Local Sports

Although you wouldn’t know it from the snow report, the ski racing season is over for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. There’s no rest for the determined, however, and dryland training is about to start.

Rugby in Whistler? Strange but true. The Whistler Hoary Marmots have been in existence for 14 years now and are still going strong. Actually you might say that Whistler is in fact a haven for rugby talent.

In many ways, orienteering is the perfect competition, exercising both the body and mind as well as promoting team work.

Two-day festival kicks off bike park opening Although the official opening of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park is something to get excited about, it’s hard to ignore the two-plus metre base of snow a little further up the hill.

The weather could have probably been better, but nevertheless the turnout was huge for the annual Hammerfest bike races in Parksville last weekend, the first B.C. Cup event on the calendar for 2002. The downhill event alone had more than 300 entries.

More than 10,000 runners took to the streets of Vancouver on May 5 to take part in the Adidas Vancouver International Marathon. Almost 4,000 ran in the full marathon of 26 miles (42.2 km), while more than 6,000 others raced the half marathon.

Sport Centre wants "to avoid reinventing the wheel every four years" Most sporting organizations in Canada revolve around the Olympics in some way.

Since the Whistler Mountain Bike Park hosted 18,000 rider visits in 1999, the number of mountain bikers using the park has increased 60 per cent and 55 per cent over the last two seasons to almost 30,000 riders.

The sun was out with a vengeance for the 20 th anniversary of the Mouton Cadet Spring Festival, which was good because many of the competitors in the Restaurant Race needed all the edging they could get.

Make a birdie, and at the same time you can help make a wish come true. The Pemberton Valley Golf and Country Club is looking for sponsors and golfers to take part in a benefit tournament for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.