It had been a long time coming, but Aksel Lund Svindal could not be denied. The Viking claimed his first Kitzbuehel win Friday (Jan 25) winning the super G on an overcast day that dissolved the clarity of vision. He had never won in either of the sports two biggest weekends - Wengen and Kitzbuehel - and he had started 33 races here.

“You hear it in every interview,” Svindal said.”Today I've managed to take the pressure and use it.”

The surprise of the day was in second where the fastest Austrian of the day was none of the favored skiers, but 22 year old Matthias Mayer with his first World Cup podium.

Cardiff Point project development approval may finally be the missing link to build a long awaited snowdome.

Could this be a sign, now that the company behind the elusive project to build a snowdome in Cardiff Bay has received  the green light for a  £200 million  ($ 400-million USD) residential development in the area? Locals sure hope so.  Continue reading ‘Property development in Cardiff, brings hope of a Snow Centre’

Sarah Burke as pictured on the Sarah Burke Foundation website

 A new foundation to help those in need, has been set up to honour Sarah Burke  (www.sarahburkefoundation.com) who died last January  during a freerider practice in Utah.

Continue reading ‘Sarah Burke foundation launched in memory of late freerider’

First snowboard World Cup heads to Quebec City area this weekend

Having hosted eight consecutive editions of the FIS World Snowboard Cup since 2005, Stoneham Mountain Resort near Quebec City in Canada will go one step further when it hosts the World Championships, on weekends of January 18th and 27th, 2013. Continue reading ‘First World Snowboard championships coming to Quebec’

Next week’s 17th edition of the Winter X Games marks a return of this snowy action in Aspen. Each year, the event is more intense and the competitive level are bigger. The Winter X Games have grown and helped shape a number of other world-class extreme ski competitions around the world. But it’s influence goes beyond the immediate extreme skiing community, as the event attracts millions of eyeballs around the world and on the Internet that pay big dividents to ESPN , the main driver of these games. Krush media gave us a top view of this event by the numbers as to just what people are doing with this event.   Continue reading ‘Aspen Winter X Games, bring extreme numbers and prizes at play’

Ski Plex facility opens up

A new Skiplex (www.skiplex.co.uk) rotating ski slope has opened at Woodley near, Reading, the company’s second, opening only a year after the company’s first at Chiswick.

The new slope is located in a formerly disused warehouse in Headley Park 10 where the company has installed its conveyor style slope

“This would be a very useful tool for beginners and intermediates and racing skiers who need a rolling surface,” Paul Webb, father of Wokingham’s 2014 Winter Olympic hopeful James told local media, “It will definitely have a place in ski training and I’m sure it will be welcomed in Woodley.”

Skiplex is already working on a third location, the Airkix indoor skiing and skydiving centre coming to Basingstoke in 2013.

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Valle Nevado base station in the early stages of construction

With the 2012-13 ski season just gathering pace in the northern hemisphere, it’s still six months until the southern hemisphere’s 2013 winter season kicks off, but Chile’s first ski area gondola is nearing completion and is ready to open in February 2013.

Located in Valle Nevado, one of the closest ski areas to capital Santiago, ´the Gondola will feature 70 cars with space for 6 people each and will carry skiers and tourists from the 17th Curve Service Area in Gondola Plaza to the Bajo Zero Restaurant, which sits mid-mountain, creating a fast route to the heart of the ski area.

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