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Swimmer in Sunday’s 24th annual race a former world-record freestyler

With the Canadian vision-impaired curling national championship on the line, a B.C. team built exclusively with Prince George curlers led the six-time defending champions by a point with just three ends left.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- The Prince George Cougars pounced on an unprepared Lethbridge Hurricanes team in a 7-2 victory Friday at the Enmax Centre.

Based in the northernmost outpost of the Western Hockey League, the Prince George Cougars are unavoidably road warriors, logging more highway kilometres than most of their opponents.

They were facing the business end of a double-barreled threat. They had to win both games. But rather than see their trip to the Canadian visually impaired curling championship come to a premature end, the Prince George rink that makes up Team B.C.

For 23 years, the Prince George Iceman has been gathering steam as the city's largest annual sporting event. If the influx of young competitors signed up for the 24th annual Iceman on Sunday is any indication, the future of the race is in good hands.

A group of local hockey players and coaches is going to leave winter behind -- at least for a short time. The Prince George Custom Edge Sports Canucks will be in Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 18-21 for the President's Day Invitational tournament.

The WIC Cougars were a little short-staffed. As it turned out, they needed a full lineup to beat the Abbotsford Ice for gold.

In the school of gymnastics, boys are usually outnumbered by the girls by a wide margin. But you don't have to tell Ben Garcia there's a place for males in the world of pommel horses, parallel bars, rings, vaults and gym floor mats.

After they choked in Edmonton, the Prince George Cougars were hoping a trip to Medicine Hat would leave a better taste in their mouths. It didn't.