Local Sports

Innovators attract imitators. Just ask organizers of the TransRockies Mountain Bike Race.

The last time Banff Sushi House beat Canmore Rose and Crown in regular season Bow Valley Soccer League play, Barak Obama was making his first visit to Canada, Avatar was at the top of the box office and Michael Jackson was still alive.

Friends of Kananskis Country are helping rebuild damaged trails at the Canmore Nordic Centre after flooding in the provincial park in June.

Alpine Canada President and CEO Max Gartner announced he plans to step down once a successor can be found to lead the governing body for alpine, para-alpine and ski cross racing into a crucial season which includes the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

The banks of Cougar Creek are forever changed, yet the 24th annual Canada Day Run struck a familiar tone to kick off Canmore’s national celebration.

Putting your body through an 80-kilometre trail run with 3,000 metres of elevation is hard enough, but to end the race in a full out sprint finish is simply unthinkable.

By now, everyone knows Canmore’s Sara Poidevin and Banff’s Liah Harvie are two of the nation’s most promising mountain bike racers. But at the 2013 Canadian Road Championships in Lac Megantic, Que.

Floodwaters swept away several sporting events over the past week, however the Canmore Canada Day Run received the green light for Monday (July 1) and the Canmore Gran Fondo on July 6 will still go ahead as a fundraiser for relief efforts.

She’s posed nude, sold pine-scented soap and hosted fishing derby’s in rural Manitoba; It’s fair to say Canadian National Biathlon Team member Megan Imrie has done it all trying to fund her Olympic dream.

Cyclists Liah Harvie and Sara Poidevin will join basketball player Luke Praught to challenge the best young athletes in the nation at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Quebec from Aug. 2 to 17.