Ben Kilner Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB
Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders.
Read reviews of the best La Plagne events
Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders.
Last weekend La Plagne hosted its annual FIS races. The French Europa Cup team and World Cup Speed team were both taking part so the competition was really tough. On Saturday and Sunday two Giant Slalom races were held on the Stade at La Plagne Centre. It is a tough piste as there are very steep parts and then flat sections with lots of rolls.
Stage 17 of the Tour de France 2016 took the riders from Bern, the capital of Switzerland, to Finaut-Emosson on the Swiss-French border, just around the corner from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.
Reigning World Champion, four time X-Games gold medal winner and all round nice bloke Kevin Rolland busts out his best tricks and best Blue Steel for the cameras in the lead up to the 2011 World Cup in La Plagne.
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.
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.
Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.
It may be the last month of the year, but the ski lifts are open and Christmas is on the horizon.
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.
Meet Aimee Fuller Slopestyle Snowboarder, stunt double and one of the British Freestyle Snowboard Team.
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.
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 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.
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
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.
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.
The main player video above is going to stream the International & UK coverage and for those of you in France already, watch the stream below.
Episode four of One Team to Sochi is out and it's all about the young lad from Bradford; Jamie Nicholls.