Local Sports

For a guy who’s usually found throwing himself off the end of ski jumps, Wesley Savill looked pretty comfortable powering through the historic ski trails between Lake Louise and Banff.

Notes The last time Andrea Dupont and Heidi Widmer battled head to head in a skate sprint at the Canmore Nordic Centre, it was for a trip to Sochi.

As many people strapped on skis and whooshed down powdered slopes last weekend, inside the Banff Community High School gymnasium a crowd cheered on back and forth karate action. On Saturday (Jan.

Brendan Green shot clean, Megan Heinicke cracked the top 12 for the first time in her career and Scott Gow posted a personal best result in what was an excellent weekend for Canada on the world cup in Ruhpolding, Germany.

While Sault Ste. Marie is home for the Brad Jacobs rink, the Olympic gold medal winning foursome may start thinking of Banff as a home away from home. Banff, you see, has been very good to Jacobs and his crew – third Ryan Fry, second E.J.

Notes Villages north of the Arctic Circle aren’t traditional stomping grounds for cross-country skiers, but Annah Hanthorn is about to change that. The 19-year-old from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories (pop.

Good news, and possibly bad news, on the local curling front arose during the Pinty’s All-Star Curling Skins Game at Fenlands Recreation Centre last weekend (Jan. 16-18).

Notes In 1952, country legend Gene Autry sang of the Blue Canadian Rockies and how the shores of Lake Louise called to him across the ocean.

Bow Valley residents aren’t ones to hole up for winter, however, when it comes to recreational racing weekends, summer is still king.

Pinty's All-Star Curling Skins Game ended with a bang and big bucks in Banff's Fenlands Recreation Centre, Sunday (Jan. 18).