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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Austria’s Stefan Gimpl completed his Snowboarding World Cup hat-trick with big air gold in Stockholm.The 30-year old is undefeated in big air events since January’s World Championships in Gangwon, Korea and has started this season like a steamtrain with victories in London and Barcelona.And Gimpl showed no signs that he wou (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Val Thorens, Europe’s highest ski resort in the world’s biggest ski area, the 3 Valleys in France, and the second resort to open in France this winter, has good news for first time skiers visiting this season , as the resort has spent 1.5 million Euros on a state-of-the-art, 40 hectare, special beginners area.This area [... (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports American skier Resi Stiegler is out for the Olympic season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash in giant slalom training, the US Ski Team said Friday.Stiegler, a 2006 Olympian, had surgery to repair her broken tibia and femur.“This was a serious injury for Resi, but her spirit is strong,” US [...] (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Winter 2009-10 is just around the corner for Austria’s Arlberg region, and it’s an especially exciting one for St Anton, as it’s ‘second’ ski area, Rendl, moves closer to the village centre – or at least a new lift makes access from the centre and from the main ski area much easier.The new construction of [...] (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports AustriaDespite the warm weather over Austria at the moment the snow is holding up well and this week more resorts are opening.Thursday 19th November was the first day of the season for Obertauern (25/45cm). Five lifts were opened – Grünwaldkopf, Panoramabahn, Seekarspitzbahn, Kringsalmbahn and Hochalmbahn.Skiers are advised (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Early Season offers from Zenith Holidays.Chalet Louis, Alpe D’Huez: Stay for 3 nights in this delightful chalet and, depending on your flight times, you could be getting almost 4 days skiing! Price £149pp for 3 nights chalet board, 4 nights £199.L’Ours Blanc, Montgenevre: Ranked as the best value resort in France by Where t (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports The growing number of indoor snow centres in the UK makes it possible for Brits to get around a perennial problem that faced us when we bought our ski equipment – testing it first. We had the choice of buying abroad in a ski resort where we could test it but not easily return it to [...] . (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports The Winter Olympics looks set to be dropped from free-to-air coverage following a recommendation to the Department of Culture Media and Sport.While a number of high profile events, most notably the Ashes, have been recommended for addition to the current list of crown jewels’ – the sporting events protected for free-to-air (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Leading French resort La Plagne is recommending Brits grab their new First Tracks tickets to be sure they get the fresh lines in the vast ski area every morning, especially during the busy school holiday period at Christmas, New year and in February.This new pass allows guests to head up to the summit early, ahead [...] (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Ski Sunday returns on 13 December and as well as showcasing the best World Cup action the team will be gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics. It will be presented by Graham Bell and Ed Leigh and will mix classic races with personal insights from Britain’s medal hopes as Vancouver looms. (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports British skier Ed Drake got his Winter Olympic season off to a great start with a podium finish in a European Cup super-G in Reiteralm, Austria. It was Drake’s best race result as he finished third behind Patrick Kueng and Philipp Schoerghofer. “It’s the first opportunity to race and to find out how training has gone. (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Austria’s Reinfried Herbst produced a fine second run to win the men’s World Cup alpine skiing slalom in Levi.Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic was second and France’s Jean-Baptiste Grange was third.Herbst, 31, was fourth after the first run on a course designed by his coach, but found the speed to upstage his rivals and win the six (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports As a cold snap descends on the Wasatch Wednesday bringing significant flakes Friday and Saturday (followed by another sunny, high-pressure system early next week), Ski Utah officials spread cautious optimism through the press rank and file Tuesday at the resort consortium’s annual pre-season state of the union.President Nat (Read More)

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Snow Menu | Home of Winter Sports Former Great Britain ski jumper Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards has revealed he has had surgery to reduce the size of his famously large chin.Edwards captured the nation’s imagination when, as the only member of the British team, he came last at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary sporting his distinctive thick spectacles and mou (Read More)

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