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2011 WU Update: CIS Announces Canadian Alpine Skiing & Snowboarding Rosters

Alpine Skiing 17 December 2010

OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Wednesday the student-athletes and coaches who will represent Canada in alpine skiing and snowboarding at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada did not participate in these two sports at the last Games in Harbin, China, in 2009. Head coach and team leader Vincent Lavoie of Laval University […]

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Maoershan Update: Biathlon & Snowboard

Winter Games 25 February 2009

    Biathlon: Russian and Ukrainian Pursuit The Biathlon Pursuit event is easy to understand: you start in the same position as the one obtained after the sprint competition. This means that the winner of the 10km sprint men, the Russian Artem Gusev was the first to take the start 2 seconds before the Ukrainian […]

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Snowboard: Anja and Viktor: Parallel Destinies

Winter Games 23 February 2009

Who would have bet one dime on Anja Puggl and Viktor Kulikov before the finals of the snowboard parallel giant slalom? Except their best friends or their family members, no one. But this (wo)man to (wo)man race is a very special event because the proximity of your opponent can be stressful. The sun was shining […]

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Snowboard and Biathlon in Maoershan

Winter Games 21 February 2009

Snowboard The first finals took place today in Maoershan. Snow showers have taken the place of the yesterday’s sunshine which illuminated this outstanding venue. The snow did not look to border at all the very promising young French snowboarder girl Claire Chapotot, 18 years old, who has beaten the Czech Klara Koukalova after an exciting […]