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Canadian biathlete Zina Kocher knows T-bar love stories do come true. Her parents told her all about them. Thirty-two years ago, on a T-bar in St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria, a young Canadian vacationer sidled up next to an Austrian ski instructor.

There was little rest over the holidays for many of the nation’s top skiers, as most used the first Bow Corridor race at the Canmore Nordic Centre, on Dec 29 as extra training going into 2011.

Canmore’s Devon Kershaw became the third Canadian male to win a world cup cross-country ski race after he won a skate-ski sprint race at the prestigious Tour de Ski in Toblach, Italy on Wednesday (Jan. 5).