Skiing News
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By AFP
Georgia -
With its rugged landscape of rocky peaks, virgin slopes and breathtaking vistas, Georgia's most isolated region, Upper Svaneti, is a magnet for skiers and even hopes to host the Winter Olympics one day.
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By AFP
Lyon -
A late-season avalanche killed two skiers and their guide in the French Alps near the Italian border Tuesday, local officials said.The avalanche struck in the Albaron area, the mayor of nearby Bonneval-sur-Arc, Gabriel Blanc, told AFP.
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Lyon -
A Dutch snowboarder and a skier have been killed and two other people are missing after a series of avalanches in the French Alps following heavy snowfall, local officials said Wednesday.
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Tignes -
An avalanche forced skiers to jump out of their skis Tuesday at the popular French Alps resort of Tignes but no one was seriously injured, a local official said.
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As many people celebrated Christmas around the world, three parts of Europe experienced difficulties: flooding, the discovery of a World War II bomb and a broken ski lift which left people stranded mid-air.
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Grenoble -
A French teacher who took students onto a closed skiing piste in the French Alps where an avalanche killed two of them and a Ukrainian tourist has been charged with involuntary homicide, his lawyer said on Saturday.
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By AFP
Grenoble -
A French teacher faces a manslaughter investigation after he led a group of students onto a closed skiing piste in the French Alps where an avalanche killed two of them as well as a Ukrainian tourist, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Banner Elk -
Sugar Mountain spent summer 2015 busy bringing skiing in North Carolina into the modern era, installing the first Chondola in the state. Time from base to the 5300' summit will be under 5 minutes.
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Albany -
As nearby Pennsylvania places the majority of its energy bet on its shale gas industry, New York State takes a decidedly different approach going with expanded Clean Energy initiatives.
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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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By Reuters
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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Grenoble -
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.
Remember the government shutdown?
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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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Installations and improvements to Sugar Mountain ski Resort during the summer preparing for the 2015 Ski Season.
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Weekend crowd at Beech Mountain, North Carolina
Skiers standing at the top of Sugar Mountain, in North Carolina after a winter storm left snow and hoar frost coating trees for miles.
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Dopplemayr Chondola base being installed at Sugar Mountain, North Carolina.
Installations and improvements to Sugar Mountain ski Resort during the summer preparing for the 2015 Ski Season.
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