Local Sports

Christmas came early for Alpine Canada Alpin this year, with General Motors Canada renewing its sponsorship of the Pontiac GMC Cup and Canadian Championships through to the next Winter Olympics at Turin, Italy in 2006.

Aside from some rain on Sunday and a few first-year bugs, the inaugural Whistler Mountain Bike Festival last weekend was a success according to event organizer Richard Juryn of Shore Events.

Max Vert Enduro, Junk Bike Wars highlight bike park closing weekend The Whistler Mountain Bike Park will wrap another season at the end of the day Oct. 13, after five months in operation. It’s been a good year.

Alpine Canada Alpin (ACA) presented its 2002 Awards of Excellence at Milestones in Whistler on Sept. 21. The prestigious President’s Award was given to Ozzie Sawicki, the head coach of the Canadian Disabled Alpine Ski Team.

In memory of Tony Tyler and his contributions to Whistler Minor Hockey, the Tapley’s Pub old-timers hockey club is holding a golf tournament and fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 11.

The Whistler Slo-pitch League wrapped up for the season Saturday, Sept. 21, with the presentation of awards for the top teams in regular season and the playoffs in the five local competitive divisions.

Whistler Mountain Bike Festival is a lot of everything There’s an unwritten rule that can be universally applied to almost anything in Whistler, and can be summed up in just two words – go big.

Kassel wins first Fall Classic With the driest course conditions in many years, the racers looked unusually clean coming through the finish line at the 20 th anniversary of the Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike Race Saturday, Sept. 21.

For the first time, Basketball B.C. and NBA star Steve Nash are sponsoring a Sea to Sky Youth Community Basketball League in the corridor, running from Nov. 2 to April 3.

Podium 2010 is intended to make Canada a world power in skiing To understand that things are changing at Alpine Canada Alpin you only have to read to the second paragraph of Chairman Renaud Beauchesne’s report on the 2002 season.