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Countdown to Crankworx with Wyn Masters a mountain biker in a baseball cap

Countdown to Crankworx with Wyn Masters

With less than 2 weeks to go the star of Wyn TV tells us what to expect

Since it first began in Whistler in 2004 Crankworx has grown to be one of the biggest events in the mountain bike calendar, with extra dates added in Rotorua, New Zealand and France.

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The Grande Odyssee Video, Avoriaz 2008

Europes largest husky dog race in the Portes du Soleil.

Through the Savoie and the Haute Savoie, husky-dog mushers from the twelve or so different countries worldwide will be competing during a 2-week effort race over 1,000 km and over 25,000 m of cumulated positive difference in altitude.

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Rock the Pistes Programme 2017 a man with his arms crossed

Rock the Pistes Programme 2017

The return of the free music festival on the slopes

Rock The Pistes 2017 has returned to the Portes Du Soleil.

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Highlights of the 2011 London Freeze

Highlights of the 2011 London Freeze

Highlights from London freeze and a chat with James Woods

The London Freeze is the ski and snowboard event that brings together international live music acts and some of the world's best riders. The two day festival is the last weekend in October and in 2011 we caught up with X-Games medalist James Wooods for a chat about his Olympic hopes.

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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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Urban Roof 'n' Slopestyle Video, Avoriaz 2008

Urban Roof 'n' Slopestyle Video, Avoriaz 2008

The first roof and slopestyle in Avoriaz.

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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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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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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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Fred Syversen: Professional Skier With World Record for Highest Cliff Jump an image of fred syversen skiing in chamonix

Fred Syversen: Professional Skier With World Record for Highest Cliff Jump

An insider's guide to life as a pro skier, freeskiing in Chamonix and who to look out for in the 2013 Freeride World Tour

As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.

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Shreddie Feature Jam Video

Shreddie Feature Jam Video

Many were cold, but few were frozen

The second Shreddie Feature Jam took place on Wednesday 6th February in snowy conditions. Riders took to three modules in the Burton Stash in Avoriaz in a jam session format. All the tricks were filmed by Stew Monk from Reelfun Media and the video is now live.

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Mont Blanc Rally Video, Avoriaz 2009

Mont Blanc Rally Video, Avoriaz 2009

The Mont Blanc Rally 2009

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Morzine

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

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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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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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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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