Local Sports

It started with emotion, as the wife and son of Bob McIntosh returned to Squamish to witness their first Squamish Triathlon - a Memorial to Bob McIntosh Sunday (July 11) at Alice Lake.

The Squamish Windsports Society (SWS) received a much-needed gift last week when No Limits Motorsports of Squamish donated a brand new 2004 Bombardier Sea Doo for use as a retrieval vessel.

Another wave of athletes will converge in Squamish on Sunday (July 11) to take part in the second huge event of the summer of 2004.

There's modest and then there's Jungsuv Song. The 19-year-old participant in Howe Sound Secondary School's international student program participated in the West Coast Can-Am Championship martial arts event at the B.C.

Some of the province's best athletes have gone on to great success as a result of competing in the B.C. Summer Games, and several Squamish athletes are hoping to do the same this summer.

Aleisha Cline wants your vote. Don't worry, the federal election really is over. The Squamish skier needs the votes of Squamish and Whistler residents to help her win one of the most prestigious awards in the action sports world - the ESPYs.

Local soccer ace Martina Franko will be bringing an all-star cast of Whitecaps players to Squamish this summer, but they won't be playing in a game.

They're the Montreal Canadiens of golf in the Sea to Sky corridor. For the fifth consecutive year, the ladies of the Squamish Valley Golf and Country Club (SVGCC) have won the annual Solheim Cup matches.

Although he crashed three times, Hercules, a.k.a. Kyle Ritchie, still threw down some lightning bolts along the way to successfully defend his title as the fastest freerider in Squamish at the Rockstar Invitational Freeride Sunday (June 20).

For most of the riders who compete in the Test of Metal, finishing the race will do just fine, thank you. But for a select few, that just doesn't cut the mustard.