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When Ivan Babikov first moved to Canmore, he couldn’t even afford a pair of running shoes. He had to save up every penny from his race winnings (usually no more than a $100 to start) to fly to see his young family in Russia.

This wasn’t Nick Martin’s first taste of death, but when you’re told to pack a haz-mat suit, three yards of buckskin and an adult diaper – you’re going to ponder what you’re about to face.

Sara Poidevin and Liah Harvie proved the most promising teenage road cyclists in Canada hail from the Bow Valley after both earned national medals in the junior women’s crit race at the Canadian Road Championships on Sunday (July 6) in Beauceville, Q

The path to the world youth climbing championships leads through Canmore and judging by the make-up of Canada’s national team, that path is well-worn.

The Calgary Rugby Union’s third division is populated with such a raucous crew of wily greenhorns, wild-eyed globetrotters and grizzled grey warriors, the Banff Bears know on any given week they must be prepared to take on anyone.

When she tried to climb Alaska's Denali a year ago, Wasfia Nazreen spent a week and a half enduring a storm in a tiny tent, frostbit her finger, which required three surgeries to save, and ended up having her stomach pumped after she drank water cont

The Banff women’s rugby team is back from the dead, and this time, they’re younger and hungrier.

Denied sweet victory under the Olympic rings in Sochi by slim margins and broken skis, the 2014 Canadian national biathlon team is younger, bigger and ready to attack world cup competition like young wolves on the fold. Gone are fan favourites J.P.

The dream year just keeps getting better for Canmore’s Amanda Ammar. In 2014, the small but mighty ski ninja earned a trip to her second Olympic Games, got engaged and enrolled in school to study Chinese medicine.

The Tampa Bay Lightning drafted former Canmore Eagles forward Brayden Point 79th overall in the NHL draft on Saturday (June 28) in Philadelphia.