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RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Sep 29, 2011



Jallen selected to Paralympic Ski team
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
“This is a great honor,” Stephanie commented, “and a huge step towards my goal of qualifying to represent the United States in the International Paralympics in Sochi,Russia, in 2014. I am extremely grateful to so many wonderful people who have helped...
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Leap of faith
ESPN
... this past spring Van finally heard the words she'd been after for the better part of the past decade: Women's ski jumping on the normal hill (ie, the long-distance jump) will be included for the first time in the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. ...
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ESPN
Ski jumping: Summer practice gives ski jumpers chance to perfect sport
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
He will graduate high school in the spring and will train with the hopes of making Team USA for the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi, Russia. "Between graduation and 2014, that's what I'm working towards," Wallace said. "I've been jumping for 10 years and ...
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Couple to coach British Disabled Ski Team
CottageCountryNow.ca
With their sights already set squarely on the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, to be held in Sochi,Russia in 2014, the Milford Bay couple has been hired to head up the British Disabled Ski Team and its World Cup and Continental Cup Paralympic crew, ...
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Property At France's Luxury Ski Resorts Is Getting Really Expensive
Business Insider
They are also replacing buyers from Russia and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ie former members of the Soviet Union. Interestingly demand for skiproperties is also becoming less seasonal. Summer tourism has driven up incomes for second ...
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Business Insider
FSC Water Skiers Ready For Regionals on Saturday
The Ledger
Costard is ranked 10th in the world overall and finished sixth in IWWF World Water SkiChampionships in Russia during the summer. McClure won the reigning women's overall title in the AWSA National Championships. "There are no outstanding guys," Skalko ...
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Jess McMillan: 100 percent back
ESPN
... Russia, stop of the Freeride World Tour. If you've looked at the results of a big mountain contest in the last five years, you've probably come across Jess McMillan's name. Arguably the queen of competitive big mountain skiing, the Jackson Hole ...
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ESPN
New agreement will increase competition over flight routes between Finland and ...
Helsingin Sanomat
The new agreement makes it easier, for example, to open air routes from Russia to Kajaani (for the Vuokatti resort) and Kittilä (for Levi and Ylläs) during the ski season. Under the old agreement only two to three carriers had such a possibility. ...
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Pa. parents guilty in death of adopted Russian boy
Las Vegas Sun
AP There's little debate that pint-sized Nathaniel Craver suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, attachment disorders and regular injuries after he was adopted from Russia by a Pennsylvania couple. His parents say they took him to a stream of doctors ...
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Honorable mentions
Foster's Daily Democrat
ROCHESTER — On September 20, the New England Language Center of Rochester learned that a recent graduate of its "Future Leaders of Russia" program has been named to the Russian OlympicSki Team for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia. ...
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It's all about power
Daily Pioneer
In Russia he's long garnered headlines as the country's most eligible bachelor, an amateur athlete who posts videos of his jet-ski stunts on YouTube, and the somewhat quixotic promoter of electric cars. Many experts predicted trouble when he took over ...
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Guild of Builders of the NCFD intends to construct ski resorts in Southern Russia
Republican Information Agency
Let us remind within the framework of the North Caucasian tourism cluster development program designed for 2011-2020, five new world-class ski resorts stipulating creation of more than 330 thousand jobs in the region will be constructed. The Russian ...
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Judge Rob Junell to talk at Concho Resources brown bag luncheon at Sibley
My West Texas
During ski season he serves on the Ski Apache ski patrol on weekends. Judge Junell has three mountains he hopes to climb in the future: Mount Elbrus in Russia, Mount Ararat in Turkey and the famed Aconcagua in Argentina. His role model is Dave Hahn of ...
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Tears as 'Mohammed relic' brought to Chechnya
AFP
Baisarov owns major stakes in Russia's top copper and coal companies and has promised to finance the development of a ski resort in Chechnya planned by the Chechen President. Kadyrov, who has ruled the war-torn region since 2007 and was reappointed in ...
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AFP
Journey's end: Danish kayaker arrives in Virolahti, close to Russian border
Helsingin Sanomat
Over the winter he plans to give lectures and to write a book on his voyage. He's not done yet, either. Next year, Jørgensen plans to set off on a new canoe trip. In 2013, he intends to ski across Northern Greenland.
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Sports briefs
Pique newsmagazine
The company, based in Ajax, Ontario, will support alpine, para-alpine and ski cross programs through 2014 - the year of the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The new partnership was effective immediately. "We are delighted to partner with Audi Canada," ...
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Columbia Sportswear Strikes Partnership with U.S. Freestyle Ski Team
Sporting Goods Intelligence (subscription)
Columbia is named the official outerwear provider to the US Freestyle Ski Team through the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, covering outerwear, base layer and hats. The company sees the USSA relationship as providing a global marketing ...
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Japan's noisy neighbors keep-a knocking
The Japan Times
"The only way for Japan to achieve naval parity with China is to construct a carrier that is superior to China's," the general writes, adding that unlike the "ski jump" deck utilized by the Chinese carrier, a Japanese carrier should adopt the same ...
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CHAOS Headwear Welcomes Two New Pro Riders
Transworld Business
The year after he graduates from high school, he's hoping he'll make a visit to Sochi, Russia, to represent the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Sponsors: Penn skis on Armada, and wears their gear, and is also sponsored by SureFoot, ...
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From the Bike Barn to Belgium
The Snapper
Haggerty works at the Era Ski and Bike Shop on Flory Mill Road in Lancaster. Skiingis another one of his hobbies. Although he has not decided whether he will make his job as a race mechanic for the US Cycling team a lifelong career, he loves the fun ...
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The Snapper
Simon Hick's View from the Frontline: the greening of New Zealand
The Score
They're creating a scene that's never really existed at Irish sporting events before, a mix of Maracana, Mardi Gras and apres-ski. They're younger, on average, than what you'd find in Lansdowne or Croke Park or Semple Stadium, a little more tipsy, ...
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The Inner Challenge: From overcoming cancer, to beating Lyme disease, to ...
Lewiston Sun Journal
Prior to his diagnosis and treatment, Bement was an accomplished swimmer and member of the national ski patrol. He typically bicycled 1000 miles a year, participated in the American Lung Association's three-day 180-mile Trek Across Maine, ...
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Lewiston Sun Journal
China's almost-carrier
Hurriyet Daily News
The Chinese carrier is a twice-orphaned, quarter-century-old relic of obsolete design, with a ski-jump flight deck. Beijing's navy may have done a rouge and lipstick job on the old Varyag, fitting it out for the first time with engines and electronics, ...
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Hurriyet Daily News
Constitutional Democracy v. Unconstitutional Empire
Dissident Voice
They complained to me that they'd just heard and read about an announcement by the government of Ontario that an 80 million dollar destination ski and summer holiday resort would be built on Maple Mountain, the 2nd highest elevation in Ontario and the ...
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USA. SpeedDream taking the dream to the next level
BYM News (press release)
So some new thinking was applied, and with an eye toward the ski industry where slalom racing is extremely popular, a new SpeedDream SpeedWay was conceived. Instead of racing a traditional triangle with a hired gun at the helm, two SpeedDream27's will ...
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British law firm steps up fight against Europe's last dictator
The Independent (blog)
“They were wearing ski masks. My wife was also in the room. Two of them grabbed her because she immediately started screaming for help. I was put on the floor of a minivan and driven away.” Mr Neklyayev, who later needed treatment for a herniated disk ...
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Climb for Five Summits Mt. Rainier
PR Web (press release)
An American Mountain Guiding Association (AMGA) accredited guide service specializing in mountaineering expeditions, alpine climbing, trekking and ski touring programs, RMI is committed to leading exceptional mountain adventures. ...
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McAvoy Layne keeps the spirit of Mark Twain alive
Sacramento Bee
In 1975 I came over from Hawaii to Lake Tahoe to ski. I rented a cabin in Tahoma for five days. It snowed 5 feet the first night and I was trapped in the cabin. I thought it was the worst stroke of luck, but it turned out to be the best, because on the ...
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US porn industry goes underground comfortably
Pravda
The settlement will look like a ski resort. However, there will be special bunkers built underneath every house in the settlement. All of the bunkers will be interconnected with each other. "It will be possible to go there for holidays during the times ...
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Gormley's iron army invades Hermitage
RT
It featured 100 iron human figures standing tall in life size that were dispersed in the European ski resorts and installed in hard-to-access places. As far as hard-to-access places are concerned, the State Hermitage Museum is one of them. ...
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RT
Core77 Design Award 2011: Skatecycle, Notable for Transportation
Core77.com (blog)
The idea for the Skatecycle took concrete shape when I moved to New York from Los Angeles and immediately missed the easy access to ski resorts that he enjoyed out west. I wasn't happy working at my job at the time, and was excited enough about it to...
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Core77.com (blog)
Kearney heading back to the mountains
Concord Monitor
Kearney teamed up with a freestyle legend, 1998 Olympic aerials champion Eric Bergoust - a technical master of ski jumping, who is working with Kearney on new techniques as she tries to add a twist to the back flip that helped her win Olympic gold. ...
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Developer of Russia's Northern Caucasus Ski Resorts Seizes ...
Sochi, Russia - Moscow-based Northern Caucasus Resorts Company (NCRC), the state company responsible for developing the world's largest mountain skiing ...
www.firsttracksonline.com/.../developer-of-russias-northern-ca...
Greenpeace Russia and Environmental Watch warn against ski ...
Greenpeace Russia and Environmental Watch warn against ski resort development. September 20, 2011 15:35 | Editor. Environmental Watch on North ...
www.spectrezine.org/greenpeace-russia-and-environmental-wa...
Swissotel to Manage Ski Resort in Russia's Gorky-Gorod
Swissotel to Manage Ski Resort in Russia's Gorky-Gorod.
www.travelpulse.com/swissotel-to-manage-ski-resort-in-russias...
Viessmann FIS World Cup Cross-Country - Russian Sprint Coach ...
Earlier this month, the Russian Ski Federation made public that current men's sprint team coach, Yuri Kaminsky, was poised to become the next head coach of ...
www.fiscrosscountry.com/.../russian-sprint-coach-yuri-kamins...
Northern Caucasus Resorts :: Bloomberg: CDC, Others to Invest $1 ...
15:37 Moscow Time: Foreign investors lured by North Caucasian resort potential. 15:29 Bloomberg: CDC, Others to Invest $1 Billion in Russian Ski Resorts ...
www.ncrc.ru/e/news/index.php?id_4=226

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