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| World Cup racer, Tina Maze, strips down to bra in protest over underwear controversy Posted on:24-01 at 20:17 |
Slovenian Alpine racer, Tina Maze, stripped down to her bra in front of TV cameras while waiting in the leader's box during Sunday's World Cup super-G race. The white sports bra had a message on it: "Not your business", written in black marker. Her action was in protest at having to submit her underwear to the FIS for testing, after the Swiss complained about it, saying the plastic level in Maze's one-piece garment exceeded FIS rules, giving her an aerodynamic edge ... :: Read more
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| British woman first to ski alone across Antarctica Posted on:24-01 at 20:02 |
The British adventurer, Felicity Aston, became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica this week. It took her 59 days, during which she hauled two sledges around crevasses and over mountains into endless headwinds, past the South Pole and onward to the coastal ice shelf. The journey was 1,744K, from Leverett Galcier to Hercules Inlet ... :: Read more
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| Youth Olympics under way in Innsbruck Posted on:14-01 at 19:22 |
The first Winter Youth Olympics Games (13-22 January) is in full swing after athletes aged 15 to 18 from 70 countries gathered in Innsbruck yesterday for the opening ceremony. Franz Klammer was one of the celebrities present to light the first Winter Youth Olympic flame at the Bergisel Stadium ... :: Read more
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| Champion Freestyle Skier Sarah Burke dies after an accident Posted on:11-01 at 06:40 |
Sarah Burke, 4 times X Games Superpipe champion, is in a coma in hospital today after an accident during training in Park City. It appears she landed a trick in the base of the pipe and 'bounced' onto her head ... :: Read more
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| Shimmy shakey Chemmy an explosion of excitement, say judges Posted on:09-01 at 13:16 |
Britain's number one skier Chemmy Alcott scored 16 points for her first performance in Dancing On Ice. The 29-year-old, who is on the road to recovery from injury, was praised by judges in the ITV programme, which began a new series yesterday evening ... :: Read more
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| Avalanche deaths in Graubunden and Tirol Posted on:03-01 at 15:11 |
A teenager and a German couple have died after being buried in avalanches in the past week. A 14-year-old boy died yesterday in hospital, four days after being caught in a slab avalanche near Celerina in Switzerland's Engadine region ... :: Read more
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| Holy house of snow opens in Germany Posted on:29-12 at 19:14 |
We've heard of igloo hotels and ice bars - now ice and snow have been used to build a church. The 17x16m structure, complete with spire, was blessed and opened yesterday in the village of Mitterfirmiansreut in Bavaria, near the Czech border ... :: Read more
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| Baby born in Austrian ski lodge at 1850m Posted on:25-12 at 21:31 |
A young woman was taken by surprise at the birth of her baby on Christmas eve - in a ski lodge at 1850m in Wagrain in Salzburg Pongau. A doctor, mountain rescue workers, a paramedic and an emergency medical technician all hurried to the scene to find mother and baby doing well. They were transported down the mountain via heated snowcat to the middle station of the gondola "Flying Mozart", and then in an ambulance to hospital.
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| Nine evacuated as fire destroys Rifugio Guglielmina Posted on:23-12 at 09:55 |
One of the most historic. comfortable and popular mountain huts in the Italian Alps burnt to the ground yesterday. It is thought the blaze, in the early morning, may have started in the generator room ... :: Read more
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| Boy 'critical' after fall from chair lift Posted on:20-12 at 19:40 |
A seven-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries after falling 60 feet onto rocks from a chair lift in a resort in California on Sunday. The boy was on the way up the Mount Lincoln Express at Sugar Bowl - north-west of Lake Tahoe - with two other children when he fell ... :: Read more
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| Weekend World Cup racing round-up Posted on:18-12 at 22:40 |
Saturday's men's downhill at Val Gardena was cancelled due to high winds after 21 starters had skied the course. After Didier Cuche's wind-battered run, at 18, organisers called a half-hour break before sending down forerunners plus three more racers, then stopping it for good ... :: Read more
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| Helmet law under way in Nova Scotia Posted on:14-12 at 19:50 |
Plans were set in motion last week in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia to introduce a law making helmets mandatory on its ski slopes. This is the first time such a ski helmet law would apply to adults: existing laws elsewhere – such as Italy – apply only to children ... :: Read more
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| Child dies in Saas-Fee avalanche Posted on:13-12 at 17:51 |
A six-year-old boy died last week in the Swiss resort of Saas-Fee after being buried in a 100m-wide, 300m-long avalanche According to a report in the Nouvelliste, the Valaisan newspaper, he was on the piste with a female instructor in the Felskinn area at 2,900m altitude when it came down in the late morning ... :: Read more
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| Val Thorens is scene for MoS stag party scoop Posted on:13-12 at 16:44 |
An MP has apologised after taking part in a stag party in the French Alps at which Nazi slogans were chanted and one friend dressed in an SS uniform.
A reporter and photographer from the Mail on Sunday came across the “rowdy” group on 3 December in Restaurant La Fondue at Val Thorens, in the Three Valleys, while working on an unrelated story
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| 17-year-old US teen wins inaugural women's World Cup ski jump Posted on:04-12 at 17:36 |
Sarah Hendrickson won the first women's World Cup ski jump in Lillehammer (Norway) this weekend, jumping 95.5 m. Coline Mattel (France) came second, and Melanie Faisst (Germany) third, in a field of nearly 50 women from 15 countries ... :: Read more
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| Virtual torch relay for first Winter Youth Olympics Posted on:20-11 at 18:25 |
The Winter Youth Olympic Games, which is due to take place in Innsbruck in 2 months time, has launched the first Virtual Torch Relay in Olympic history through its Facebook page. The Virtual Torch Relay will end on 27th December, the day the actual Youth Olympic Torch Relay starts. It is open to everyone registered on Facebook and aged 12 years or over. All Virtual Torch Bearers will automatically take part in a draw to win prizes, including the chance to be the first Torch Bearer of the actual Youth Olympic Torch Relay
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| Britons win ski property case in Bulgaria Posted on:20-11 at 18:17 |
A 2-year dispute is over for a group of Britons, who were threatened with violence and arrest over ownership of flats they had bought in a Bulgarian ski resort. The 70 investors have finally won their case and gained access to the appartment block, as well as securing the title deeds to their flats, which they had purchased for £6 million.
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| Kneissl skis live on! Posted on:16-11 at 20:33 |
The sale of the assets of the insolvent Kneissl ski company to the German skateboard manufacturer Kramer Elastics was announced a few weeks ago. Andreas Kramer, the new owner, who also has Erbacher skis and snowboard ranges, as well as a skateboard manufacturing company, aims to have new production up and running by the spring. The whole German operation is being moved to Kufstein in Austria, with plans for movement of the manufacturing equipment and machinery in the advanced stages. Production will resume very shortly, and will continue the way it was - with handmade skis ... :: Read more
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| Iranian women only allowed to ski if accompanied by a male relative Posted on:14-11 at 20:06 |
An Iranian police circular has stated that women and girls are now only allowed to ski in Iran if they are accompanied by a husband, father or brother. Bad news for all those keen female skiers, as the first snow hits the mountains around Tehran ... :: Read more
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| Adventurer first to ski the length of Southern Alps in New Zealand Posted on:14-11 at 19:56 |
Kiwi Erik Bradshaw has become the first person to ski the length of the Southern Alps - 800km in all. His journey took 10 1/2 weeks, and was the vertical metre equivalent of climbing Mt Everest six times over. He even invented new ski equipment to help him, including an exoskeleton binding made of carbon fibre and titanium, which fitted over a normal walking boot to transform it into a ski boot with crampons.
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