Ski Sunday ...

I record all teh skiing on eurosports HD as its normally a tad early to get up to watch it. Since trying slalom this year i tend to watch it a bit now, but you can't beat the gold old DH! Looking forward to beaver creek in a few weeks, love the courses with big jumps!

Eurosport gets my vote for the live coverage with GS & DH being the most exciting. I think the Stelvio piste in Bormio the most challenging on the DH circuit.
The BBC did a series with Roger Black the Olympic 400m runner & co presenter Konrad Bartelski quite a few years ago now, they travelled to all of the worlds best ski stations and basically had a blast. Definetly one of the most down to earth skiing programmes I have seen. The Beeb could repeat that show for us!
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Finn

Bring it on, for me it's the start of the season :D

Re post of Linky to BBC Page with timings and Red Button stuff. Should start with Mens SuperG from Val d'Isere on 12th December.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/8366920.stm

Found this from Ed Drake (The snowboarder on High Altitude)

http://www.snowboardclub.co.uk/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-36384-postdays-0-postorder-asc.html

"Sadly the show has been canned, a new controller stepped in for BBC2 in May and coming from BBC4 we were seen as bit laddy and low brow for her, plus in her defence there are hundreds of shows waiting for their shot all the time and she went with last in, first out.

On the up side there will be a two one offs, one I watched yesterday that would have been the first episode of this winters series (because of the Olympics we needed to get going early) but then got canned so it's now a stand alone called Arctic Man, Go Fast or Go Home and I'm pretty pleased with that.

The other one is a much more 'high brow' exploration of British Columbia as a back ground build up to the Olympics, I think in a bid to show the new controller we can do mature. Should be interesting...

Obviously I'm gutted, it was the dream job, but at the same time I still feel very lucky to have shot one episode let alone a whole series.

And to clear up the debate about the series and the Ski Sunday pieces you are both right. It was the first series of High Altitude, but in a bid to trail the series and get it out there they re-cut all the films I had made for Ski Sunday the year before and put them out as ten minute shorts under the High Altitude banner.

Thanks for the support and sorry it's not better news. On the upside if you've seen any of the NZ Open pipe footage you'll know that the prospect of the Olympics is pant wettingly exciting.

Cheers

Ed "

no_snow_in_swindon wrote:Found this from Ed Drake (The snowboarder on High Altitude)

Be sure to let Ed LEIGH know :oops:

freezywater wrote:

no_snow_in_swindon wrote:Found this from Ed Drake (The snowboarder on High Altitude)

Be sure to let Ed LEIGH know :oops:

lol. Oh yeah. Had a blonde moment there! :oops:

Tony H - I think the 'Irishman' you are referring to is Scotsman John Clark, former racer, speed skier and international coach. However, knowledgeable as he must be, he hasn't got a clue when to keep quiet!

The wintersports forum on the Eurosport website is full of comments asking that he please, please, please puts a sock in it!