Canada’s ski cross racers will receive increased support from Alpine Canada starting this World Cup season as Canada Ski Cross builds upon a successful 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Two-time Olympian Shona Rubens is retiring after five seasons with Canada's Alpine Ski Team.



Patrick Riml will lead Canada's alpine ski teams in the new position of CAST athletic director, the national sport governing body announced Monday.

WHISTLER, B.C. — Some members of the men's Canadian Alpine Ski Team are bringing the 2009-10 ski racing season to an end by holding a ski camp for deserving young ski racers in B.C.

Two podium results on the final day of the 2010 Whistler Cup race for elite young ski racers boosted Canada to a Nations Cup victory, holding on to a title won by the host nation last season.

WHISTLER, B.C. — Two Italians were joined by an American and a ski racer from Iceland as winners on the second day of competition at the 2010 Whistler Cup. The ski race for the world's elite 11- to 14-year-old (K1 and K2) ski racers continued Saturday with girls’ giant slalom and boys’ slalom races.

The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association is excited to report that the FIS Congress, meeting in Turkey, voted June 4 to approve French and U.S. proposals recommending to the International Olympic Committee the inclusion of ski halfpipe to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games program.

The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association has announced the launch of CAN Freestyle, a detailed, long-term athlete development model designed to train freestyle skiers of all ages and abilities in all disciplines.

The future of freestyle skiing in Canada got a significant boost this week when the Quebec government announced a $2.5 million project to develop a winter training facility in the province at Val-Saint-Côme in the Lanaudière region, north of Montreal.

The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association has announced its Grand Prix winners from the moguls and halfpipe Canadian Series for 2009-10.

CALGARY, Alberta — Just back from the last leg of the World Cup season in Europe, the Canadian ski cross team hosted the national championships March 27-28 at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.

CALGARY, Alberta — Olympians Chloé Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal and Maxime Gingras of St-Hippolyte, Que., emerged victorious at the Canada Post Freestyle National Championships Sunday.

Leo Addington of Calgary, Alberta, has been appointed to lead the Canadian Freestyle Snowboarding program, Canada Snowboard, the governing body for competitive snowboarding, has announced.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, a reserved but shrewd dealmaker whose 21-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee was marked by both the unprecedented growth of the Games and its biggest ethics scandal, died Wednesday at a hospital. He was 89.

Christian Hrab will be stepping down as the high-performance program director at the Canadian Snowboard Federation, effective June 30.

MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. — Maelle Ricker of Squamish, B.C., added yet another title to her stellar season, winning the Canada Snowboard Nationals for the second straight season Saturday.

MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. — Jasey-Jay Anderson finished his incredible season and career by winning the parallel giant slalom in his hometown of Mont-Tremblant, Que., at the Canadian snowboard championships on Wednesday.

Brad Martin took the victory in the men’s contest to win his fourth consecutive Canadian title by scoring 44.8 points in his first run in the finals.