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Although it may not feel like it in the valley, the winter competitive snowboarding season wrapped up last weekend with the Showcase Showdown halfpipe and quarterpipe contests.

Bad news for the 2008 Toronto Olympic bid may be good news for the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympic Bid.

Of all the sports that Whistler has to offer, I’ll bet most of you never thought there was a rugby club up in the mountains.

Although you wouldn’t know it by the snow report, it’s spring in the Valley.

Wine may not have that much to do with the actual game of tennis unless your name is John McEnroe and you add an ‘h’ after the ‘w’.

Vert ramp history made by Brazilian skater Most spectators went into the eighth Slam City Jam skateboard contest expecting to see the world's best street park and vert ramp skaters doing the things that made them famous.

EVENTS WHAT: Showcase Showdown WHERE: Whistler Mountain WHEN: May 12 Halfpipe, May 13 Quarterpipe The last snowboard event of the season, expect local amateurs and pros to hold nothing back.

For the second year in a row, Whistler Mountain Ski Club racer Tyler Duncan was selected by his teammates as the Sportsman of the Year for his positive attitude. His teammates weren’t the only people to notice.

Last snowboard event of the season brings out the pros This weekend, for the fourth year in a row, Showcase Snowboards will be hosting their Showcase Showdown, featuring a halfpipe competition on Saturday (May 12) and a 20-foot quarterpipe on Sunday.

The last Nike Series halfpipe of the season got off to a slow start on May 5 with event staff and volunteers digging more than half a metre of new snow out of the pipe.