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Coach Bernard Briggs throws Terry Dick to the mat during the team trials for the Arctic Winter Games. Dick is one of six Yukoners competing in wrestling at the Games. When the Wrestling Association of the Yukon was formed last spring, its top priority was to put some participants in the upcoming Arctic Winter Games after a 10-year hiatus.

When Thomas Scoffin took the podium last week in Innsbruck, Austria, it was a first.

The Artic Winter Games Host Society is bridging the gap between athletics and art

CANMORE, Alta.—The next generation of Olympian cross-country ski athletes will look to gain valuable international experience while representing Canada at the 2012 Junior and Under-23 World Championships in Erzurum, Turkey, February 19-26.

Actually, one of the best day in the last five years for Yukon skiers.

Sport Yukon will be closed from noon on December 23rd and will reopen with regular hours on January 3rd.

Suzanne Bertrand’s impact on curling continues to echo nearly a year after she passed away. “She did what she loved,” said her son Chad Cowan, who made multiple appearances at the Tim Horton’s Brier, Canada’s national men’s championship.

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Whitehorse’s Jeane Lassen competes at the 2011 IWF World Championships at Paris Disneyland, France, on Thursday. She finished 15th in the women’s 75-kilogram division.

WINNING RECORD – Whitehorse’s Thomas Scoffin skipped for the junior national curling team at a superspiel in Ottawa last weekend in preparation for the Youth Olympics in Austria. Photo courtesy of HELEN RADFORD/CCA