Local Sports

Several local skaters posted podium performances and personal bests at a Banff Canmore Speed Skating Club home meet on Saturday (Dec. 15) as the club continues to develop young skaters.

Sitting in the media room three days before her first race, cross-country skier Chandra Crawford struggled to speak positively.

In what may well be the last World Cup race on adopted home soil in his World Cup career, cross-country ski beast Ivan Babikov had to go for it.

The valley is filled with those humbled by harsh conditions on familiar mountains. Add ski cross racer Tristan Tafel to that list.

National team cross-country skiers lead a simple life: eat, train, sleep, repeat. Canmore’s Russell Kennedy, though, has to find time to lay down some beats.

Amidst deafening crowds in Quebec City, Canada’s national cross-country ski team fell short of World Cup glory Friday and Saturday (Dec. 7-8) in the team and individual sprints.

With the women’s speed team firmly stuck in rebuilding mode, Alpine Canada president Max Gartner says patience is needed before the nation sees a resurgence in downhill and super G competitors.

If Canmore cross-country ski fans learned anything this weekend, it was this: beware the Swiss sprinters. Top 10 World Cup cross-country ski sprinter Eligius Tambornino dominated the field on Saturday (Dec.

Graeme Killick and Brittany Webster both head into next weekend’s World Cup qualifying races with something to prove.

Sick, tired and dogged by untrue rumours ranging from the unoriginal (pregnancy) to the utterly bizarre (Tim Tebow romance), American Lindsey Vonn still beat the women’s field by half a second to complete an unprecedented second sweep of the Bombardi