Loaded with many of Canada’s top ski prospects, there have been many days in the Alberta World Cup Academy history where the team has utterly dominated the field, filling the team van with medals and flowers. Then, there are the tough days. The character...
For someone who spent most of their summer on crutches, Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt still has speed to burn. The 24-year-old smoked the field by two seconds in Saturday’s open women’s sprint qualifier, and ended the day as the top Canadian and fourth overall...
Norway’s Olympic medallist Heidi Weng couldn’t beat her. Nor could American ski icon Kikkan Randall. On Sunday, in Davos, Switzerland, Dahria Beatty was just that fast. Skiing at the speed of northern light, the Yukon product had the best race of her young...
As far back as he can remember, Jack Carlyle always wanted to be a hockey player. Growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, while the rest of his friends were off to the rink, Carlyle wound get dragged onto the Hiawatha Nordic Ski Trails, where he would shuffle around...
World Cup Update Dahria Beatty and Knute Johnsgaard are barely old enough to remember the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, but they got to experience the Norwegian city’s lung-busting ski trails Dec. 2-4 during a World Cup mini-tour of the historic small city. The...
Hometown hero Thomas Manktelow has spent a dizzying amount of time skiing on Canmore’s Frozen Thunder loop over his young career, and that local knowledge paid off with a silver and bronze medal performance in the Junior Men’s division in the first Alberta...
