Local Sports

Canmore’s Luke Philp has received an invitation to attend the Toronto Maple Leafs rookie camp.

For a prairie boy, San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau loves the mountains. Marleau headlined the first week of the Canmore Eagles Summer Hockey Camp, which kicked off on Aug. 15 at the Canmore Rec Centre.

If there was ever a race tailor-made for the elevation junkies of the Bow Valley, it would be Unbreakable, the steepest race in Canada.

Imagine swimming 3.86 kilometres through chilly mountainous waters, cycling 180 km over coastal mountains and running 42 km in 30 C weather only to finish your 10-hour day with a sprint to the finish for a place on the podium.

Faced with the prospect of racing the best single track in Western Canada back to back for six days, there was nothing stopping the Bow Valley’s Jon Firth, Matt Hadley and Leighton Poidevin from reaching the start line.

Emiko Osborne and Neo Gleason won three gold medals apiece at the Alberta Summer Games, Ty Godfrey brought home a pair of gold medals and Reed Godfrey, Kelsey Slemko and Isobel Hendry each earned their own gold medals in Airdrie.

Despite running into a bear 10 kilometres into his race, Patrick Nesbitt won the 25 km Grizzly Half Ultra run on Sunday (Aug. 3) at the Canmore Nordic Centre. “I saw it five feet from the trail. He was as startled as I was,” Nesbitt said.

The last time former world cup mountain bike rider Matt Hadley raced a handicapped eliminator race, he ended up in a sprint to the finish against a 13-year-old girl. He lost by a bike length. He’ll get a chance to redeem himself on Friday (Aug.

Local skateboard wizards ruled the ramps and rails at a competition that doubled as a rallying effort for a stouter influence at Banff’s skatepark. About 20 skaters battled boards at the Banff Recreation Grounds’ skatepark on Aug.

Team building and having fun are two of the core categories for Banff’s women’s rugby club, and even though they lost 45-10 to the Calgary Saints during Friday’s (Aug. 1) match at the Banff Rec Grounds, they met their core values in spades.