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If Chandra Crawford needs Christmas tree colour scheme ideas this year, silver might be a good place to start. Crawford won the first silver medal of her cross-country World Cup career, Sunday (Dec.

Mark Scheifele, Nathan Beaulieu and the rest of Canada’s best junior hockey players will be in Banff between Dec. 15 and 22 as part of a pre-tournament training camp.

Canada’s ‘just happy to be here’ days on the cross-country skiing World Cup circuit are gone. Now, top 10 finishes are the new perquisite for serotonin release.

Kevin Sandau and Brent McMurtry will battle for another chance to race World Cup in Europe and Alysson Marshall plans to contend for top spot in Rossland B.C. following the first crucial NorAm race of the 2011/2012 season at Sovereign Lake, B.C.

The Canmore Eagles blew a pair of two-goal leads on the way to an 8-7 loss to the last-place Drumheller Dragons in AJHL action at Alex Kaleta Arena on Tuesday (Dec. 13).

Tess Davies has a flair for the dramatic. Tearing into the Fall Away turn during her second World Cup run at Lake Louise, Davies went for an aggressive move on the crucial part of the course.

In 2009 at Lake Louise, American Lindsey Vonn’s downhill run was nearly ruined when she struck a large bump that forced her knee into her chin, leaving her bloodied at the bottom of the run. She still won the race.

There are few examples of purely dominant sport performances: NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point performance, Wayne Gretzky circa 1985, pre-sex scandal Tiger Woods.

The challenge – drop 22 pounds of body weight in 10 hours. To become the Alberta provincial heavyweight champion 30-year-old boxer Nick Martin had to do just that. And it nearly killed him. “It was one of the worst days of my life,” Martin said.

Jan Hudec had every reason to fail. Stuck with a $15,000 Alpine Canada team fee levied because his ranking was outside the top 30 in the world, Hudec was still looking for sponsors three days before last weekend’s Lake Louise World Cup.