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Skiers in Norway have been startled recently when they've come across snakes wiggling over the snow, and in some cases these have been the country’s only venomous species.
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Austria's Marcel Hirscher won his third successive overall alpine skiing World Cup title after placing fourth in the giant slalom in the finals at Lenzerheide on Saturday.
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Marlies Schild, the most successful slalom specialist in the history of the alpine skiing World Cup, said she was contemplating retirement after finishing third in Lenzerheide on Saturda...
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Austria was heading for a brilliant World Cup double on Thursday when Anna Fenninger secured the women's alpine skiing World Cup title and Marcel Hirscher took a giant step towards retaining the men's trophy.
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Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch crashed heavily and was taken to hospital at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide on Wednesday, ending her chances of winning the overall title.
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Austrian Anna Fenninger clocked the 16th fastest time of the women's and men's fields combined in World Cup downhill training on Tuesday.
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With two wins in three days on home snow in Kvitfjell, Kjetil Jansrud showed there could be greater things to come following his Olympic Super-G title in Sochi.
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Austrian Andrea Fischbacher beat Sochi gold medalists Anna Fenninger and Tina Maze to win the World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana on Sunday, in the process winning her first race for f...
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The shin injury she suffered in training at the Sochi Olympics has ended Tina Weirather's season, the Alpine skier from Liechtenstein said on Wednesday.
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Olympic fever is in the air, and Twitter is abuzz with nationalistic hashtags like #GoCanadaGo and #WeAreWinter. But are the ordinary Canadians who rally their athletes in Sochi really the winter enthusiasts the media would have the world believe?
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Piste conditions for Sunday's showcase men's Olympic downhill are currently excellent, Alpine skiing officials said on Wednesday.
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Austrian skiing officials have shrugged off the pain of Olympic failure since the last Winter Games and they are hoping Sochi will also help the media forget the nightmare of Vancouver.
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It took Frida Hansdotter six seasons and eight second places before finally winning a World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora on Sunday.
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Olympic downhill champion Didier Defago signalled his return to form two weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi when he won a Super-G in Kitzbuehel on Sunday.
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According to doctors in the Grenoble hospital where Michael Schumacher is being treated, the seven-times world Formula One champion is "fighting for his life" and slipping into a coma.
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At Saturday's World Cup downhill in Val d'Isere, France, American Lindsey Vonn appeared to injure her surgically repaired knee. On the comeback trial from that injury, Vonn missed a gate and balanced awkwardly, clutching her knee.
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Aspen -
If you watch the Sochi Winter Games, you may not see the best U.S. Paralympic skiers, or may not see them in their best shape.
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Top ski racer Lindsey Vonn is back in snow six months after her terrifying fall during the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria last February.
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The Hague -
Prince Johan Friso of Holland died today Monday August 12. The prince, aged 44, was the younger brother of the new King Willem-Alexander and had been in a coma for 18 months following a skiing accident.
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North Carolina does not typically conjure up images of a white winter wonderland, but something many do not know about this destination, popular for its sandy Atlantic Beaches, wind surfing, and golf is it has a winter wonderland waiting to be enjoyed.
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South Lake Tahoe -
If you have ever wondered how some musicians spend their free time, a new video from one musicians' winter vacation may give you some insight.
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In just two days, six Russian tourists were killed and two injured in a snowmobile accident and two Italian skiers have died in an avalanche, on Mount Cermis in the Fiemme Valley of northern Italy.
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The extreme lack of knowledge on the existence and dangers of tree wells became very apparent me to me a year ago when skiing with my brother at Whistler Mountain, British Columbia.
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Grindelwald -
For the second time this year, the Canadian ski community is in mourning after racer Nik Zoricic died during a World Cup event in Switzerland on Saturday.
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The year of 2011 may be remembered as the winter that wasn’t in many parts of North America, but for me it will be remembered as the year I perfected my skiing, snowshoeing, and snowboarding skills.
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Sarajevo -
The Sarajevo Winter Olympics of 1984 started 28 years ago today, and the Bosnian ski slopes are once again very much open for business.
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Marquette -
An urban skier on the city streets of Marquette, Michigan, who launched off a ramp while performing a rail slide, became stuck on a pole as he exited the jump, leaving him hanging above the ground with his legs dangling below him.
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Sarah Burke, a freestyle skier from Canada, is dead at the age of 29. She was critically injured during practice at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah on January 10. She was 29.
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Quebec -
The Charlevoix region in the province of Quebec (Canada) is a 6,000 square kilometer protected UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, rich in forests, streams, and wildlife. It's a great place to visit anytime of year, including winter.
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An elite American Olympic athlete was detained by a flight crew during a cross-country flight after allegedly urinating on a young child.
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A young girl skiing at Horseshoe Valley Ski Hill, Ontario, Canada.
Skiers standing at the top of Sugar Mountain, in North Carolina after a winter storm left snow and hoar frost coating trees for miles.
A skier skis in a snow storm on Sugar Mountain, North Carolina
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North Carolina skiers on the Lowing Flyer Mile run at Sugar Mountain ski resort, North Carolina.
Barbara Hillary training for her expedition to the North Pole. Photo courtesy of Barbara Hillary
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Crowds at Sugar Mountain, North Carolina showing the typical above freezing temperatures on the sign.
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