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Climbing enthusiasts have flocked to the Canadian Rockies for generations, and now the Canmore Climbing Festival will launch at the Canmore Civic Centre next Friday (July 24) at 6 p.m., featuring talks from three big names in the sport.

Midway through an unrelenting 116-kilometre Rundle Mountain Bike Fest road race, Colin Croston had his dark moment of the soul.

The unstoppable Emiko Osborne led the Bow Valley Riptides with a pair of provincial silver medals from the 2015 Speedo Age Group and Senior Championships in Edmonton last weekend.

Last year, Canmore’s Adam Campbell proved impervious to Colorado’s notorious high alpine thunderstorms. This year, dangerous rock fall, crushing altitude and spooky hallucinations challenged the 36-year-old through nearly 27 hours of racing.

Rundle Mountain Cycling Club coach Kate Curtis is a coach who practices what she preaches.

Canmore’s Erin Morgan dropped her first and only judo match of the PanAm Games in Toronto on Saturday (July 11), but the 22-year-old said the result has only strengthened her resolve to improve.

Banff’s golden girl Liah Harvie once again conquered the Canadian Junior Road Cycling Championships, winning two gold medals and one silver this past weekend in Quebec.

In order to race this weekend, Adam Campbell must believe lightning can’t strike the same spot twice. That spot being his head.

The creation of grand cycling cultures rests in the strength of rivalries.

Daring downhill riders dominated a classic cross-country line from the top of the Canmore Nordic Centre trails in an all-natural, stunt-free Super-D race, last weekend.