Downhill ski racer Larisa Yurkiw says she is no longer a member of the national ski team, although she still hopes to represent Canada at the Sochi Olympics next year.

Alpine Canada unveiled plans for its new-look coaching staff Friday as it prepares for next season and the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, with latest addition Massimo Carca.

Montreal's Maxime Dufour-Lapointe won the women's dual mogul event at the season-ending national mogul championships Sunday in Val St. Come, Que.

Marie-Michèle Gagnon didn't have much trouble in claiming her fourth straight national slalom title on Tuesday at the Alpine Canadian Championships in Whistler, B.C., winning the race in a time of one minute, 40.44 seconds for her ninth Canadian title in four different disciplines.

Excitement is building less than a year out from the alpine skiing competition at the Sochi Olympics, and we look at the top performers from the 2012-13 FIS World Cup season in our photo gallery.

Marie-Michèle Gagnon and Jeffrey Frisch won their respective super-G titles at the Canadian championships in Whistler, B.C., on Monday. The biggest cheers, however, were saved for CBCSports.ca blogger Kelly VanderBeek, who was given a heartfelt sendoff by her teammates after retiring earlier this season.

Two-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion Andrus Veerpalu won his appeal Tuesday against a three-year doping ban, even though sport's highest court suspects he did cheat with human growth hormone.

Canada's Mike Riddle claimed the crystal globe as the world's top male halfpipe skier on the FIS circuit after winning the final World Cup event of the season Monday in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

Every Monday, the CBCSports.ca team picks a Canadian athlete who excelled on the international stage over the weekend. This week's award, his second win, goes to Quebec freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury.

Larisa Yurkiw edged rival Marie-Michele Gagnon to take the women's national downhill title Sunday at the Canadian alpine skiing championships in Whistler, B.C.

Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season. While in women's Marit Bjoergen took the final 10k freestyle win, placing her 4th overall.

Manuel Osborne-Paradis won the national downhill title Saturday at the Sport Chek Alpine Canadian Championships in Whistler, B.C.

Mikael Kingsbury's fourth place finish Friday in the World Cup moguls freestyle final was good enough to earn the Quebec native the Crystal Globe as season points champion.

Canada's Dominique Maltais captured the women's World Cup snowboard cross crown by winning the last final event of the season in Sierra Nevada, Spain, on Thursday.