The smile smeared across Dione Wearmouth’s face gave it all away.
With two podium finishes at Skate Canada’s Alberta-NWT/Nunavut STARSkate Championships — Wearmouth’s biggest competition of the year — the 10-year-old Cochranite could barely contain her excitement.

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Local hard courts will be busy in the weeks ahead as high school basketball teams battle it out for a coveted spot in the provincial finals.
And for the Cochrane High Cobras senior boys team to be successful they will need serious input from two team members living under the same roof.
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For doubles luge competitors Tristan Walker and Justin Snith it was all about laying down two good runs at the Olympic Games.
It started as a dream, became a goal, and ultimately turned into reality as they placed 15th Feb. 17 at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
“Our two starts definitely weren’t what we were hoping for,” Snith [...]

Of the roughly 200 Canadian athletes competing in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics perhaps none were under more pressure than Jennifer Heil.
The defending Olympic champion in women’s moguls, Heil was widely pegged by the media as most likely to win Canada’s first-ever gold medal on home soil.

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Local lugers Tristan Walker and Justin Snith serve as perfect examples of how age is just a number. At 18 years old, the two will compete together in the Vancouver Olympics before thousands of Canadian fans. Regardless of what happens on the world’s biggest athletic stage, Feb. 17 will be a day [...]