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Rocket Rally Racing finished its first full rally car season in first place with a convincing win at the Rally of the Tall Pines in Bancroft, Ontario, last month in the last event of Canadian season.

Austria’s Hermann "The Hermanator" Maier won the latest round of his battle with Norweigan Lasse Kjus in the Dec. 2 Downhill at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Austria’s Stephan Eberharter finished third.

The first official International Ski Federation (FIS) Big Air event belonged to Whistler’s Dale Begg-Smith, an experienced mogul competitor and a strong national team prospect.

Pemberton’s Kevin Titus, the fastest Master class runner in B.C., became the fastest Master in Canada after winning the Canadian Cross Country Championships in Toronto last weekend.

The highlight reel of the Lake Louise Café de Colombia Alpine Ski World Cup will have few surprises – Hermann Maier celebrating a victory in the finish circle; smiling Austrians on the top of the podium; a Canadian racer crashing into the

Many of the best snowboarders in the universe will converge on Blackcomb next weekend to compete for prize money, pride, and crucial FIS points, redeemable for a chance at Olympic glory at Salt Lake City in 2002.

Rocket Rally Racing finished its first full rally car season in first place with a convincing win at the Rally of the Tall Pines in Bancroft, Ontario, last weekend in the last event of Canadian season.

After finishing a disappointing 15 th in Saturday’s downhill, Austria’s Hermann "The Hermanator" Maier re-established his dominance on the World Cup circuit with a convincing win in Sunday’s super G.

After two days of running around the woods around Logan Lake outside of Kamloops, Whistler’s Marie-Catherin Bruno finally emerged to become the new B.C. orienteering champion.

It may be another couple of months before the W5 Foundation and Alpine Canada decide how they will approach the spring FIS meeting, when next year’s World Cup calendar will be finalized, but Whistler wants a World Cup race.