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RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Feb 02, 2012

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Russia Must Host More Ski Events - Olympic chief
RIA Novosti
Russia must strive to host as many ski events as possible because of the sport's huge popularity in the country, the National Olympic Committee head Alexander Zhukov said Thursday. The main goal for the country's skiauthorities this season is to ...
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Ski Orienteering makes its way from Northern Europe to Tahoe
Sierra Sun
Royal Gorge is one of the Tahoe-area stops for the Ski Orienteering World Cup race series this week. SODA SPRINGS, Calif. — Racers from 15 different countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Russia and Finland, are in the Tahoe area this week ...
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Russia's Evgeniy Garanichev, Germany's Magdalena Neuner win biathlon World Cup...
Washington Post
Garanichev shot cleanly and finished in 25 minutes, 22.2 seconds at Oslo's Holmenkollen ski stadium. Germany's Arnd Peiffer was 0.7 seconds behind. Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen finished third with two penalties, 11.8 seconds back.
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Paralympic Nordic Skiing World Cup attracts athletes to Minneapolis
Pioneer Press
Paralympics in Torino, Italy, in 2006 and Vancouver, Canada, in 2010 and hopes to make the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. Paralympic Nordic skiers from the US compete in relative obscurity. There's more support for Nordic skiing and ...
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Feminist punk band Pussy Riot take revolt to the Kremlin
The Guardian
... wearing a hot-pink ski mask and matching stockings. They decline to reveal the smallest details, aiming to maintain total secrecy. They will say only that most of the band members met at the small protests held by Russia's once-feebled opposition,...
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The Guardian
Cold snap takes hold across Alps
Tignesnet.com
by Robin Deering | Ski Editor | published: 2nd Feb, 2012 A severe cold weather front from Russia is closing in and will see temperatures plummet across the whole of the Alps. Thermometers will struggle to record low temperatures of -39°C expected at ...
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Tignesnet.com
The most expensive ski hotel in the world is located in France
Hotel Business News
Courchevel, by the way, is the only winter sports resort in France, which is represented in list of the most expensive skihotels in the world. But, thanks to the famous millionaires fromRussia, Courchevel is represented by three hotels in the list.
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Hotel Business News
Athlete spotlight: Assorted emotions
Aspen Times
Editor's note: The Aspen Times is partnering with the US Ski and Snowboard Association this winter to provide firsthand accounts, results and weekly updates on the Roaring Fork Valley's world-class athletes. In this installment of “Athlete Spotlight,” ...
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Devon Kershaw sprints to bronze
Canada.com
By Postmedia News February 2, 2012 1:32 PM Sudbury, Ont.'s Devon Kershaw skied to his second-straight bronze medal in a skate-ski sprint at the cross-country skiing World Cup in Moscow on Thursday. The 29-year-old Kershaw advanced to the head-to-head ...
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The guests wore hardhats
Russia Beyond The Headlines
By the time the XXII Winter Olympic Games begin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in two years' time, all the roadside drain pipes and ski jumps will be completed, but for the moment, developers, engineers and construction workers from all overRussia ...
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Russia Beyond The Headlines
Duncan all about speed and crossing line
London Free Press
By Ryan Pyette, The London Free Press The most heart-stopping part of skicross isn't always roaring down a mountain while trying to avoid crashing into three other racers. Sometimes, it's the journey to the next World Cup stop.
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Bohm helps Germany to relay glory
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
And it was a good thing they had the pace as Norway's quartet accrued just six penalties in the range in comparison but could only ski to silver little over ten seconds adrift. Meanwhile,Russian Alexey Volkov, who has two individual gold medals to his ...
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Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Karachay-Cherkessiya: how the Caucasus is feeding itself
Open Democracy
The nationalist-populist leader of Russia's protest movement Aleksey Navalny has made much of a claim that the Kremlin has been 'feeding' unruly citizens in the North Caucasus at the expense of 'ordinary' Russians. Mikhail Loginov visited a small...
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Open Democracy
The PlanetSKI Snow report
PlanetSKI.eu
We have reported elsewhere on PlanetSKI on the cold snap hitting Europe but here is our detailed weekly snow report of conditions in ski resorts across the world. It is cold and snowy, just how winter should be. In the Alps it is due to fall to -20c by ...
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PlanetSKI.eu
Garanichev, Neuner are biathlon World Cup winners
NBCSports.com
OSLO, Norway - Russia's Evgeniy Garanichev won a 10-kilometer biathlon sprint Thursday for his first World Cup victory. Germany's Magdalena Neuner captured the women's event. Garanichev shot cleanly and finished in 25 minutes, 22.2 seconds at Oslo's ...
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NBCSports.com
GOLD FOR SARAH
Midland Free Press
She dedicated the win toher friend By IAN BUSBY Up until Thursday night, Rosalind Groenewoud was having a tough time focusing on skiing. After the death two weeks ago of Sarah Burke, who crashed in a training run Jan. 10 in Utah, the entire Canadian ...
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Gallery: Europe, Asia blanketed in snow
Independent Online
Photo: Reuters A tourist skis with warm fancy clothing in the Thuringian Forest near Oberhof, central Germany. Germany faces a heavy winter with lots of snow and cold temperatures down to minus 15 degrees Celsius at night. Photo: AP A snowplough clears ...
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Independent Online
Fog....40...a March-like Groundhog Day (no arctic relapse thru mid February)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
January 31, 2012 - Due to unusually warm temperatures, all of the Madison Parks outdoor ice rinks, ski trails, snowshoe trails and sledding hills are closed. Staff will attempt to re-open these facilities later this winter if/when conditions allow.
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Canadian Kershaw earns cross-country bronze
CBC.ca
Canada's Devon Kershaw raced to his second consecutive bronze medal Thursday in the men's freestyle sprint at a cross-country skiing World Cup meet in Moscow. The 29-year-old from Sudbury, Ont., dominated his quarter-final and semifinal heats before ...
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CBC.ca
Easing the Russian ski traffic | EUROCONTROL
Unsurprisingly, Russians love to ski - and especially over the new year and the Orthodox Christmas holidays. This “ski traffic” is becoming heavier and ...
www.eurocontrol.int/news/easing-russian-ski-traffic
Skiing the Planet: Russian Ski Stars
I climbed a mountain, and found a ski movie actress from Russia on the top! I met with Катя Коровина (Katya Korovina) and Алексей Логинов (Alexei Loginov) ...
planetskier.blogspot.com/2012/01/russian-ski-stars.html
Russian Ski Jumpers Practicing in Finland.MOV - YouTube
Listen to the Ski Jumpers as they approach, it sounds like the wind!http://www. swagbucks.com ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZA9DGtXVZE
PlanetSKI | News | Skiing in Russia
Normally in The Alps at the bottom of the main lift there is an attendant to ensure you have a pass and perhaps help you with your skis. In this part ofRussia ...
www.planetski.eu/news/3474
Physio's Unusual Move to Russia Takes Her Inside Legkov's ...
Swiss Coach Hetland Successful and Unique on World Cup Circuit. Physio's Unusual Move to Russia Takes Her Inside Legkov's Renegade SkiTeam ...
fasterskier.com/.../physios-unusual-move-to-russia-takes-her-i...
Chaykovskiy: first ski jump to be ready soon » Ski Jumping Hill ...
On February 5 Russian prime minister is going to pay a visit to the skijumping hill construction site at Chaykovskiy and around a week later the firstski jump of ...
www.skisprungschanzen.com/.../0092-Chaykovskiy%3A+first...
Russia Must Host More Ski Events - Olympic chief - RIA Novosti ...
Russia must strive to host as many ski events as possible because of the sport's huge popularity in the country, the National Olympic Committee head Alexander ...
en.rian.ru/sports/20120202/171091027.html
Russian Ski Jumpers.MOV - YouTube
The view of the ski jump from the end of the approach, the jumpers actually go over our heads.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHsB4tOrzdA
Easing the Russian ski traffic | EUROCONTROL
... to ensure the best possible performance of the European aviation network during these busy weeks. Unsurprisingly, Russians love to ski - and especially ...
www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/top_russian_ski.jpg
Sochi Ski Jump Olympic Test Event Postponed - Officials
The Russian Cup, a national ski jumping competition, had been slated for February 12 to 17, but has now been moved to a another city, while a different ...
en.ria.ru/sports/20120131/171052229.html
Russia Must Host More Ski Events - Olympic chief
Russia must strive to host as many ski events as possible because of the sport's huge popularity in the country, the National Olympic Committee head...
en.ria.ru/sports/20120202/171091027.html
Cross Country Canada - Russia Leads on First Day of Nordic Skiing ...
Russia Leads on First Day of Nordic Skiing World Cup. January 27, 2012. After six medal events, Russia had three gold, two silver and three bronze medals from ...
www.cccski.com/.../Russia-Leads-on-First-Day-of-Nordic-Skii...
Codename Bankski: The 'Russian Banksy' brings guerilla art to ...
Known only as P183 - or Bankski, due to Russia's climate and the similarity of ..... of father's hand and plunged 25ft from ski lift and into arms of rescuers below ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Codename-Bankski-The-Russian-Ban...
Team Russia takes silver, bronze in ski racing: Voice of Russia
Russia's Natalya Korosteleva and Anastasiya Dotsenko have taken silver and bronze in the 1,5 km sprint in the Ski Racing event in Moscow. Gold went to ...
english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/02/65191256.html
Skiing in Russia | Budownictwo
PlanetSKI is in Sochi, Russia, the city that hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics. Our content editor has drunk vodka, been moved on by the security services and ...
budownictwo.co.uk/2012/skiing-in-russia/
Crystal's Russia Trips: Latest, snowHeads ski forum
Anybody been/going? Just wondering as always intrigued by the possibility ofskiing somewhere new and... snowHeads ski club 2.0 is the friendliest skiclub ...
snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1962086
Physio's Unusual Move to Russia Takes Her Inside ... - eWallstreeter
Physio's Unusual Move to Russia Takes Her Inside Legkov's Renegade SkiTeam. From: FasterSkier.com - 8:02am - February 1, 2012. In the summer of 2010 , ...
ewallstreeter.com/physio-s-unusual-move-to-russia-takes-her-i...
  
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