2013 Good Times Bonspiel 2013 Good Times Bonspiel The 2013 Good Times Bonspiel was held from September 6 to 8 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. It was the first ever edition of the event. Both the men's and women's events were held in a double knockout format. The purse for both the men's and the women's events was CAD$8,000 each. The Terry Meek rink from Calgary won the men's event, defeating Bert Martin's rink from Airdrie. Lloyd Hill, also from Calgary, won the consolation event. On the women's side, 2010 Olympic silver medalist
Winter sport in Australia The Alpine regions are subject to environmental protection, which has limited the scope of commercial development of skiiable terrain, however Australia has extensive cross country skiing terrain. The sport of snowboarding is also popular in the Australian skifields and Australia has been represented at the Olympics in this sport ever since it debuted at Nagano in 1998. Torah Bright, of the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma, New South Wales, won gold for Australia at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 in the women's snowboard halfpipe event. Australia finished on top of the medal tally at the snowboarding world championships in 2012.