Wintersports Rediscovered
Earlier this month the LG FIS World Cup at Cardrona Alpine Resort in New Zealand started with a closely fought semi finals followed by a spectacular final which saw an all- Japanese victory with Kohhei Kudoh and Shiho Nakashima taking the men’s and women’s titles respectively.
Continue reading ‘Japanese triump at snowboarding FIS World Cup in NZ’
Cypress Mountain, located just north of Vancouver on the road to Whistler and the Official Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard Venue for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games has announced that the new Cypress Creek Lodge will be opening this winter season. The Lodge is part of a $40m spend ahead of the Games.
Russia’s former president Vladimir Putin, a keen skier and personally instrumental in winning the 2014 Olympics for the Black Sea resort of Sochi, is reported to have bowed to growing pressure from environmental campaigners regarding the location of some of the venues for the Games.
Continue reading ‘Putin wants 2014 Winter Olympic venues moved’
Jamaica hopes to enter the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 with their first competitor since the famous appearance of the country’s bobsleigh team at the Calgary Games 18 years ago which led to the Cool Runnings movie.
Continue reading ‘Jamaica: the sequel - return to 2010 Winter Olympics’
Why is it that in 2008, we’ve have to come to these types of measures? It would seem quite logical that women and men should be on the same level playing field when it comes to sports…however archaic rules governed by an old boys club riddled by controversy and politics have created the following embarrassment for the International Olympic Committee and those tasked with organizing the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games…
Some of the world’s best female ski jumpers from Norway, Austria, Germany, Slovenia and the United States have launched a legal action against the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Continue reading ‘World’s Leading Women Ski Jumpers Sue 2010 Olympic Organisers Over Ban’
With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.
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Four police officers are currently being taught to ski in a program to build up a slope security force ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Local officials have announced that security and public order is a concern as skier numbers grow ahead of the Olympics.
One of the four trainees, police officer Artyom Bogatov told local media that their work would be cut out once the Games start.
The capacity of this ski lift is at least 2,000 people a day. There are a lot of spots where you can buy drinks. So people can get drunk, get aggressive, even commit crimes,”
he said.
When the unit becomes fully operational, the officers will be able to ensure public order as well as helping tourists who find themselves with any problems on the slopes. They’ll also have a new ski police uniform.