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SNOW CONDITIONS IN WHISTLER RECIEVE FIS APPROVAL AS TELUS PRESENTS THE WHISTLER WORLD CUP

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has given approval to “TELUS presents the Whistler World Cup” race organizers to proceed with this week’s Men’s and Ladies World Cup ski races, Alpine Canada Alpin announced today.

Racing is scheduled to take place from Feb. 21st to 24th in Whistler, BC, bringing a record breaking season for ski races in Canada to a close.

“The course crew and volunteers have worked extremely hard to prepare the courses here in Whistler for the world’s best ski racers. As a result of their effort the track is very good condition and it’s ‘game on’,” said Alpine Canada Alpin Director of World Cup Events John Cassels.

The ladies get downhill training underway February 19th with the men kicking off races with the TELUS Whistler Super G on Feb. 21st. The Men’s TELUS Whistler Giant Slalom takes place on Feb. 23rd while the Ladies will be on course on Feb. 22nd for the TELUS Whistler Downhill and Feb. 24th in the TELUS Whistler Super Combined presented by UPS.

Watch for World Cup champions Britt Janyk (Whistler, BC) John Kucera (Calgary, AB), Emily Brydon (Fernie, BC) and Erik Guay (Mont-Tremblant, QC) who will lead a team of 15 Canadian alpine ski racers.

Grammy-nominated hip hop artist k-os and Juno-nominated rockers Hedley highlight a stellar weekend of entertainment capped on Feb. 22nd by the TELUS VIP World Cup Ski Party at the TELUS Whistler Conference Centre.

CANADIAN ALPINE SKIERS PARTICIPATING:

LADIES
Emily Brydon (Fernie, BC)
Emilie Desforges (Montréal, QC)
Britt Janyk (Whistler, BC)
Danielle Poleschuk (Calgary, AB)
Kelly VanderBeek (Kitchener, ON)

MEN
Scott Barrett (Toronto, ON)
François Bourque (New Richmond, QC)
Robbie Dixon (Whistler, BC)
Jeffrey Frisch (Mont-Tremblant, QC)Erik Guay (Mont-Tremblant, QC)
John Kucera (Calgary, AB)
Manuel Osborne-Paradis (Vancouver, BC)
Jean-Philippe Roy (Ste-Flavie, QC / Gatineau, QC)
Gareth Sine (Calgary, AB)
Patrick Wright (Oakville, ON)

* Participants list subject to change

EVENT SCHEDULES

2008 TELUS PRESENTS THE WHISTLER WORLD CUP
BROADCAST SCHEDULE

* The TELUS Whistler Men’s Giant Slalom races on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 can be seen  on TSN at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET.

** Subject to change

ABOUT ALPINE CANADA ALPIN
Alpine Canada Alpin (ACA) is the governing body for alpine ski racing in Canada with more than 50,000 athletes, coaches, officials and volunteer members and over 200,000 supporting members. ACA manages the high performance programs for the athletes of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team and the Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team who represent Canada throughout the world. For more information on Alpine Canada Alpin, visit www.canski.org.

ABOUT TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.0 billion of annual revenue and 11.0 million customer connections including 5.4 million wireless subscribers, 4.4 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. Committed to being Canada’s premier corporate citizen, we give where we live. Since 2000, TELUS and our team members have contributed more than $91 million to charitable and non-profit organizations and volunteered more than 1.7 million hours of service to local communities. Eight TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com