Local Sports

The Laoyam Eagles of Pemberton got off to a rocky start at the Long Beach Dragon Boat festival last weekend, losing one of their strongest male paddlers to a viral infection he picked up at hockey camp.

Whistler riders came within seconds of taking the podium on the short and extremely technical course at the fourth Canada Cup downhill of the season, last weekend at Silver Star Mountain in Vernon.

If you have a grudge to settle with Whistler’s disc golf course, now’s the time to settle it – in a month’s time it will cease to be. Not that the municipality is leaving the local disc golf community hanging.

Whistler will be entering both men’s and women’s teams in the Molson Slo-Pitch national championships in Whistler this weekend, which started on Aug. 2 with a skills competition and will finish with the finals on Sunday.

Exchange builds skills, relationship among athletes Whistler Mountain Ski Club racers at the K1 (age 11 to 12) and K2 (13 to 14) level are playing host to nine of their Italian counterparts from July 25 to Aug. 7 as part of an athlete exchange.

The first annual Samurai of Singletrack is a sellout, and with six weeks still to go before the contest begins.

WORCA partners with land developers to keep trails open When it was founded in 1990, the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association’s main goal was keeping trails open to the growing mountain bike community.

Two of Whistler’s strongest young swimmers are heading to the regional championships in Vancouver this weekend, after posting some excellent results in June and July.

The Rocket Rally Racing Team easily outdistanced the other factory production cars and finished sixth overall against souped up open class vehicles at the Maine Forest Summer Rally last weekend.

Despite the fact it had to compete with the World Triathlon Championships in Edmonton last weekend, the fourth annual Squamish Triathlon on July 22 shattered all previous attendance records.