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Mark Arendz’s summer weight loss program had one step: get a new arm.

The Drumheller Dragons snapped the Canmore Eagles’ three-game win streak Tuesday night, pushing the Canmore club to two games below .500 before the holiday break. Joe Serpico had the lone goal for the Eagles in a 3-1 loss.

When Canmore’s Rosanna Crawford said she’d contend for medals on the biathlon world cup circuit this season, she wasn’t simply voicing idle reveries.

The big man is back.

In the world of wall-crawling, the Canmore Youth Climbing Team is Rocky Balboa. Continuously punching above their weight, a community of Canmore’s size has no business putting six climbers on the podium against the likes of Calgary and Edmonton.

Just when it appeared as if Lillehammer’s famed trails had thoroughly conquered Canada’s skiers over a three-day mini-tour in Norway, the Canucks exacted revenge in a 15-kilometre world cup classic race on Sunday, (Dec. 7).

Top Canadian biathlon prospects Julia Ransom and Macx Davies scored gold medals in their last NorAm race on home soil in 2014, providing a great confidence boost before heading overseas to represent their country.

Canmore skiers Peter Hicks and Maya MacIsaac-Jones will lead Alberta’s Canada Winter Games cross-country ski team following an extremely competitive trials weekend at the Canmore Nordic Centre, Dec. 6-8.

Canadian ski-cross queen Marielle Thompson’s reign of terror over Nakiska lives on, as the 22-year-old Olympic medallist won her second straight world cup gold on home soil on Saturday (Dec. 6).

Patrick Stewart-Jones took gold in the U.S. SuperTour classic sprints while Alysson Marshall was fifth, as Canada’s development skiers challenged skiers south of the border in Bozeman, Mont. on Saturday (Dec. 6).