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2011 WU Update Day9 - Snowboard - Half Pipe

Winter Games 3 February 2011

  An Exceptional Level ! ERZURUM – February 4th- There was quite a crowd to see the show at the half pipe final, which is always spectacular. In the Women’s event, all eyes were turned to the Chinese star in the discipline, Xuetong Cai, who has won a respectable number of World Cup titles over […]

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2011 WU Update Day6 - Snowboard - PGS

Winter Games 31 January 2011

  ERZURUM – February 1st- We had a fantastic PGS snowboard competition today at the Palandöken Ski Resort. The conditions were difficult during the qualifications with snowfalls and foggy weather but then the sun came and the finals could start. The level was quite high but on this kind of fresh and soft snow, chance […]

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2011 WU Update - Day 4 - Snowboard: SBX Finals

Winter Games 29 January 2011

Konstantin Schad, the Men’s Gold Medallist in action ERZURUM – January 30th- Snowboardcross was the first event in the snowboard competition. Yesterday the snowboarders raced the clock one by one for qualifications, unlike the finals where they performed four at a time. Understandably, the most experienced snowboarder was the one to excel on this fairly […]

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2011 WU Update: CIS Announces Canadian Alpine Skiing & Snowboarding Rosters

Alpine Skiing 17 December 2010

OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Wednesday the student-athletes and coaches who will represent Canada in alpine skiing and snowboarding at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada did not participate in these two sports at the last Games in Harbin, China, in 2009. Head coach and team leader Vincent Lavoie of Laval University […]

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Maoershan Update: Biathlon & Snowboard

Winter Games 25 February 2009

    Biathlon: Russian and Ukrainian Pursuit The Biathlon Pursuit event is easy to understand: you start in the same position as the one obtained after the sprint competition. This means that the winner of the 10km sprint men, the Russian Artem Gusev was the first to take the start 2 seconds before the Ukrainian […]

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Snowboard: Anja and Viktor: Parallel Destinies

Winter Games 23 February 2009

Who would have bet one dime on Anja Puggl and Viktor Kulikov before the finals of the snowboard parallel giant slalom? Except their best friends or their family members, no one. But this (wo)man to (wo)man race is a very special event because the proximity of your opponent can be stressful. The sun was shining […]