24th March 2020
Snowsports: Who Won What?
World Cup skiing and snowboarding ended abruptly and prematurely this season, thanks to the coronavirus crisis. We round up your 2019-20 champions.
24th March 2020
World Cup skiing and snowboarding ended abruptly and prematurely this season, thanks to the coronavirus crisis. We round up your 2019-20 champions.
10th March 2020
The 22-year-old Briton has been confirmed as the overall World Cup Snowboard Slopestyle Champion. She’s the first British woman to win a Crystal Globe and the first snowboarder.
10th March 2020
Thomas Gerken-Schofield has put his name in the sporting history books. He is the first British skier to win a World Cup medal in the event.
5th March 2020
Mikaela Shiffrin has made the announcement on social media. She is heading to Scandinavia but will make a final decision once there.
4th March 2020
The GB Snowsport para snowboard team has picked up three World Cup medals, including two golds.
2nd March 2020
Six promising alpine skiers have been selected for the GB Squad at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships that get under way in Norway this week.
24th February 2020
A team of 6 will represent GB Snowsport at the FIS Nordic Junior & under-23 Cross-Country World Ski Championships which start later this week.
21st February 2020
Aksel Lund Svindal will be going a bit slower than usual. He’s not returning to downhill or super G action. He’s taking part in a gruelling cross-country ski race.
20th February 2020
The freestyle skier, Winter Olympian and former junior World Championships medallist is retiring from competition for health reasons. She is just 24. Her former team mates pay tribute.
17th February 2020
The snowboarder has been on the World Cup podium in four successive events and is leading the slopestyle standings with one competition to go.
15th February 2020
The former US skier who now competes for Team GB is on top of the podium. Gus Kenworthy has won gold at the FIS freestyle Halfpipe World Cup in Calgary, Canada.
14th February 2020
Imagine skiing downhill at speeds of more than 150kph – at night. The fastest men & women on the planet – including GB’s Jan Farrell – have just done it.
10th February 2020
It’s the full set of medals for British athletes competing at the prestigious Dew Tour in Colorado. They’re on the podium in both para snowboard and freestyle skiing.
8th February 2020
The 22-year old French racer, Clement Noel, has won the Kandahar World Cup slalom race in Chamonix. Cue wild celebrations, but there was disappointment for Dave Ryding. PlanetSKI was in the finish area.
6th February 2020
The competition is Snowsport England’s premier alpine event and the biggest British week of winter ski racing. It’s on in Bormio this month.
3rd February 2020
Skiers Izzy Atkin and Jasmin Taylor win silver & snowboarder Katie Ormerod continues her impressive comeback with her third World Cup podium in a row. She’s top of the slopestyle standings.
3rd February 2020
The 2020 event saw more than 150 young ski racers from 54 schools take part in the French resort of Flaine.
28th January 2020
The Rocket came 8th – his second Top Ten of the season. PlanetSKI is slopeside in Schladming at one of the highlights of the racing season.
28th January 2020
The great Norwegian ski racer has been answering questions from PlanetSKI. He was in Kitzbühel for the infamous Hahnekamm races but this time, he was watching.
27th January 2020
Downhill has the Hahnenkamm + the Lauberhorn. PlanetSKI is in Schladming for slalom’s biggest night, and party, of the winter.
26th January 2020
The British number one alpine racer is still looking for his second top 10 of the winter. He’s 20th in Kitzbühel where he achieved his first World Cup podium three years ago.
26th January 2020
She’s the most successful British skier of all time. The telemarker has more World Cup podiums than any other GB skier.
24th January 2020
The Sochi Olympics silver medallist is competing at the prestigious Aspen X Games under the British flag for the first time since switching allegiance from the USA. NEW
23rd January 2020
The most dangerous downhill ski race in the world takes place in the Austrian resort of Kitzbühel this weekend. Eight decades on it has lost none of its appeal, but why no women?
22nd January 2020
The series of races that are seen as key in the development of young female ski racers, return to the French resort this week.
22nd January 2020
The 15-year-old freestyle skier from Aberdeen takes GB’s only individual medal at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics. She’s on the podium in the Big Air.
21st January 2020
A young Austrian boy, Luca Stocker has a dream, he wants to ski as well as fellow countryman Marcel Hircher. Now, that is a wonderful dream and it seems to be shaping up.
20th January 2020
The 15-year-old freestyle skier was the top GB performer in a busy weekend of snowsports action as she just missed an Olympic medal. It follows Katie Ormerod’s World Cup bronze as she continues her comeback.
17th January 2020
The British snowboarder has her first World Cup slopestyle podium in almost four years. It’s another sign that she’s back on form after serious injury.
12th January 2020
The Rocket had a tough day in the office in the Swiss resort, finishing outside the top 20. Elsewhere GB skiers have being doing rather well.
8th January 2020
It’s the first top 10 of the season for GB’s leading alpine skier. It should give him confidence with his next race in just four days.
5th January 2020
Great Britain’s number one alpine skier is still waiting to break into the top 10 this season. He has his next chance in just 3 days.
3rd January 2020
The head of the International Ski Federation reflects on 10 years of the best & worst in skiing & snowboarding as we enter a new decade.
27th December 2019
It’s not been much of a Christmas holiday for some of GB’s athletes. A handful are back to work.
21st December 2019
There’s a host of events taking place this weekend. The first GB success comes with Izzy Atkin on the podium.
18th December 2019
A large contingent of snowsports athletes is included in the Team GB squad announced for the Lausanne 2020 Games.
11th December 2019
The British Olympic Association says Russia should not compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in all but name.
11th December 2019
The teenager won at the World Cup Freestyle ski halfpipe in Copper, USA. Dave Ryding had a difficult day in Val d’Isere.
6th December 2019
Flourinated ski wax will not be able to be used by racers next season due to its impact on the environment and health.
3rd December 2019
Gus Kenworthy is a Winter Olympics, X Games, World Championships and World Cup medallist. He joins the GB team with immediate effect.
28th November 2019
Ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter teenage hopefuls have been in Scandinavia learning the sport.
28th November 2019
Bryn Nicholas will now compete for Great Britain thanks to his British born father. He is the latest snowsport athlete to switch to GB.
24th November 2019
Gian-Franco Kasper has led the International Ski Federation for 22 years. At time he has been a controversial figure.
22nd November 2019
GB’s top alpine racer Dave Ryding was lying in second place in the opening slalom of the season. Sadly it was not to be.
18th November 2019
Millie Knight has taken up rowing. She could be one of the few athletes to compete at both Summer & Winter Paralympics.
14th November 2019
The President of the International Ski Federation looks ahead to the competition season as winter approaches.
13th November 2019
One of the true pioneers and legends in British ski racing has passed away. Konrad Bartelski remembers Stuart Fitzsimmons.
1st November 2019
Following a 2018/19 season with some podium performances, this season’s GB Parasnowsport squads have been selected.
28th October 2019
If you have been watching the Rugby World Cup & been tempted, you’re not the only one. We look at the influence the tournament may have on skiing.
23rd October 2019
A favourite wins the men’s race but the women’s GS race saw a surprise as the usualy all-conquering Mikaela Shiffren came second.
17th October 2019
That’s the record prize money that will be awarded to the winners of the Hahnenkamm races next season in Kitzbuhel.
26th September 2019
The Snowsport England initiative to get people to try skiing or snowboarding is back. It’s underway this month.
26th September 2019
The International Ski Federation has had joined the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework and made it part of its sustainability policy.
15th September 2019
Crowds of volunteers were sprayed at a test event in Japan. Snow guns may be used to keep people cool at next summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
8th September 2019
They are no strangers at the Winter Games but are to be tested & perhaps deployed at the Summer Games Tokyo 2020.
6th September 2019
A UK police force is paying for youngsters to have ski or snowboard lessons in a bid to deter them from crime.
6th September 2019
GB Snowsport is looking for an athlete who could join the GB Para Snowboard programme.
4th September 2019
Alpine racing has lost one of its very best as one of the greatest of all time hangs up his skis. PlanetSKI looks back.
4th September 2019
The 30-year old is one of the greatest ski racers of all time and he has called premature time on his career.
2nd September 2019
56-year old Blanca Fernandez Ochoa disappeared more than a week ago according to police. Officials said on Sunday that a black Mercedes A-Class car that Ms Fernandez was last…
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