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Several Whistler Secondary School track and field athletes earned berths in the Lower Mainland zone championships on the strength of great results at last Thursday's qualifying meet.

Mike Riddle shows off the new pair of skis that he said were a 'huge factor' in helping him to the top of the podium in Sunday's WSI Superpipe contest in the Blackcomb pipe.

Gus Kenworthy takes a trip over the big air jump at the base of Whistler on Saturday night .

The seemingly indestructible phenomenon of the Victorian-era Gilbert and Sullivan operettas will have two significant Vancouver manifestations in 2012, writes classical music reporter David Gordon Duke.

The death of Nik Zoricic was entirely avoidable and should not be considered a "freak accident," emotional family members of the Canadian ski-cross racer said on Wednesday.

The parents of Canadian skicross racer Nik Zoricic, who died during a World Cup race in Switzerland last month, are disputing claims that his fatal fall was a "freak accident." The lawyer for Predrag Zoricic and Silvia Brudar has scheduled a news conference in Toronto this Wednesday, saying the grieving parents want to discus "the real facts ... (more)

Nik Zoricic' funeral: Pall Bearers ,which include childhood friend NHL star Jason Spezza , at the March service for the Canadian skier.

Gus Kenworthy is handed the key to a new Chevy Sonic after winning Saturday's Moster Energy Big Air at the base of Whistler, joined by podium finishers Vincent Gagnier, left, and Russ Henshaw.

Under a milky grey sky on Friday afternoon in Whistler, British Columbia, Gus Kenworthy capped off his already successful season with a win in the men's slopestyle finals at the World Skiing Invitational, the championships and final contest for the Association of Freeskiing Professionals.

National slopestyle team member Vincent Gagnier will be looking for another podium finish in WSI contests this year after placing third in the 2011 big air event.