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Geerthana Somas skated her first flawless program at the novice ladies level to win gold while sister Savina Somas and Lisa Duplessis took silver on Saturday (Sept.

As idyllic as three weeks cycling through Belgium and Holland sounds, there were no languid days through fields of tulips for Sarah Poidevin during her most recent trip over the pond.

Every athlete has a race where nothing works. Unfortunately for Liah Harvie, that race was the biggest of the season – at the junior road world championships.

When Dr. Andy Reed isn’t dancing down scree slopes in Kananaskis or winning races in far flung mountain ranges, he’s usually putting athletes back together again in his Canmore sports medicine clinic.

Perhaps it was jitters playing in front of friends and family, perhaps it was the much larger opposition, but the upstart Bow Valley Wolverines fell short in their first Bow Valley game of the Big Sky Football Conference season this week.

Over the past 20 years, Paul Carrick’s feet have carried him all over the globe. The co-founder of CAUSE Canada has trekked into Honduras to help reforest coconut palms, and biked through dusty roads in Sierra Leone for ebola education and control.

When Beckie Scott was a child growing up in Vermilion, Alta, she professes there were no flashes of athletic brilliance. She tried ballet, swimming, triathlon and track. Her parents took her on backcountry ski and canoe trips on weekends.

Banff’s biggest cycling star proved Monday (Sept. 21) she belongs on the world stage.

The Banff Bears men’s rugby club’s promising season came to a gut wrenching end on Saturday (Sept. 19) when the Calgary Saracens pulled off a stunning upset, edging the Bears 27-22 in Calgary Rugby Union Tier III semi-finals.

It had all the makings of a miracle finish in Big Sky Conference football. The Bow Valley Wolverines were down by a touchdown with 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter against rival Springbank Phoenix.