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Nineteen years ago, Patch Bennet was one of 100 Canadian whitewater paddlers camping beside the wild Kananakis River, bent on taming its features in a long fiberglass boat.

Draped in provincial colours, grittily facing near impossible odds, the Bow Valley’s Canada Summer Games participants returned home Sunday (Aug. 18) vowing to train harder than ever to reach their goals.

The Banff Springs soccer club is in grasping distance of their first Bow Valley Soccer League title ever after a 2-1 win over Canmore United on Sunday (Aug. 18) at the Banff Rec Grounds.

One of North America’s top cycling teams will suit up for the 2013 Banff GranFondo as part of a week-long training camp in preparation for the Tour of Alberta.

The Canmore Cohos swim club will send 23 swimmers to the provincial championships this weekend, thanks to a string of top results at a Region E swim meet at the University of Calgary on Saturday (Aug. 10).

Going into the final race weekend of the season, the Rundle Mountain Cycling Club is poised to take its second overall Alberta Bicycle Association title. The club’s performance at the Jason Lapierre Memorial race Saturday (Aug.

Putting their fat tires aside, Liah Harvie and Sara Poidevin finished 17th and 21st respectively in the Canada Games road cycling time trial on Monday (Aug. 12), setting them up for a challenging road race Wednesday in Sherbrooke, Que.

Old school cross-country and Super-D mountain bike racing made its return to the Canmore Nordic Centre on Sunday (Aug. 11) when Matt Hadley defeated former world cup racer Jamie Lamb to win the third annual Kananaskiker.

Anti-gay rights laws have several Bow Valley Olympians seeing red after the Russian government re-affirmed last week it would enforce legislation that could see individuals fined, jailed and expelled from the country for “propoganda of non-traditiona

Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, Andrew Milne, Jeremy Reich and Patrick Marleau would marvel at the high-flying Swift Current Broncos, led by Joe Sakic and Sheldon Kennedy.