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In the biathlon range, Canadian national team members Sarah Beaudry and Emma Lunder are sure shot specialists. Away from the range, their specialty is the triple espresso shot.

Even at 90, Mount Norquay is still the fastest to the punch. Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Norquay will open its lifts for the first time this season on Thursday (Nov. 5), followed closely by the Lake Louise Ski Hill (Nov. 6) and Nakiska (Nov.

The Banff Hockey Academy Bears play four of the next five games on the road beginning tonight (Oct. 29) in High River following a 6-5 loss over the weekend in Heritage Junior Hockey League action. The Bears faceoff against the Flyers at 7 p.m.

Anthony Brito and Kai Namba led the Bow Valley Riptides to a second-place finish in the Canmore Penathlon swim meet, Saturday (Oct. 24) at Elevation Place.

Seventeen-year-old defenceman Adamu Tanaka takes a feed from Matt Forchuk at the red line and turns on the jets in the first period of the Eagle’s Friday night AJHL match against the Brooks Bandits.

Cross Country Canada has turned to the pool to find its new chief executive officer.

The Bow Valley Wolverines are limping into the playoffs, but are looking forward to a fresh start in their first round playoff match Friday (Oct. 30) against the High River Mustangs in Okotoks.

If Canada’s cross-country skiers drink from the golden chalice of world cup success this season, a modicum of credit must fall to a sleepy fishing hole on the Livingstone River, just beyond the Highwood in Kananaskis Country.

Striving to become the greenest marathon in the world, the Banff Marathon generated $4.2 million worth of economic activity in the community, according to numbers released by race organizers on Monday (Oct. 19).

At opposite ends of their careers, Banff’s Jan Hudec and Canmore’s Trevor Philp will once again challenge the world as members of Alpine Canada’s world cup team, with the technical season set to kick off in Solden, Austria on Oct. 24.