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Tour de France enters last week a tour rider in lavender fields of provence

Tour de France enters last week

Yet more drama in the 2016 Tour as week three begins

So far we've seen not only some fantastic racing, stunning scenery and nail-biting sprints from the 2016 Tour de France, but we've witnessed several unusual crashes, the yellow jersey literally running up Mont Ventoux and more than one incident of an over-enthusiastic fan causing disruption.

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Urban Roof 'n' Slopestyle Video, Avoriaz 2008

Urban Roof 'n' Slopestyle Video, Avoriaz 2008

The first roof and slopestyle in Avoriaz.

Location
Avoriaz

The Urban Roof n’ Slopestyle is a new concept in freestyle mountain biking. A competition inspired by freestyle snowboarding events that take place in Avoriaz in the winter, it takes dirt and freeride mountain biking and mixes them with parcours to create a new style of street riding.

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Ski racing world cup end of Season roundup 2017 a ski racer in action

Ski racing world cup end of Season roundup 2017

Another great year of ski race action comes to an end

February was dominated by the Alpine Skiing World Championships, held every second year, which kicked off in St Moritz on 6th February. Over 13 days, 589 athletes from 76 countries competed in eleven competitions in front of 165,000 spectators.

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Avoriaz Event Review: 9th November 2012 Happy chilly times at The Relentless Freeze Festival

Avoriaz Event Review: 9th November 2012

Warming up for the winter ski season in London

The Relentless Freeze Festival did exactly what it said on the tin and those not wearing their ski jackets could be found with teeth chattering, huddled around the vin chaud stand wrapping themselves in a fruity alcoholic blanket.

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Le Tour 2016 - the story so far a cyclist in the yellow jersey of the tour de france

Le Tour 2016 - the story so far

7 days in & it's already produced some spectacular results

Le Tour de France 2016 kicked off last Saturday with stage one and the 'Grand Depart' being hosted by the stunning island community of Le Mont Saint Michel.

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Murray Buchan Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Murray Buchan Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

One Team to Sochi Murray Buchan

Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.

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La Fete de la Musique Video, France

La Fete de la Musique Video, France

French mid-summer celebrations

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.

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Sun:Sets at the Kinkerne 2016 Sun:Sets at the Kinkerne 2016

Sun:Sets at the Kinkerne 2016

Dancing in the snow, DJ's & fire eaters

As the sun went down, the snow fell and it made for an amazing evening at The Kinkerne!

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Klaxons Open Rock the Pistes in Avoriaz Klaxons Rock the Pistes

Klaxons Open Rock the Pistes in Avoriaz

The First Gig of the 2014 Rock the Pistes in Avoriaz

The Klaxons opened the 2014 Rock the Pistes Festival yesterday afternoon in Avoriaz. The band were the first act in the line up which this year includes Mad Professor and Lee Scratch Perry and Babyshambles.

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1st Edition of Crankworx Les Gets a biker jumping through the air

1st Edition of Crankworx Les Gets

The biggest MTB festival in its new European home

Crankworx found a new European home this summer, moving from Les 2 Alpes to Les Gets, where it will stay for at least the next three years and what a success it's been...

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Switch it up a gear for TDF 2016 tdf pic of peter sagan in green jersey

Switch it up a gear for TDF 2016

A look at who's who in this years Tour de France

July brings with it all sorts of sporting events. This year we have the EURO 2016 hosted in France at the start of the month, the annual tennis tournamant at Wimbledon and Formula 1 action at Silverstone, Budapest and Hockenheim.

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The Cavern 24-7 Film Festival 2015 Review a man breathing fire in front of another man

The Cavern 24-7 Film Festival 2015 Review

A round up of this years film festival

For the 8th year running, the madness and chaos of the Cavern 24-7 Film Festival descended on Morzine in March. Pirates, reprobates and fire-breathing snowboarders were spotted flying down the slopes in Avoriaz, swinging off bridges in Morzine Town Centre and causing a scene in a bar near you.

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Mont Blanc Rally Video, Avoriaz 2009

Mont Blanc Rally Video, Avoriaz 2009

The Mont Blanc Rally 2009

Location
Morzine

For petrol heads in the Alps the Mont Blanc Rally is one of the big events of the summer.

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