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RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Oct 20, 2011

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The US National Team received the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award.
ladies-skijumping.com
In April 2011, the International Olympic Committee added a women's ski jumping event to the Olympic Winter Games program beginning in 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Skijumping (and Nordic Combined) have been the only disciplines in the Winter Games to exclude ...
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Ski Affair to honor women ski jumpers
Salt Lake Tribune
Women's Ski Jumping USA was a driving force behind the International Olympic Committee's decision in April to include the sport in the Olympics for the first time at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Guided by former Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee ...
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PRESS DIGEST - Russia - Oct 14
Reuters
Russian State bank VEB will invest 10.2 billion roubles ($326.3 million) in building a ski resort inRussia's restive region of Chechnya, the paper writes. - Russia's lower house of parliament is going to cut and merge its committees in order to ...
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Women ski jumpers to be honored in NYC
Park Record
The team, which was finally notified in April that women's ski jumping would be included as an official Olympic Winter sport (normal hill) at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, will be presented with the 2011 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award. ...
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Former Austrian skier Lanzinger eyes 2014 Paralympics start after leg amputation
Winnipeg Free Press
... to compete at the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. The 30-year-old Lanzinger said Wednesday he will return to competitive skiing in November at the Europa Cup circuit for disabled athletes, and ultimately will try to qualify for the Paralympics. ...
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America's Female Ski Jumpers Honored for Their Courage
Utah Ski And Snowboard
After years of the team's perseverance, in April the International Olympic Committee added a women's ski jumping event (normal hill) to the Olympic Winter Games program beginning in Sochi,Russia in 2014. The Wilma Rudolph Courage Award is presented to ...
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Summer snow stored under sawdust jumpstarts Kershaw's cross-country season
Winnipeg Free Press
It's too early for snow, but the Nordic Centre stored piles of it under sawdust over the summer to bring out and groom into almost two kilometres of ski-able trail in mid-October. Kershaw and Alex Harvey won a gold medal in the team sprint in Oslo, ...
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Estonia – a land of opportunity
RCI Ventures
In January 2011 some 29500 Russian tourists stayed at hotels in Estonia, 55 per cent more than in the same period the previous year, which was three times as many as in 2008. The Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships, the biggest-ever ...
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RCI Ventures
Last thing Chemmy remembers before crash is realising skier in front of her ...
Daily Mail
The blonde bombshell was on track for another successful ski season. But what happened next - and what Chemmy doesn't remember - is that one false move during a jump meant she smashed into the slope with such impact that it shattered her right leg. ...
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Daily Mail
Alex sets her sights on Winter Olympics
Deeside Today
Alex travelled to New Zealand with several members of the GB Alpine Ski Team, including fellow Gordon Skier Jo Morrison from Glassel, to train and compete in the New Zealand National Championships and the Australia-New Zealand Cup. ...
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Deeside Today
Montreal company signs sponsorship deal with Alpine Canada
Global Montreal
A Montreal based mining company has signed on as a major sponsor of Canada's alpine skiingteam. Osisko Mining Corp signed a four year sponsorship deal with Alpine Canada to support the team leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. ...
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For resort, overseas hopes
Concord Monitor
Ragged Mountain Resort's main lodge stands in distance of the Spear Mountain Triple Chair ski lifton Thursday, October 13. Ragged Mountain was recently approved for the EB-5 Program. The resort is expected to raise at least $35 million in new ...
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Judging set for 2014 Olympics
ESPN
Sundequist, whose judging roots are in freestyle skiing, is one of eight snowboarding judges who have been tabbed to work the 2013 World Championships in Canada. These eight judges are also slated to judge the 2014 Winter Games in Russia, ...
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ESPN
Own the Podium coming through for new sports
Pique newsmagazine
Back in April, the IOC approved the addition of ski halfpipe to the 2014 program, as well as women's ski jumping, a team figure skating event, a luge team event and a biathlon team event. In July, the IOC approved the addition of slopestyle for both ...
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Cash award for Olympic hopeful Violet
Melton Today
Ski-ing is an expensive sport and every penny helps. “I am concentrating on going to the Winter Olympics in 2014 in Russia, so this money will help me to train to become the best athlete I can be.” Violet will join the winners from nine other UK ...
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Melton Today
Bulgarian tourism marches confidently out of the crisis
Sofia Echo
Statistics show that the country's main income is from sea tourism, with ski tourism coming next in the rankings. The biggest increase was registered in the number of foreign visits from Russia, Ukraine and Central Europe. Bulgaria was able to benefit ...
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Sofia Echo
Ahmed Bilalov creates Azerbaijani-Russian tourist cluster
Azerbaijan Business Center
OJSC North Caucasus Resorts is the operator of the project on creation of a tourism cluster in southern Russia. In accordance with the Russian government's decree the Company is working on the construction of five new world-class ski resorts. ...
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Azerbaijan Business Center
USOC Selects Telemark Resort as Site of 2012 IPC Cross Country and Biathlon ...
Cross Country Skier
... will be held in 2014 in Sochi, Russia. CXC will work as the local organizer in conjunction with John Farra, the USOC's Director of US Paralympics Nordicskiing/high performance. Farra is particularly excited about the event being held at Telemark. ...
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Cross Country Skier
Transatlantic Missile Defense: Phase II and the Lead Up to the NATO Chicago Summit
US Department of State (press release)
On September 13, Secretary Clinton and Romanian Foreign Minister Baconschi (Ba-con-ski) signed a Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement for Phase 2. Once ratified by the Romanian Parliament, this agreement will allow the United States to build a ...
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Performance upgrades lead R&D efforts in sports apparel line
Global Sources
Warmth retention and water resistance are emphasized in ski jackets. Materials employed for the shell usually have an acrylic or PU coating. The water resistance level ranges from 3000 to 20000mm. Zippers that help prevent liquids from seeping in are ...
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Global Sources
Life after No. 11325
Polson Lake County Leader
They ate at the restaurant; outside other young people were skiing. On other dates they boated in the mountain lakes. “Sometimes we don't know what the other is saying,” Schlaile recalled of the broken German-Russian-English the pair would fumble ...
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Emerson Network Power's Avocent HMX, AMX Technology Offer Tools to Fight ...
TMC Net
By Carrie Schmelkin It may seem like a bad dream: A burglar donning a ski mask breaks into your office not to steal your money, but to steal your intellectual property located on your computer. Unfortunately, intellectual property theft is becoming a ...
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Andy Murray overtakes Roger Federer – Mondays with Bob Greene
World Tennis Magazine
At Linz, she was joined in a mixed doubles exhibition match by former world number one Thomas Muster, former Austrian number one Barbara Schett and retired ski-jumper Andreas Goldberger. Bammer's career was remarkable in that she played her best tennis ...
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World Tennis Magazine
huge savings on holidays at tnt sun amp snow travel show
TNT Magazine
The show, in Westminster on Saturday, will offer huge savings on winter sun and skidestinations to all who attend. In addition, travel experts will be doling out tips, including Laura Lindsay from Lonely Planet. Lindsay will tell attendees where to go ...
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TNT Magazine
Azerbaijani delegation arrives in Dagestan to explore the tourism development ...
Republican Information Agency
Let us remind that the OJSC "Resorts of the Northern Caucasus" is the operator of the project on creation of the tourism cluster in southern Russia. In accordance with the Government RF the company is constructing five new world-class ski resorts ...
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Heather Mills Rents Out Country Estate
Showbiz Spy
The 43-year-old blonde– who lost her left leg below the knee in when she was hit by a police motorcycle in 1993 — is currently in training to try and get a spot on the Great Britain Ski team for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Russia and is ...
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Showbiz Spy
Olympic champion Jasey Jay Anderson comes out of retirement, back on snowboard
Winnipeg Free Press
Roland Fischnaller and Aaron March made it a one-two finish for Italy at Landgraaf's SnowWorld, which is billed as the world's largest indoor ski facility. Andreas Prommegger of Austria was third. Darren Gardner of Burlington, Ont., ...
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Did Hitler and Eva Braun flee Berlin and die (divorced) of old age in Argentina?
Daily Mail
He said Hitler and Braun fled to Argentine shores aboard a submarine and lived for many years in the vicinity of San Carlos de Bariloche, a tourist site and ski haven some 1000 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. In his book Bariloche Nazi-Guía Turística ...
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Daily Mail
Injury jolts Rotorua hopeful
The Daily Post
It has meant Hannah, who loves to get out and ski whenever she can, has had to stay away from theskis for a month. She still has another three weeks before she can get back on the water. Hannah said the rehab had been frustrating but it hadn't stopped ...
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Filled Black Candles - MTD, MTG, MTH, MTL, MTN
Retirement Planning
The Company's Mountain segment owns and operates five ski resort properties, as well as ancillary businesses, including ski school, dining and retail/rental operations, which provide a resort experience to the clients. The Company's Lodging segment ...
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EU to takeover former Yugoslavia
Pravda
The Slovenes have developed industry and agriculture, beautiful ski and sea resorts. In addition, the percentage of ethnic minorities there is substantially below 10 percent. Next in line was Croatia. Being (same as Slovenia), a predominantly Catholic ...
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Russian ski jumper Pavel Karelin died in a car crash - Ski jumping ...
The ski jumping-world mourns the death of Pavel Karelin. The 21-year-old Russian died in a car accident in Russia.The accident happened at about 4:00 am ne ...
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