Freestyle Skiing News

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Waterville Valley this morning. So close and yet so far. Ground zero for the meeting is the Snowy Owl Inn .

" Bronwyn Pasloski practises Tuesday afternoon at the Canada Games Centre. Pasloski won a bronze medal in the 100 metre breast stroke at the Canada Cup in Toronto this past weekend.

Luke Donovan is no stranger to a challenge. While training for the 2005 New Brunswick Canada Games freestyle ski team, Donovan suffered a spinal chord injury that abruptly ended his freestyle career.

Oh, those wily cross-country folks at the Grand Mesa Nordic Council. Not only do they openly push the start of winter, they do so with vast amounts of celebration, ski races and a free Nordic ski demo day at the Skyway Trailhead on Grand Mesa.

" Janelle Greer skate-skis towards the finish line at the ski stadium at Mt. McIntyre on Saturday at the Don Sumanik Memorial Free Technique Race.Ski The Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club got their first race of the season underway this weekend, after the first of the two Don Sumanik Memorial Races.

The weekend's Nordic sking at the Ruka resort in Kuusamo proved to be a triumphant return for the former Nordic Combined World Cup winner Hannu Manninen , who retired from the sport in May 2008.

As the economy lurches toward recovery, northern New England's ski industry is viewing the upcoming season with optimism, saying the amount of snow nature sends the region is a much bigger factor in determining how well the ski areas fare.

Sometimes the best teachers simply must show their students how it is done. Anchorage's Holly Brooks did exactly that Friday in the second SuperTour cross-country ski race of the season Friday at West Yellowstone, Mont., topping 87 athletes -- including seven of the skiers she coaches at the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center -- to win the ...

Ski resorts across the country are using the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.

" A family keeps together while participating in the 2008 Don Sumanik Memorial Cross Country Ski Race.

Audi kicks off the third year of its partnership with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association this weekend in the 2009 Aspen Winternational, the women's Alpine World Cup event in Colorado.

The Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club is tackling concussion research head-on. The organization is partnering with Aspen Orthopaedic Associates this winter to conduct a study on the effects of concussions on young skiers and snowboarders.

Swedish and Italian skiers were the big winners in the cross-country competition at Pragelato Plan, while recent powers Norway failed to win a gold medal in a single event for the first time since 1988.

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Seeing Squaw Valley in the fall, coated with the merest dusting of snow, is like glimpsing a starlet not quite made up and fully powdered, not quite red carpet-ready. Still gorgeous.

A giant of New Brunswick sport and the pride of the coastal town of Shediac made his way to centre stage once more on Monday as the Olympic torch arrived in New Brunswick, its eighth province on this cross-Canada, 45,000-kilometre journey.

Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park, 28 miles north of downtown Spokane, offers 2,000 vertical feet on 1,425 acres of skiing, boarding and tubing terrain.

Winter snowfall in Western Montana creates a festive backdrop for sleigh rides. Each winter, the snow gods bless Western Montana ski hills with hundreds of inches of snow, creating a winter wonderland with plenty of fresh powder.

Cross-country skier Ben Koons is the second athlete to have met the Winter Olympics "A qualification" standard for February's games in Vancouver, Canada, after competition in Finland this week.