December, 2009 // Posts published in December, 2009
New Years Day Ski Jumping
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There’s almost no better way to start the new year than snuggled up on the sofa watching some complete nutters hurl themselves at nearly 95km/h to fly 141metres through the air onto icy snow. Garmisch-Partenkirchen is the place to be, and if you can’t, then book your favourite TV seat and join the 30,000 crowd...
Christmas Snow Report
By James Smith, French Office The past weekend saw heavy snowfalls making the news all over Europe, with the Alps receiving their fair share. The Tarantaise resorts of Val d’Isère, Tignes, Les Arcs, La Plagne, Ste Foy, Courchevel and Meribel currently have at least 90cm of snow on all slopes. Although this week will not...
Ski Jump World Cup – Engelberg result
Local boy (and former Olympic Champion), Simon Ammann secured first place at the latest found of the FIS ski jump World Cup, at Engelberg, Switzerland. The world rankings leader, Gregor Schlierenzauer was pushed back to sixth place. Due to the increasingly dangerous wind conditions at the Swiss jump, the first round attempts were also the...
Snowboard Big Air – Seoul
The LG Snowboard FIS World Cup Big Air circus rolled into the South Korean city of Seoul over the weekend, and drew a crowd of 300,000! Could Stefan Gimpl maintain his dominance of the 2009/10 Big Air events? This was one of the highest profile comps, pushed very hard by the city. The 34 metre...
Weekly Snow Report
Weekly Snow Report By James Smith, French Office Heavy snow has been falling all over the Alps, accompanied by temperatures well below freezing, particularly at night. In the Northern Alps, 20cm fell in Chamonix over the past couple of days, with 10cm coming down in Morzine and Les Gets to add to last week’s significant...
Ski Video – Sammy Carlson ‘Re:Session’
It’s about time the spinning genius that is Sammy Carlson was brought to the hallowed Community pages. In particular you really have to check out this season’s offering from Teton Gravity Research: ‘Re:Session’. The guy is a jibmeister of the first order. At 20, Carlson already has two X-Games Silver medals (from Aspen, 2007 and...
US Snowboarding Grand Prix – Copper Mountain
Shaun White and Louis Vito went (pretty much) straight from guest spots on the US version of “Strictly Ballroom” (“Dancing with the Stars”) to the Copper Mountain Grand Prix. White took first spot (helped by putting in one extra points scoring move), followed by Vito, with Kelly Clark and Gretchen Bleiler securing the women’s placings....
World Cup Combined Results
Austrian, Benjamin Raich took the Val d’Isere Super Combined on the demanding, and extremely icy, Face Bellevarde course this Friday. He finished with a combined time of 2minutes 7.71seconds, which was 0.89 seconds ahead of fellow Austrian, Marcel Hirscher. The Austrian team have lagged behind Switzerland in recent years, this result will give a further...
Skis are Dangerous!
Former Italian Alpine skiier Kristian Ghedina, (he was Italy’s top Skiing World Cup competitior, with thirteen wins), believes that modern skis are responsible for the current spate of high profile competition crashes. Writing for Eurosport, the columnist points to the injuries sustained by John Kucera, TJ Lannng and Deinise Karbon to back up his belief....
Don’t Catch Your Death
The British Ambassador to France, Peter Westmacott, has just launched an anti-binge drinking campaign aimed at reducing alcohol related accidents amongst Brits in the Alps. This follows the unfortunate death of 20 year old Rebecca Ward in Val d’Isere, last year. Although not a heavy drinker, after leaving the pub early that night Ward died...
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