In a week where the Winter Olympics came to an end, the main skiing news unsurprisingly came from the slopes and streets of Whistler Blackcomb and Vancouver. But, don’t despair. If after 2 weeks you’ve had enough of staying up late to watch another yet member of Team GB not make the podium (apart from [...]
The snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij made Dutch and Olympic history, when she became the first snow sports athlete from her country to win a medal in a snow discipline.
Sauerbreij’s medal was also the 100th for the Netherlands in Olympic history. 30 year old Sauerbreij won gold in the Ladies parallel giant slalom.
Revelstoke Mountain Resort in British Columbia, Canada, not only has the biggest lift-served vertical in North America, but uniquely in the world, they believe, they offer lift-served, cat or heli ski and board operations from a single resort base to their guests.
In a week where Amy Williams romped home with an Olympic gold medal, the rest of the world has been getting busy with all sorts of ski stuff. The snow leopard is ready to ski, Italy will welcome skiing soldiers to the World Winter Games and there’s another new iPhone ski app. It’s hard to [...]
New Zealand’s Cardrona Alpine Resort is currently installing a fourth chairlift in phase one of an expansion project which will increase the resort’s boundaries and the number of intermediate and advanced runs on offer. This means Cardrona will now have more chairlifts than any other South Island mountain.
Following the news that Britain’s governing body of snow sports, Snowsport GB, has gone into administration, the British Snowboard Association (BSA) has announced it will retake control of snowboarding in the UK.
