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| Fourth German Snowdome Opens This Weekend | 25/10/2006 7:19 |
| Some five years after the last of Germany?s three existing indoor snow centres opened, the fourth, ?Snow Dome Sölden in Bispingen? is due to open this weekend, 21st October. A fifth, the long awaited SnowFun Park, is scheduled to open in December. |
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| Snowboard World Cup Opens Indoors in Holland | 17/10/2006 13:42 |
| With their victory in the first Parallel Slalom of the Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup 2006/2007, Amelie Kober (GER) and Austrian Siegfried Grabner had the perfect start in the first event of the new season?s Snowboard World Cup. The events were staged at Dutch Indoor Snow Centre Snowworld Landraaf, which currently has the world?s longest indoor ski slope at 520m. |
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| Russia Plans Longest Indoor Snow Ski Slope Yet | 17/10/2006 13:37 |
| Russia?s first indoor snow centre is due to open in the next few months, but several more are either under construction or close to it, most exciting the Freestyle Park Moscow. This has been designed with another list of world firsts from the British team that pioneered indoor snow in the early 1990s and have gone on to global success with centres including Xanadu, Madrid and Ski Dubai. |
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| Thomson Continues to Support British Ski Racing | 05/10/2006 11:53 |
| The ?Thomson Grand Prix Series? Bursary Scheme, sponsored by Britain?s leading tour operator Thomson, part of the international TUI group, on English dry ski slopes has once again run very successfully during spring and summer 2006 and culminated in the prize giving at the dry ski slope in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. |
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| Après opens at Mall of the Emirates | 05/10/2006 11:50 |
| Après, a new cocktail bar and restaurant with an unrivalled view of the ski slope, has opened at Mall of the Emirates. The interior design of Après is inspired by some of the most exclusive European and American ski resorts and transports diners into a world of Alpine ski-lodge chic. |
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| Ski and Snowboard Tour Slides In To British Schools | 05/10/2006 11:48 |
| On the 5th September the British Snowlife Schools Tour, now in its second successful year, hits the road again to educate and inspire over 8,000 school pupils to give snowboarding and skiing a go for the first time. The team of professionals - among them Olympians and British Champions - will visit a lucky 16 schools across the UK, giving away over 1250 free introductory lessons at the Snowlife ?Ride & Slide? weekends, staged at local slopes.
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| Skiing Everest?s Height Indoors | 05/10/2006 11:46 |
| A new challenge has been laid out for skiers and boarders in aid of Cancer Research UK. The Ski Everest Challenge to be staged at the Sno!Zone in Xscape Braehead, Glasgow on Sunday 22nd October is to ski the vertical height of Mount Everest indoors (29035 feet/8850m). |
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| British Champions Get Chance to Grab Star Status on World Stage | 05/10/2006 11:45 |
| UK?s snowboard and freeski elite will all be under one roof, throwing down some tight freestyle action to a crowd of thousands, as the Orange AIM Series presents the British Quarterpipe Championships at this year?s Metro Ski and Snowboard Show, London, on the 20th October, with the two most talented snowboarders provided entry into one of the highest ranking events on the World Snowboard Tour, The O?Neill Evolution. |
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