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PHOTOS: Canmore club championships held

“The skateboarding community and the people I’ve met at the skate parks have offered to help. The board shops fully sponsored us for everything we could’ve asked for. The whole skateboard community just wants to get people into skateboarding.

“There is a lot to do. We are looking for volunteers. One of the main areas is setup and take down. We would really appreciate people signing up.”

“Every hockey club talks about it, you want to win a championship. You want to be in the running when it comes to the playoffs.”

“The point of it is to be able to make different types of waves for kayakers and surfers and do it very precisely. We can make waves that have only existed in nature before and have never been shaped by people.”

PHOTOS: Banff Bears competing for first place

“We were defending champions, so we had high expectations. We want to keep it up. It is not going to be easy because everyone wants to beat us. We always bring our A-game to every single weekend.”

“I never had a hole-in-one, or experienced or seen one. I was mostly in shock.”

“After our wins, standing on the blue line and hearing the national anthem, it was a great moment for that. After you go through a good game, and you play with a lot of great teammates and looking up at the flag is a surreal moment.”

“There are several resorts in Canada, including Lake Louise, that are keen to host [World Cup] events and we are working with them to develop the right long-term strategy in partnership with FIS for next season and beyond.”