Local Sports

After four crazy days and nights, the World Snowboarding Championship wrapped up in Mountain Square with more than 15,000 spectators and an annual Big Air contest that gets bigger every year.

Dozens of Whistler and Pemberton locals took part in the annual 10K Vancouver Sun Run on April 22, jostling their way through a record crowd of 45,080 people, more than 35,000 of whom were runners.

More than 200 amateur and professional skateboarders in the world, not to mention the best homegrown talent, will be in Vancouver from May 4 to 6 to compete in the annual Slam City Jam, part of the Vans Triple Crown of Skateboarding.

Every two years, the Whistler Skating Club holds an ice carnival to show off the talents of our local figure skaters. This year the theme is "Safari on Ice," and there are shows on May 5 at 2 and 7 p.m.

The first Loonie Race of the 2001 season took place April 22 on Pemberton’s snow-free single track. Although the clouds were threatening rain all afternoon all they did was keep the racers cool.

Time to dig out the cleats, the jerseys, the fungicide and the first aid kit – the Whistler Hoarey Marmots Rugby Football Club is starting its spring pick-up season on May 3 at Whistler Secondary.

If your minor league motivational and inspirational talks are largely based on the "lolligag" speech from Bull Durham, then you could probably benefit from the Minor Baseball Coaches Clinic, 9 a.m. on April 28 at Myrtle Philip school.

Award recognizes work with women in sports The International Olympic Committee has named Vancouver’s Marion Lay the winner of the its Women and Sport Trophy for the Americas for 2001.

This weekend’s World Snowboarding Championship is not just another event on the pro snowboard tour – with both the competing Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS) and International Snowboard Federation (ISF) tours all wrapped up and the at

After years of giving it to their competitors, NHL alumni are giving it back to the community.