The Verbier Ride 06, presented by www.peakperformance.com and run in association with www.gizmondo.com, is running this year from the 18th - 24th February. The events kick of on Saturday 18th with the worlds top freeskiers arriving in the ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland. Thereafter the event schedule is:
Sunday 19th: Big Mountain Qualifications
Monday […]
Austria’s Michael Walchhofer won the Hahnenkamm downhill on the Streif for the first time ever, beating Switzerland’s Marco Buechel by 0.05 seconds, while USA’s Daron Rahlves finished third.
Finlay Mickel 25th
After last week’s career best 10th on Wengen’s Lauberhorn, Finlay Mickel continued to make improvements on his past performances as he skied to a very respectable […]
Britain’s top downhill ski racer Finlay Mickel may have the challenge of Kitzbuhel’s Hahnenkamm Downhill to contend with this weekend in Austria, but next week the Scot will enjoy a pleasing reminder of the importance and magnitude of the Olympic Winter Games when he carries the Olympic Flame through Bolzano in the heart of Italy’s […]
Three separate incidents, and four avalanches, claimed the lives of five skiers and left two badly injured today.
Two young Belgians died in a huge slide in the Combes des Lanchettes above Villaroger (part of the Les Arcs ski area ). This tragedy is particularly poignant as it was in the same couloir in which […]
