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FRANCE Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Mar 15, 2012

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Alpine skiing: Vonn adds super-G to title haul
Chicago Tribune
SCHLADMING, Austria (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn added a fourth crystal trophy to her 2012 haul in Thursday's super-G won by Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg at the Alpine ski World Cup finals. However, the American overall World Cup winner was furious after ...
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Follow-cam man
ESPN
And at Winter X Tignes this week in France, there is a crew of six them chasing skiers and snowboarders down the SuperPipe and Slopestyle courses to capture the point-of-view footage that brings the televised broadcast to life.
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ESPN
Bobby Brown back on top in Slopestyle
ESPN
By Megan Michelson TIGNES, France -- American Bobby Brown returned to the top position in the Men's Ski Slopestyle finals at Winter X Games Tignes on Thursday, while countryman Tom Wallisch, the defending champ from Winter X Games Aspen, ...
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Turski Three-Peat
ESPN
TIGNES, France -- Canada's Kaya Turski won her third consecutive Winter X Games Tignes gold medal during Wednesday's Women's ski slopestyle finals and her sixth ESPN X Games event gold. Australia's Anna Segal and Canada's Dara Howell took silver and ...
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Kaya Turski Makes History at Winter X Games Europe
Yahoo! Sports
... France, and in no time history was already being made. If this kind of intensity continues, winter sports fans are surely in for an incredible week. The history-making moment took place at the Women's Ski Slopestyle finals, courtesy of Kaya Turski.
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Vonn wins World Cup super-G title
FOXSports.com
The overall World Cup champion narrowly avoiding skiing out on a blistering run, taking a 1.22-second advantage over leader Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany into the final intermediate time check, but went off course and just made the next gate shortly ...
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Rebensburg wins women's SG event; Vonn wins SG title
Sports Network
So it's cool to be skiing that fast in one event." Another big surprise Thursday was France's Marion Rolland, who, after landing her first ever World Cup podium in Wednesday's final downhill race, followed up with a third place (0.21 away from the win) ...
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Alpine skiing: Svindal wins super-G World Cup
Reuters
Innerhofer won the race in one minute 21.24 seconds, with a 0.02-second lead over France's Alexis Pinturault while Hirscher was a surprise third, 0.06 adrift. Swiss Feuz's hopes for the super-G title vanished in his crash which also dented his ...
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Innerhofer wins SG in Schladming; WC leader Feuz struggles
Sports Network
... opening gold medal run at last year's world ski championships, Italian Christof Innerhofer charged to victory in the final World Cup men's super G of the season in Schladming on Thursday, edging France's Alexis Pinturault by a mere 0.02 seconds.
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Vonn wins World Cup super-G title in Austria
Albany Times Union
ERIC WILLEMSEN, AP Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, shows the trophy of the alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G discipline title, in Schladming, Austria, Thursday, March 15, 2012. (Alessandro Trovati / AP) Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, ...
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Clark, Turski win early at Winter X Games Tignes
USA TODAY
France's Kevin Rolland, a two-time gold medalist in Winter X Europe, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in a practice round Tuesday. That leaves the door open in skisuperpipe for American David Wise, who has won three consecutive ...
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USA TODAY
Canada's Alex Bellemare finishes fifth in men's ski slopestyle at Euro X Games
Winnipeg Free Press
TIGNES, France - Alex Bellemare took some time off from flipping burgers to finish fifth in men's ski slopestyle at the European X Games. Bellemare, from St. Boniface, Que., had 91.33 points Thursday behind gold medallist Bobby Brown of the United ...
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Kaya Turski Wins Winter X Games Europe Ski Slopestyle, US Women Sweep Snowboard
About - News & Issues
By Mike Doyle, About.com Guide March 15, 2012 Here at Tignes, France in the Winter X Games Europe Kaya Turski of Canada won her sixth straight event taking the women's ski slopestyle, with Australia's Anna Segal second and Canada's Dara Howell in third ...
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Overall leader Beat Feuz crashes
ESPN
World champion Christof Innerhofer of Italy won the race, edging Alexis Pinturault of France by 0.02 and Hirscher by 0.06. "My season has not been easy," said Innerhofer, who sustained concussion earlier this season and recently had back problems.
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Masterful performance for USA's Vonn; wins DH in Schladming
Sports Network
... the finish line of the 2013 world championships course in 1 minute, 46.56 seconds, leaving everyone more than a second behind her except for Marion Rolland of France, who earned her first career World Cup podium in second place, 0.92 seconds back.
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Swiss Bus Crash Kills 22 Children, Six Adults on Ski Trip
BusinessWeek
By Paul Verschuur and Giles Broom on March 14, 2012 The cause of a crash of a bus carrying schoolchildren back to Belgium from a ski vacation in Switzerland, killing 28 people and injuring 24 others on board, is unclear, police said.
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Vonn takes World Cup downhill for 12th season win
Windsor Star
By ERIC WILLEMSEN, AP March 14, 2012 Lindsey Vonn of the USA takes the Overall Downhill World Cup globe during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Downhill on March 14, 2012 in Schladming, Austria. SCHLADMING, Austria - Lindsey Vonn won a ...
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Svindal, Vonn claim World Cup super-G titles in Austria
Taipei Times
AP and AFP, Schladming, Austria Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway takes part yesterday in the men's super-G at the Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Schladming, Austria. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the World Cup super-G title for a third time yesterday ...
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Lindsey Vonn wins Austria World Cup super-G
ABC30.com
Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G, in Schladming, Austria, Thursday, March 15, 2012. Vonn won the World Cup super-G title Thursday after narrowly avoiding skiing out and finishing ...
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ABC30.com
22 Belgian children, 6 adults die in bus crash returning from ski trip in ...
Fox News
GENEVA – A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 school children and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized, ...
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Fox News
Bobby Brown Wins 2012 Euro X Slopestyle
Freeskier Magazine
After a couple year hiatus from the top of an X Games podium, Young Brown has taken the big W in Tignes, France today. Under yet another sunny and warm day in the French Alps, the pros were putting on quite the display, but it was all Brown, ...
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Freeskier Magazine
Alpine Ski: Innerhofer wins SuperG, Svindal wins the cup
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
Innerhofer finished the race in 1'21"24, preceding France's Alexis Pinturault (1'21"26) and Austria's Marcel Hirscher (1'21"30). The other Italian skier, Matteo Marsaglia, made an outstanding 4th place (1'21"46) while Peter Fill finished 25th (1'26"90) ...
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Ski whizz kid Liam on a winning run
Milngavie Herald
The Scottish Alpine Championships start at the end of this month in Courchevel, France. The following week are the British championships in the French resort of Meribel. Since the age of nine Liam has been a member of Bearsden Ski Club's race team and ...
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Milngavie Herald
Swiss Crash Kills 28, Mostly Children
Wall Street Journal
... returning from a ski trip grieved on Wednesday. The Tuesday night accident, one of the deadliest bus crashes in Swiss history, occurred in a tunnel near the town of Sierre, said the police of the canton of Valais, which borders France and Italy.
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Wall Street Journal
Ski trip coach crash: Belgium PM declares day of mourning
Telegraph.co.uk
Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo offered his condolences to the families of the victims of a bus crash that killed 28 people, mostly children who were part of a school party headed home from a ski trip in Switzerland. "We're all in shock.
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Vonn wins final WCup downhill for 12th victory
San Antonio Express
Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, shows the trophy of the alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill discipline title, in Schladming, Austria, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Lindsey Vonn ended the women's World Cup downhill season in style by dominating the ...
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Spring is here
PlanetSKI.eu
FRANCE: Although the slopes are now quieter and the temperatures warm, the ski season is still far from over in France. After some light snowfalls in the middle of last week of 5cm to 20cm, the weather is mostly sunny and some small, low lying ski...
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PlanetSKI.eu
Global warming will take skiing to new heights
Morznet.com
Meteo France have concluded that our winter ski seasons as we know them are on borrowed time, predicting significant changes from 2030 that will really start to impact our ski resorts. In accordance with the Swiss reports, Meteo France claim the Alps...
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Morznet.com
Aksel Lund Svindal wins men's World Cup super-G title; Feuz misses chance to ...
SI.com
World champion Christof Innerhofer of Italy won the race, edging Alexis Pinturault of France by 0.02 and Hirscher by 0.06. "My season has not been easy," said Innerhofer, who sustained concussion earlier this season and recently had back problems.
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Swiss coach crash: Rescuers seek answers as Belgium mourns 28 killed in school ...
Belfast Telegraph
With an average age of 12, they were on their way back from a week's skiingholiday in Val d'Anniviers in the Valais Alps bordering France. One of the schoolgirls had written in a blog only days before that she found the trip "mega-cool".
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Vonn, Svindal win super-G globes
MSN Philippines News
US ski star Lindsey Vonn won her fourth World Cup trophy of the season with the super-G here Thursday, as Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal took the men's title for the third time in his career. Vonn, 27, who has taken the overall, downhill, ...
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Invermere's Ben Thomsen exceeds his best expectations on World Cup alpine ski tour
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Young Ben Thomsen began the World Cup alpine ski season with some modest goals. When you're racing downhills from start positions back in the 40s and 50s, that's wise. So back in October the 24-year-old from Invermere wrote that a top 15 ...
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European X Games Women's Ski Slopestyle Finals
Newschoolers
After the men kicked off European X Games in Tignes, France this morning with Slopestyle Elimination, at 1:30pm it was the ladies' turn with Women's SkiSlopestyle Finals. By the time practice started at Noon the sun had come over the mountain ...
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Club Med Serre Chevalier - this weekend - France - Ski Chat
... Lexiloo at 15/03/2012 13:25:23. the agent I use to book Club Med holidays has a cancellation - it's being offered for 2 people £600 each for this weekend - in Serre Chevalier. Message me if you are interested... Bargain.. only wish I could go ...
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Driving in France this year?? - France - Ski Chat
Mar 4, 2012 ... Driving in France this year??, France, Skiing and Snowboarding Chat and Discussion.
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French ski resorts make for the perfect winter break | iVillage UK
France is one of the most popular destinations for Skiing. The borders of the country play host to a number of mountains and ranges, including the Alps. As a ...
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Skiing at La Plagne | Skiing Property
La Plagne is a French ski resort which is part of the Paradiski area, and nearby resorts include Les Arcs, Montchavin-Les Coches and Peisey-Vallandry. All in all ...
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Weirather tops US women in downhill ski training - FRANCE 24
Tina Weirather of Lichenstain gestures in the finish area at the Fis Alpine SkiWorld Cup final men's Downhill second training in Schladming. Weirather outshone ...
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Raw Video: Avalanche destroys ski lift in France - Yahoo!
Raw Video: Avalanche destroys ski lift in France. 33 minutes ago - AP 0:57 | 0 views. An avalanche rolled through a ski resort in France on Sunday, demolishing ...
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Great Getaways: India, Turkey, Ibiza and Ski France - News ...
Coinciding with the release of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Kuoni has reduced the price of its 12-night "Classic Rajasthan" escorted tour to £1594 per person ...
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Huge Avalanche Destroys Chairlift in France with People Still on It ...
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Euro Winter X 2012 Slopestyle Qualifiers | News - The Ski Channel
European Team Vacation: Germany, France, Switzerland · Montage Deer Valley: Luxury in Park City · Vintage Ski Photography Exhibition: Ray Atkeson, "Ski and ...
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Skiing the French Alps : Travel and Leisure | Travel Articles | Travel ...
The Haute Savoie, (high country) region of France is renowned for its architecture and spectacular mountain...
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Avalanche destroys ski lift in France (0:57) - The Washington Post
An avalanche rolled through a ski resort in France on Sunday, demolishing ski-lift pylons. There have been no reports of injury so far, but several skiers were left ...
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As prices tumble like snowflakes, skiers urged to grab late snow ...
MERIBEL, FRANCE : Departing on 24th March Directski.com has a week's skiholiday in the French resort of Brides le Bains, with access to Meribel and the 3 ...
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