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Skiing: Mielzynski pulls off slalom shock
Monday 05 March 2012
Former water-skier Erin Mielzynski caused a surprise yesterday, winning a World Cup slalom in Ofterschwang in a combined time of one minute 53.59 seconds. The 21-year-old Canadian had a previous best finish of 13th at this level. "I just skied on race day like I do in training," she said.
Peaks of perfection: Not able to slope off this year? Bring chalet chic home...
Sunday 12 February 2012
1. Purgatory colorado print
Traveller's guide: Late-season snow
Saturday 21 January 2012
Fancy some fun in the sun? The time to hit the slopes is as spring takes the edge off winter's chill, says Matt Barr
Skiing: Kostelic's third straight win equals Stenmark feat
Monday 16 January 2012
Ivica Kostelic proved the master of Wengen yet again yesterday, winning a World Cup slalom to close the gap on overall leader Marcel Hirscher.
Slopes with savoir faire: Val d'Isère still retains its centuries-old character
Saturday 31 December 2011
Polo, the ski-shop manager at Les Barmes de l'Ours, Val d'Isère's swankiest hotel, is the kind of fellow one finds only in winter-sports resorts and Bond movies: charming, cooler than cool, with an impressive air of worldliness for a man whose horizons are all jagged and snow capped.
Tory MP who attended Nazi stag night faces French inquiry
Friday 23 December 2011
David Cameron urged to remove whip from Aidan Burley as prosecutors consider charges
DVD: Deep End (15)
Friday 12 August 2011
A soundtrack by the German experimentalists Can, a cameo from Diana Dors as a sexual predator and a saucy Jane Asher all feature in this British oddity from 1970.
Harriet Walker: March yes, but that word you use is helping no one
Tuesday 10 May 2011
The word holds nothing for us but humiliation and subordination
Skiing: Whistleblower Cuche slates FIS over fine
Monday 14 March 2011
An emotional Didier Cuche of Switzerland criticised race officials after he won the World Cup super-G here in Norway yesterday, following the International Ski Federation's decision to fine the defending downhill champion for threatening a referee.
Skiing: Vonn completes weekend hat-trick
Monday 07 March 2011
Lindsey Vonn clinched her third discipline title in three days with a super-G victory in Tarvisio, Italy, yesterday to wrap up a good weekend for the American.
Skiing: Vonn vents her 'anger' in slalom to clinch super-combined crown
Saturday 05 March 2011
Lindsey Vonn won the super-combined World Cup title when she finished second in the season's final race in the discipline in Tarvisio, Italy, yesterday.
British student dies after ski chalet fall
Monday 28 February 2011
A British gap-year student fell to his death after attempting to leap between chalet rooftops in the French Alpine ski resort of Courchevel.
Skiing: Victorious Riesch edges past Vonn
Monday 28 February 2011
Maria Riesch of Germany beat Lindsey Vonn by one hundredth of a second to win a World Cup super-G race yesterday and extend her overall lead over her American rival.
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