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Sport, says Chris Neve, has a lot to teach youth. And as the newly named head coach of Canada’s junior climbing team, Neve hopes to help athletes learn as much as they can – while he, too, learns plenty in the process.

While it’s the end of the ski season for many in the Bow Valley, it wasn’t for 206 young ski racers that gathered in Lake Louise for the 10th annual Doug Meyers Invitational last weekend, April 13-14.

One of Biathlon Canada’s most respected athletes, Melanie Schultz, has chosen to retire from the sport in order to pursue a career.

Summer hockey schools, women’s hockey and booze in the stands. Those are the lynchpins of the Canmore Eagles’ new strategy to pay down its $60,000 debt to the Town of Canmore.

Canada’s most promising biathlon prospect, 2012 junior world championship gold medalist Kurtis Wenzel, has decided to call it quits.

When Trevor Philp began his second run on Tuesday (March 26), he had one national title to his name and two poles. By the time he reached the finish, those totals had been reversed.

No sleep? No problem. That was cross-country skier Dasha Gaiazova’s mantra heading into her second race of the week at the Haywood Ski Nationals.

In Whistler, cross-country skiing is a summer sport. Temperatures soar to 18 degrees, tank tops and shorts are the norm, trail crews salt the snow while biathletes and retiring skiers win the Haywood Ski National crowns.

Speed merchants Jesse Cockney and Brent McMurtry conquered big climbs and dodged spectacular crashes to kick off the 2013 cross-country Haywood Ski Nationals at Whistler Olympic Park in controversial fashion, Saturday (March 23).

Heidi Widmer continued her dominance of the domestic racing scene, partnering up with Marlis Kromm to win the women’s team sprint in convincing fashion on Saturday (March 23) at Whistler Olympic Park to open the cross-country Haywood Ski Nationals.