Chester freshman Kenny Wilson has won all five of his high school races this season. Wilson has been racing since a child and now trains several times a week.
Forget about downhill skiers, hockey players and figure skaters. The most famous — and marketable — athlete expected to go for gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler is a snowboarder.
It’s much more likely you know him, and his mop of long, curly red hair, from magazine covers or Hewlett-Packard Co. commercials than for his seemingly impossible 1260s — 31/2 full rotations, picture a spinning top — as he explodes from the steep walls of a snowboard halfpipe at the X Games.
Shaun White, already a star before gold at the Turin Games in 2006 launched him to …Â More info
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In 13 years of alpine ski racing, Daron Rahlves found himself foiled by fog, bad snow, equipment failure, ice, sickness, lack of sleep, and any number of other obstacles.
Ski freaks and mountain bikers, Whistler calling. Spring’s coming right around the corner, and if you’re already dreading the depressing approach of wildflowers in bloom and the impending snow melt that mark the end of ski season, do not despair. That behemoth of a mountain, British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb Resort, is also a lesser known summer paradise.