Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB Park & Pipe Team
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
Read reviews of the best La Plagne events
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
The Festival International Sport Extreme (FISE) tours the country each summer bringing, skaters, bikers and boarders of all kinds to towns throughout France to demonstrate their skills and compete against each other.
As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.
Dom Harington is a Halfpipe Snowboarder from Leeds who has missed the last two Olympics due to injuries after winning the Europa Cup Halfpipe. Sochi is probably his last chance to be part of the Olympics and he's giving it everything he has.
On 1st April, La Plagne will host the world’s longest ever slalom race, the appropriately named Super Slalom. The open-format competition will feature some of the world’s best skiing talent toughing it out with amateur riders on a massive, specially commissioned course - approximately five times the length of a normal slalom course.
The first Super Slalom, the world’s longest ever slalom race, was held in La Plagne on Saturday attracting top skiers from across Europe.
Once again the American teenage upsets the order. Torin Yater-Wallace puts in another storming run in the pipe and proves that his X-Games success is no fluke.
Magical March is here. Enjoy some great skiing and lazy lunches in the sunshine.
Professional Skiers & Snowboarders put their bodies through alot. This episode looks at the injuries Freestyle Team GB have suffered and the road to recovery and the Olympics.
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.
With Saturday’s transfer woes a distant memory and the holiday crowds now safely snuggled up warm in their chalets and apartments, it finally feels as though Christmas can get started in earnest in La Plagne.
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.
The second ever Super Slalom, the world’s longest slalom competition, was held in La Plagne over Easter weekend. The comp saw some of Europe’s best slalom and freeskiers battling it out for the spoils over a mammoth 4km course, stretching from above Aime 2000 down to the village of La Roche near the foot of the Olympic bobsleigh track.
The Gorzderette is an ice climbing festival based in Champagny en Vanoise. It's set in the quiet valley floor around the huge man made ice climbing wall that stands at 22m high like a frozen tripod from an H.G Wells nightmare. The wall, which is the highest in Europe, is also used in the French National Ice Climbing Championships
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.
Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.
Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.
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.