This weekend’s Stockholm Big Air, held in the 1912 Olympic Stadium, event was won by Canada’s Sebastien Toutant, a few days after turning eighteen, with 51.3 points.
With the overnight low temperatures just beginning to rise, here are some shots from a few French resorts around 9am on Friday the 19th of November.
Battersea power station, home to London's Freeze Festival, may begin it's long awaited re-birth as developers unveil plans, and gain crucial local authority approval. Work should start in early 2012, according to Real Estate Opportunities.
Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium plays host to the second Big Air event of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season: the 'Stadium Winter Jam'
According to The Telegraph, the Pope acknowledged skiing as showing "steadfastness in pursuing aims, respect for the rules, tenacity in confronting and surmounting difficulties."
The pressure on air fares is increasing yet again. In common with certain other European nations, a ‘Green Tax’ is now to be levied by Austria, from January the first 2011.
Following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board failed to make a decision about the new Olympic snow sports, the International Ski Federation (FIS) has announced that the 2011 FIS Freestyle Snowboard World Championships will include ski and Snowboard Slopestyle events.
More information about a new indoor snow slope on a former airfield at Weston-super-Mare are coming to light. thisisBristol website report that the Leisured Dome UK Limited development would be part of a bigger redevelopment of the 386 acre airfield site, including both business park and residential housing projects. Outline planning permission already exists for...
Another extra charge looks like being levied on the hard-pressed air passenger. On top of the UK’s Air Passenger Duty, and certain airport‘s ‘development charge’, there are now reports that an Austrian airport tax is to be introduced.
It was a clean sweep for the Swedes in the Freeskiing at Sunday night’s London Freeze Festival Freeskiing. Countering the rubbish grey, wet n windy conditions.
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