Local Sports

If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand, fingers, toes and tendons on a rock wall, Great Wall is offering rock climbing familiarization tours in the Cal-Chek area. There are still open spots for the June 29 group, which runs from 1 to 5 p.m.

With the Test of Metal mountain bike weekend over for another year, there is one endurance race that adrenaline junkies might want to circle on their calendars – 2001: A Bike Odyssey, featuring the 19 th annual Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic M

The Whistler-Blackcomb team outran and outcanvassed the competition at the 22 nd annual 24 Hour Relay for the Kids in Vancouver last weekend. They raised $29,260 for B.C.

Despite the fact that this is his first year ever on a road bike – and despite the fact that he has only entered one road competition – Whistler’s Tyler West has been selected to race for the B.C.

On June 24, five Whistlerites took part in the New Balance half-Ironman at Elk Lake, a wooded area just outside of Victoria. The course consisted of a two kilometre swim, a 90 km bike ride with tight cornering, and a 20 km run around Elk Lake.

If the earliest sellout on record is any indication, the 2001 Squamish Test of Metal and Mountain Bike Festival has already earned the right to call itself the most notorious bike events on the continent, offering thrills, chills, and more than enoug

Some of the best setters and spikers in the province will be in Whistler on July 3 and 4 to participate in the Fifth Annual Whistler Resort Volleyball Challenge.

Although he felt like a fish out of water on the road bike, it didn’t take long for Whistler mountain biker Tyler West to evolve.

The Whistler Tennis Club has a new club pro in Matty Jensen, a long-time member of the club who recently received her Certification from B.C. Tennis.

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