Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans.
Below the air traffic, fellow flyers unpack hand-painted model airplanes of various sizes from the backseat [...]
One of the new 2010 Winter Olympic venues, the Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre, hosted its first competition in February 2009.
The World Wheelchair Curling Championships were held there to determine who goes to the 2010 Paralympic Games.
Produced by Heather Amos, Ameila Bellamy-Royds, Miné Salkin and Alexis Stoymenoff.
Vancouver’s gay community is disappointed that it may not get city funds for its international sporting event at a time when the city is spending millions on the Olympic games. At a debate held on November 5, neither mayoral candidate would commit funding to the North America Outgames which that will bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]
By Krysia Collyer.
A new judging system to be introduced at the World Cup season opener on December 13 in Tignes, France, could cost crucial points for Canada’s top male mogul skier.
Alexandre Bilodeau is worried that the new categories added to off-axis judging will lead to him losing marks because the judges may not be [...]
By Krysia Collyer
Moguls skiing is an exciting spectator sport. There are many different elements to the competition, and having the fastest time does not ensure that an athlete will win. The competition consists of skiers racing down a 29-degree incline and launching themselves off two jumps on the way down the hill.
FIS World [...]
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Vancouver’s Olympic Committee (VANOC) is upping its anti-doping measures by increasing the number of pre-competition drug tests for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to catch cheaters before they reach the podium.
“We know that the cheaters are using more and more substances before the competition than during and after the competition,” said [...]
Within weeks of Marion Jones being stripped of her 2000 Olympic gold medals, questions arose about the ‘purity of sport’ and whether the authentic of competition can truly exist in an era of performance-enhancing drugs.
The following is a summary of some of the most commonly used prohibited drugs and doping methods. It is important to [...]
Despite the growing legitimacy of the mountain bike community, problems remain.
Parking
The 2003 bylaw banning non-resident parking in certain areas of North Vancouver went a long way in alleviating the parking issue. But residents continue to complain about people parking on the streets, especially around the area where the parking ban ends. The Fromme plan [...]
By Ian Bickis
North Shore Mountain bikers have made their voice heard with local government, despite not saving all the trails they wanted on Fromme Mountain.
Advocates for the sport have been trying to save their beloved trails, while conservationists have been trying to close them to prevent environmental degradation. The Fromme Mountain Trail Classification Plan, which [...]
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