Telemark World Championships 2017
The world’s best Telemark skiers will converge on La Plagne next month for the Telemark World Championships, being held across the resort from Tuesday 14th to Saturday 19th March.
Read reviews of the best La Plagne events
The world’s best Telemark skiers will converge on La Plagne next month for the Telemark World Championships, being held across the resort from Tuesday 14th to Saturday 19th March.
Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders.
Katie Summerhayes from Sheffield is back on snow for the first time since her ACL injury. She talks about the freeski scene to come out of Sheffield Ski Village and how Woodsy helped to push her when she started out on the European circuit.
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.
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.
Meet Aimee Fuller Slopestyle Snowboarder, stunt double and one of the British Freestyle Snowboard Team.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.
Magical March is here. Enjoy some great skiing and lazy lunches in the sunshine.
Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.
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.
La Plagne’s annual Born to Be Show attracted thousands to the Jean-Luc Crétier Stade de Slalom in Plagne Centre on Thursday evening as local skiers and snowboarders put on a spectacular winter sports display.
Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.