Canadian bobsleigh legend Pierre Lueders announced Wednesday that he is resigning as coach with Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton. Lueders, a familiar face around WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park in Calgary for more than 20 years, won more than 100 international medals during his career, including Olympic gold in 1998 (in Nagano, Japan) and silver in 2006 (Turin, Italy). [...]

WinSport Canada is proud once again to be a facility partner with Sport Calgary for the 2012 All Sport One Day event. The free day of sport discovery for kids aged 6-12 in Calgary will take place on June 16 at eight facilities throughout the city. More than 2,000 kids are expected to take part [...]

The spring and summer season at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park is officially underway, with the opening of its zipline, summer bobsleigh and mini-golf attractions this past weekend. Public tours of the ski jump tower are also returning.  The following hours are for May and June: Summer bobsleigh: Open noon to 4 p.m. (weekends) and 4-7 [...]

The thoughts of the staff at WinSport Canada are with the Read family following the passing on Sunday of Andrew Read. The 29-year-old chemical engineer from Calgary was diagnosed as an infant with Cystic Fibrosis and was diagnosed in 2010 with bladder cancer, which spread to his spine and lungs. The Read family is synonymous [...]

Alpine Canada announced Monday that Paralympic and World Cup skier Karolina Wisniewska is retiring. The 35-year-old Calgary native, who has won eight Paralympic medals during her career, sat out last season after suffering an injury in February 2011 during a downhill race. She first started with the Canadian Disabled Alpine Ski Team in 1995. She [...]

Canadian skier Louis-Pierre Hélie is changing disciplines.The 26-year-old native of Berthierville, Que., is switching to the Canadian ski cross team, after spending the past seven years with the national alpine team, specializing in super-G, downhill and super combined.“It’s a big change, but everyone is supporting me,” said Hélie, who competed at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. [...]

Now that the skis can be put away until next winter, there’s still plenty of time to get the garage cleaned out and the mountain bike tuned up. The 2012 mountain bike season at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park opens up on June 22, but if you purchase your 2012 Summer Super Pass or Heat Wave [...]

Congratulations to WinSport Canada staffer Benard Onsare, who finished second on Sunday at the Vancouver Marathon. Onsare, who is a two-time winner of the Vancouver race, is a member of WinSport’s custodial team. The native of Kenya has lived in Calgary for the past five years and will bring his wife and daughter to the [...]

There were a couple of coaching additions in Canadian winter sports on Friday, with Chris Witwicki named the national slopestyle team coach by Canada Snowboard, while Sebastien Labrie was named head coach of the Canadian Para-Alpine team. Witwicki, who has 17 years of high level competitive snowboarding and coaching experience, will coach the national A [...]

The International Paralympic Committee announced Thursday that two medal events in snowboarding will be added to the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Both men and women will compete in the snowboarding event. “We are thrilled by this latest development for Para~Snowboard,” said Canada~Snowboard, executive director Steven Hills. “Canada~Snowboard has worked extremely hard at [...]