of the season, at Lake Louise last week, but came back to place fourth in the second downhill and ninth in the super G.