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There’s being a natural athlete and then there’s this. Canmore’s Holly Phillips could hardly believe her eyes when she clicked and opened an email informing her she had been chosen to the Rugby Canada U18 Women’s tour invite roster.

Canmore ski cross racer Tristan Tafel rode an unprecedented hot streak in winning four races in a row to catapult himself back onto the world cup circuit. Tafel began the streak at Nakiska with an FIS race win on the final day of competition.

The idea to have a Stoney soccer program was once just kicked around, but with a provincial soccer body on board, a non-profit group is aiming at a bigger goal.

Idre Fjall, Sweden proved kind to Canadian ski cross athletes, as Banff’s Louis-Pierre Helie and Canmore’s Kris Mahler both achieved world cup best results, Sunday (Feb. 14).

Less than a month before Ski Tour Canada storms Canmore, Alex Harvey is drawing closer to the form he needs to reach the top of the podium on home soil. Harvey finished seventh in the classic city sprint in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday (Feb. 13).

Three Bow Valley skiers are tearing up the hills as members of the Alberta Alpine ski team, bent on continuing the Rocky Mountain’s tradition of producing Canada’s top ski racers.

Canmore alpine phenom Ryan Gooch brought home three gold and two silver medals to lead the hometown contingent at the 2016 Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat, March 13-16.

The race for fourth place in the AJHL’s southern division has been, in a word, abysmal.

International sharpshooters shot up Canmore last week with primacy not seen on the snowy Nordic ski trails in nearly three decades. And as the international field lined up the targets, Canada shot back.

Amidst the glut of winter activities in the Canadian Rockies, a brave cadre of wild-eyed snowsport enthusiasts choose to spend their spare time scaling towers of ice and rock across the frozen landscape.