Local Sports

Ski Tour Canada is just a month away and the battle for spots on the Canadian team reached a fever pitch this weekend at the Eastern Canadian Championships, Feb. 5-7 in Gatineau, Que.

Canada’ s mixed four-person relay had one of their best results in years on the final day (Feb. 7) of the BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon.

Canadian biathlete Nathan Smith secured a 16 th place finish in Saturday’ s (Feb. 6) mass start and is set to anchor the single mixed relay with fellow Canuck Julia Ransom.

Canadian “ski-shooter” Julia Ransom had the race of her career with a 19 th -place finish at the world cup at the Canmore Nordic Centre. It was a ”luck of the draw” kind of day on course as wind gusts tormented biathletes, Friday (Feb.

Four Canadian biathletes finished in the top 40 of the men’ s 10 kilometre sprint on the opening day of the BMW IBU world cup biathlon, Thursday (Feb. 4) in Canmore.

The next generation of Biathlon Canada athletes doesn’t have anything to prove – they just want to compete. The 2016 BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon races get underway, Thursday (Feb.

This is it for Canadian biathletes. This high-level competition, in Canmore’s playground, is where “dreams are made.

The Bears have the duty to strike down the Kings in the first round of the playoffs. In an early playoff preview, the Banff Hockey Academy Bears staged a 4-2 victory over the Strathmore Wheatland Kings Tuesday (Feb.

On top of producing many of the top ski cross racers in the world (including X Games winners Brady Leman and Kelsey Serwa), Canada has one of the deepest prospect pools in the sport. Luckily for local ski fans, most are from the Bow Valley.

Alberta Winter Games are a mere two weeks away, and the Banff/Canmore Speed Skating club is looking fast and ready to challenge the best in the west. Competing on home ice, the club hosted its annual meet at the Canmore Rec Centre, Saturday (Jan.