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Women’s ski team prepared for opening GS

With about 10 full-time sports networks on television these days you get to see a lot of unusual activities – jai alai, tractor racing, sandboarding – but try as you might, you’ll likely never see anything as strange as the Annual Sea

The Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii on Oct. 6 are always a test of character, and this year was no exception.

Lumpy would be proud.

The Canadian Alpine Ski Team (CAST) is well on its way to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, with nine team members already qualifying for the Games.

Riders go downhill to raise funds for Foreplay More than 30 downhillers took part in the first, and hopefully annual, WORCA Max Vert Enduro last weekend, squeezing in as many laps of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park as possible in a three-hour period.

The Canadian women will be looking for a little home hill support when they take on the world at the Lake Louise Winterstart World Cup, which features both downhill and super-G races – the only World Cup races being held in Canada in the 2001-20

Aside from having two bucks left in the bank, the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA) has nothing but good things to say about this past year, and bright aspirations for next year. WORCA held its annual general meeting on Sept.

The Tapley?s Pub old-timers hockey club is holding a golf tournament and fund-raising social on Friday, Oct. 5, in memory of Tony Tyler.

According to the most recent survey, the average member of the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association rides a lot, likes to race for social reasons, and is reasonably well off.