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Day One Results: It was like something out of the Twilight Zone. When the snow finally settled at the finish line at Val d’Isere, France, on Dec. 16, there wasn’t a single Austrian downhiller on the podium.

Whistler’s Britt Janyk stunned the field with an eight place GS finish in the Sestriere, Italy, World Cup on Monday.

With just under a month to go until the 2001 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships (Jan. 17-21), organizers are busy making the final preparations for this prestigious event.

After some emergency grooming following a two-day, 75-cm dump, the halfpipe at Mont-Sainte-Anne was in fairly good shape for last weekend’s World Cup, albeit with a little less radius and a little more vert than many of the competitors felt comf

Quebec’s Jasey Jay Anderson showed the world that a European passport is not a prerequisite for a World Cup victory with a convincing giant slalom win at Mont-Sainte-Anne on Dec. 17.

The Zero Ceiling Street Youth Program – a joint effort between Whistler’s Chris Winter and the Dusk to Dawn youth shelter in Vancouver – is looking for some snowboard gear for a very worthy cause.

Two weeks after crashing into the fence at Lake Louise – knocking himself out, partially separating his right shoulder, and having A silver stud ripped from his lower lip – Kevin Wert was back on his skis and racing in the Val d’Isere

For the second-time in three days, Canadian Jasey Jay Anderson settled for a second place in World Cup snowboarding competition on Blackcomb. In the Nokia World Cup GS on Dec.

Farmand skips halfpipe to celebrate German podiums It was a battle that neither competitor is likely to forget.