Local Sports

Two is company this year for the B.C. Ski Team, which has just two names on the women’s roster for the 2002-2003 season. On Aug. 9 B.C.

Four Whistler riders on the list On Aug. 7, the Canadian Cycling Association announced the team that will represent Canada at the 2002 World Mountain Bike Championships. The races will be held at Kaprun, Austria, between Aug. 24 and Sept. 1.

Between the Squamish Winter League and the Whistler Summer League, Petern Wortman believes that Whistler is capable of fielding a top shelf all-star soccer team.

There are now nine more people in Whistler not to mess with. Although it has only been open since May, Whistler Seikido last week handed out new belts and stripes to the first group of students to enrol at the dojo.

Ultimate Outdoor Adventures, the organizers of the Brandywine O’Challenge orienteering competitions, are hosting a first for Canada next spring on the Sunshine Coast – the Canadian Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships.

September is now unofficially mountain bike month in Whistler with events on the calendar on every single weekend. The 10 th annual West Side Wheel-Up takes place on Sept. 7. The Samurai of Singeltrack takes place the following Saturday.

Nobody made par 71 on the fifth stop of the Callaway Sea to Sky Junior Tour at Furry Creek on July 31, but seven of the 31 golfers who took part came close with sub-80 rounds on the challenging and windy course.

Once again all three Whistler golf courses and one Pemberton course have been recognized as being among the top 100 courses in Canada by Score golf magazine.

The proceeds from the hundreds of hot dogs served during the 2002 Joyride Bikercross event on July 3 was presented to the local Zero Ceiling program which provides mountain experiences to street youth from Greater Vancouver.

Whistler’s Clare Buchar on top in downhill While some of the top names in Canadian mountain biking were either racing in the Commonwealth Games or training for the World Cup, last weekend’s Kokanee Canada Cup Mountain Bike Series Final at F