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TWO sporting superstars played a special celebrity ‘Top of Europe’ exhibition tennis match on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland recently.
But it’s fair to say that while top American ski racer Lindsey Vonn was more at home in the mountain environment, she was no match for her opponent on the other side of the net as it was tennis champion Roger Fererer.
THE Ski Club of Great Britain’s hope that it would not be dragged into the ski hosting/leading dispute in France appears to have been dashed following the release of a recent statement by the Wimbledon-based organisation.France fired its first shot over the club’s bows in April this year when a Ski Club Leader was stopped on the piste in Val d’Isere and questioned by gendarmes in relation to Art.L.212-1 of the French Code du Sport.
SCHOOL holiday periods for next winter are already booking up quickly according to UK tour operators.
A key reason appears to be the much publicised stepping-up of the fines system for parents taking children out of school in England during term time.
A 26-YEAR-OLD snowboarder died as a result of being trapped for 45 minutes under a snow drift, an inquest heard recently.
Emily Watts, from the village of Lavenham in Suffolk was snowboarding in the French area of Chamonix on 8 December 2012.
SOUTH Korea’s largest environmental group, Green Korea, is attempting to halt construction of the Olympic downhill course on Mt. Gaiwang, according to the Korea Times.
The group is urging the PyeongChang Winter Olympics organising committee to use an existing run instead.
SUPERSTAR Robbie Williams brought the Tirolean ski resort of Ischgl to a sensational close at the beginning of May with a mountain-top concert at 2,300m.
His open-air performance got 25,000 fans singing and dancing in the snow with songs from his Swings Both Ways album, interspersed with top crowd pleasers such as Let Me Entertain You and Angels.