Local Sports

The top downhillers in Canada will be in Whistler from Aug. 7 to 9 to train for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Austria at the end of the month.

A group of local triathletes went to Penticton for July 21 to participate in the annual Investors Group Peach Classic Triathlon Championships. It’s an Olympic-length triathlon with a 1.5 kilometre swim, a 40 km bike ride and a 10 km run.

Top cyclists drop out as heat, crashes, and mechanical problems take their toll With temperatures in the mid-30s, and the riders kicking up stampede-sized clouds of dust, the cross-country field at the Tim Hortons Canadian Mountain Bike National Cham

Allen, Baker, Morland win gold at Sun Peaks Whistler downhillers made their presence felt at the Tim Hortons Canadian Mountain Bike Championships at Sun Peaks, Kamloops, last weekend, winning five medals and making several top 10 appearances.

The Whistler Hoary Marmots Rugby Football Club fielded a men’s and women’s team at the 20 th anniversary of the Simon Fraser University Highland Summer 7’s Tournament on July 20.

The third stop of the Callaway Sea to Sky Junior Tour belonged to 17-year-old Brian Thom. Playing at his home course, the Squamish Valley Golf Club, Thom shot a three-under par 69 to win the day, as well as the 15 to 18 age division.

My legs burned and my lungs ached as I jogged up the steep dirt road, somewhere in the middle of a pack of more than 200 racers.

Three-time World Cup gold medallist Rob Boyd will be taking the road named after him to work next season, as he joins the Whistler Mountain Ski Club – on Rob Boyd Way – as the new K2 Head Coach.

Hundreds of mountain bikers converged on Kamloops last weekend to race in the fifth cross-country and downhill events on the provincial calendar, as well as the fourth dual slalom.

Alpine Canada Alpin inked a five-year, multi-million dollar skiwear agreement with Spyder Active Sports on July 16.