Telus pulls out of World Ski, Snowboard Festival
Last week, promoters of the TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF) announced that the Canadian telecommunications company is ending its 13-year title sponsorship of the event, which has a 17-year history in Whistler, BC. The massive end-of-season bash features both the Association of Freeskiing Professionals' World Skiing Invitational and the Monster Energy Shred Show, a 5Star TTR World ...
Whistler resort eagerly awaits word on 2013 X Games
WHISTLER — The question hanging over the Telus Whistler Ski and Snowboard Festival this year is simple: What happens to the party to end all end-of-season parties when ESPN comes in next year with its hugely successful X Games brand?
Photos: Whistler parties through the weekend
Check out scenes from the second weekend of the 2012 Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival.
X Games not coming to Whistler after resort shut out of ESPN's expansion plans
WHISTLER, B.C. - Despite putting forth a "strong bid," Whistler will not be playing host to the winter X Games anytime soon.
Whistler ‘very, very disappointed’ over X Games’ rejection
Call it a something of a radical X Games invert. Cable sports giant ESPN has surprisingly passed on Whistler, co-host of the 2010 Olympics and a freeskiing mecca, essentially in favour of some place called Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.
ESPN says no to a Winter X Games Whistler
Whistler's bid to become part of the global expansion of ESPN's hugely popular X Games has failed.
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X Games not coming to Whistler
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Kenworthy wins AFP Champs big air and slope
Preview Slopestyle Big Air Superpipe A day after winning slopestyle at the AFP World Championships in Whistler, British Columbia, American Gus Kenworthy doubled down with a win in the big air on Saturday night. Kenworthy crashed on his first run of the two-run finals, and with the pressure on in his second run, he stuck a switch double cork 1620 -- four and a half rotations -- for a score of 95 ...
