RUSSIA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Jan 19, 2012

PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia PlanetSKI.eu If one believes all the hype Russia could be the next big skidestination. It has the 2014 Winter Olympics but that is just the start of things. Five completely new ski areas are being built at a cost of £15b. It is the largest ski project the world ... See all stories on this topic » PlanetSKI.eu

Warm weather has hurt snowsport retail sales The Boston Globe Burke was a favorite to medal in the sport's Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia in 2014. Lindsey Vonn, who at 28 has become perhaps the most famous skiracer in the world, inspires plenty of talk about how far her career can go. ButSKI magazine has raised ... See all stories on this topic »

Are You Smarter Than a Day Shifter 1-19-12 WAAF.com Clara watchers have gotten so he can go skiing. -- ski season for people so far hasn't even been called up a lot of times the makes no but. Wanna get -- the watches it they have great snow great skiing call now 6179311. Area. 6179311. Area. ... See all stories on this topic »

Paralympic Event Comes to Theodore Wirth Park Patch.com Many of the athletes competing in the upcoming events are working towards the Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia two years from now. “We are really excited for the public to see these athletes in action,” Farra said. Before the skiers can hit the course ... See all stories on this topic »

Kingsbury undefeated in moguls Pique newsmagazine by Andrew Mitchell While the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team seems to be able to win medals anywhere, it was nice for athletes to compete at home before thousands of fans, family and friends at Mont Gabriel, Quebec this past weekend —even if it was minus... See all stories on this topic » Pique newsmagazine

Orthodox Epiphany Toronto Star Witches ski the Alps Thousands of skiers turned out in Belalp, Switzerland on Saturday for a strange annual tradition — s... Italian cruise ship disaster Survivors who escaped a luxury cruise ship that ran aground and tipped over recounted a scene ... See all stories on this topic »

Where are they now? Cohee kicks off final NCAA campaign with win The Record-Courier ... Ski Education Foundation, Cohee is hoping to secure a spot on the national team for the 2012-13 season, challenging a dozen other top athletes who will be looking to land a selection to the 2014 Olympic Team heading to Russia for the Winter Olymics ... See all stories on this topic »

PyeongChang: birthplace of yellow dried pollack Korea Times These days when PyeongChang and other nearby areas receive heavy snowfall, skiers and snowboarders are the main group of visitors flocking to Alpensia, Yongpyong and other ski resorts located in the 2018 Olympics site. Besides a range of winter sports... See all stories on this topic » Korea Times

YOUTH OLYMPICS: New winter sports debut ahead of Sochi Pakistan Daily Times Even before women's ski jumping, halfpipe freestyle and snowboard slopestyle were included in the programme for the next Winter Olympics in Russia, Innsbruck had been given the greenlight to host these events, he said. And this was paying off, ... See all stories on this topic »

Canadian Harden looks for redemption in Biathlon Mixed Relay event Boxscore News HARDEN will compete alongside Canadian teammates Sarah BEAUDRY, Aidan MILLAR and Danielle VRIELINK, who is a member of the same Ski club as HARDEN back in Canada, the Rocky Mountain Racers. Coach Lindsay has also been impressed by the improvement in ... See all stories on this topic » Boxscore News

THE WAR ON IRAN: Nuclear Assassinations Just the Tip of the Iceberg Center for Research on Globalization They were wearing ski masks -- black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as if they had something in their hands,” this is how a female witness described the scene of the assassination of Iranian ... See all stories on this topic » Center for Research on Globalization

David Duprey/AP Toronto Star Witches ski the Alps Thousands of skiers turned out in Belalp, Switzerland on Saturday for a strange annual tradition — s... Italian cruise ship disaster Survivors who escaped a luxury cruise ship that ran aground and tipped over recounted a scene ... See all stories on this topic »

Pivotal year for Poland's sports stars Warsaw Business Journal Cross-country skier Justyna Kowalczyk is now one of the most decorated Polish athletes of all time, after capturing the 2011/2012 Tour de Ski title earlier this January. This was the third time in a row that Ms Kowalczyk had won cross-country skiing's ... See all stories on this topic »

109th Airlift Wing Members Who Assisted in Rescue of Burned Sailors Will Be ... ReadMedia (press release) An LC-130 Hercules "Ski Bird" aircraft belonging to the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing evacuated seven badly burned crew members of a South Korean flagged ship from the United States McMurdo Station in Antarctica to Christchurch, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile Doctors Group Plc : Mobile Doctors Support Olympic Hopeful 4-traders (press release) She had a strong finish to the 2011 season with a season's best 14th in the World Cup, Grindelwald, Switzerland. This year she wants to consistently place in the world's top 10 for ski cross and in 2014 compete in the Olympic Winter Games in Russia. ... See all stories on this topic »

Chemmy Alcott eyes Winter Olympics Hertfordshire Mercury I want to do Russia in 2014. "This is the best preparation. The fitness and the feeling you get on the ice - if I can do this on a tiny blade then hopefully I can transfer it to a wide ski." Despite the risk of further injury while competing in ... See all stories on this topic » Hertfordshire Mercury

Trail mix: With snow in the forecast, winter may finally get here Clovis Independent Using a device called a sit-ski, 33-year-old Grant Korgan of Incline Village traveled about 75 miles in sub-zero temperatures over two weeks. Clovis native Mike Libecki, an internationally known rock climber and adventurer, is one of this year's ... See all stories on this topic »

Scott Brown: Im not a rock thrower Politico Brown's survival strategy has taken him to all corners of the state, where he drops into mom and pop shops, Boys and Girls clubs,ski resorts and even Democratic bastions, like an American Legion post in nearby Mattapan packed with middle-class ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

RUSSIAN TOURISTS AT SKI RESORTS ... - Tourism-Review Russian tourists appear to be quite reckless regarding skiing safety. www.tourism-review.com/russian-tourists-at-ski-resorts-reckles...

Ski Resort Rosa Khutor In Sochi | English Russia Check out photographs of a ski resort Rosa Khutor, Sochi. ... was posted in Photos, Russian Nature, Sports and tagged mountains, ski resort, skiing, snow, sochi. ... englishrussia.com/2012/01/08/ski-resort-rosa-khutor-in-sochi/

PlanetSKI | News | PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia - This weekend we will be in Sochi. It hosts the Winter... Skiing sexism in Iran - Women in Iran are only able to ski if they have a ... www.planetski.eu/news/3442

From Whistler to Russia (and back): McCarthy's ski resort journey ... From Whistler to Russia (and back): McCarthy's ski resort journey. Museum Musings. January 12, 2012. Leah Batisse. It's a new year and that means it's time for ... www.whistlerquestion.com/.../from-whistler-to-russia-and-bac...

Japanese ski jumping gold: Voice of Russia Japan's Sara Takanashi has taken gold in the ski jumping event at the first ever Youth Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in Austria. Her silver and bronze runners-up ... english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/14/63856994.html

Russia-InfoCentre :: Funny Ski Holidays in Moscow Russian Epiphany tradition: would you dip into ice-cold water? Yes. No.Russia- IC / News Archive / Russian Travel and Transportation News / FunnySki ... russia-ic.com/news/show/13466

  

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