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Think hiking instead of snow shoeing, biking instead of skiing or snowboarding and climbing up, instead of sliding down.

You may be packing away your skis for the summer but young snowsports fans are being urged to look to the future – the Futures Project, that is.

Calgary city council has voted to continue with Winter Olympic & Paralympic bid process following concerns last week. NEW

The Speed Skiing World Cup ends with a Brit coming 5th overall as they reach speeds of 200 km/h. PlanetSKI looks at the sport. NEW

As they prepare to hang up their skis at the end of the season, two of GB’s Olympic skiers have been talking to PlanetSKI at their final World Cup in Tignes.

The ski racing reason ends but there’s one big date left for GB skiers. The British Alpine Championships get under way this week. UPDATED

Izzy Atkin picks up another medal – silver at the slopestyle World Cup in Italy. James ‘Woodsy’ Woods also gets on the podium. NEW & UPDATED

The competition season is reaching its climax but several GB skiers & snowboarders are still hoping to make their mark, including an Olympic medallist. NEW

Another day, another medal for GB at the Paralympics as visually-impaired skier Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide Jen Kehoe take silver in the giant slalom. UPDATED

In 12 years’ time Britain is wants to be up there with the world’s best ski & snowboard nations. With two medals from Pyeongchang, is that even possible?

The most dangerous sports in the Winter Olympic Games revealed.

Scotland’s mini Winter Olympics has been declared a huge success with thousands of people taking part. NEW

It’s all over with Team GB home. Billy Morgan, wielded the flag for GB as the 23rd Winter Olympics closed. We review the best & worst bits.

Britain’s ski cross racer Emily Sarsfield got to the Olympics at the third attempt and she’s made it count, getting through to the quarter finals.

Snowboarder Billy Morgan is through to the final of the first men’s Olympic Big Air competition. Also on day 12, Lindsey Vonn misses out on gold.

The newest and most spectacular sport to be included in the Winter Olympics has landed. It’s Snowboard Big Air and Austrian Anna Gasser is a hot favourite.

Britain’s James Woods put on a superb display in the ski slopestyle Olympic final but finished just out of the medals in fourth.

The greatest show on earth has taken place & we’ve been looking at anything quirky, off beat or newsy that’s caught our eye in PyeongChang. Here’s Week Two. NEW & UPDATED

It’s bronze for Dom Parsons in the skeleton – the first time Britain has won an Olympic medal in the men’s skeleton for 70 years. But Andrew Musgrave has a shocker.

The American Mikaela Shiffrin failed to get on the podium in the Olympic slalom a day after her gold in the giant slalom.

It’s heartbreak at the Winter Olympics for short-track speed skater Elise Christie as she crashes out in the 500m final. She’d been tipped to take GB’s first medal.

With more alpine ski races postponed and snowboarders taking hard falls in the Olympic slopestyle final, are the gusty conditions ruining the sport?

Andrew Musgrave has come 7th in the best ever Olympic result for a British cross-country skier – and his favourite event is yet to come.

The greatest show on earth is underway & we look at anything quirky, off beat or newsy that catches our eye in PyeongChang. NEW & UPDATED

GB’s first Winter Paralympic champion Kelly Gallagher will be in the squad for the Pyeongchang Games after initially failing to be selected. NEW

If the Winter Olympics inspire you then see here for where you can try the sports you’ll be watching.

Russian athletes & coaches that have been cleared of doping offences by the Court of Arbitration for Sport will not be allowed to take part at Pyeongchang. NEW

The Scottish resort is holding its own version of the Winter Olympics this month to capitalise on Olympic fever.

The winter athletes who were banned from the Olympics for life for doping offences at Sochi have had their suspensions overturned. The IOC has condemned the decision.

Scottish snowsports have received a big financial boost to promote Scotland as a destination of choice for skiing and snowboarding. NEW

Izzy Atkin takes silver in the women’s Ski Slopestyle and James Woods bronze in the ski Big Air. Check out how other GB athletes did too. UPDATED

GB’s squad of Winter Olympian skiers and snowboarders is pretty much as expected, but there’ll be a few disappointed athletes out there. We look behind the headlines.

An independent investigation has been ordered after a female snowboarder made allegations of bullying and discrimination in British Parasnowsport.

On a wild and windy weekend in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, the second leg of the ISMF took place. NEW

The selectors have met and on Thursday we’ll know which skiers and snowboarders will represent Team GB at the Winter Olympics. NEW

They’ll compete in 5 disciplines & 3 sports including alpine skiing. The two Koreas will march together at the Opening Ceremony with a joint ice hockey team. NEW

Freestyle skier Izzy Atkin and Telemark’s Jasmin Taylor picked up a pair of podiums each at the weekend.

The GB slalom specialist Dave Ryding blamed only himself after a bad day racing in Wengen on Sunday. NEW & UPDATED

Izzy Atkin takes bronze in the Slopestyle at Aspen as World Cup events across the discipines continue. NEW & UPDATED

An ‘Olympic participation meeting’ for North and South Korea has been called by the IOC. NEW