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Virginie Bernat / Raúl Revuelta Carbajo
10.03.10
There have been big snowfalls in Pyrenees, and the nearby city of Barcelona ground to a standstill due to the weekend snowstorm.
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Pascal Bovee
10.03.10
Germany had a snowy weekend with more than 30 powder alarms. Most of them were issued in the central and southern uplands (Sauerland, Harz and Black Forest).
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Patrick Thorne
07.03.10
Scotland's five mountain ski areas have been blessed not only by lots of snow this winter, but also more customers than any winter since 2001.
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Patrick Thorne
10.03.10
There have been more serious snowfalls on both East and West sides of the continent.
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Patrick Thorne
10.03.10
The snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij made Dutch and Olympic history, when she became the first snow sports athlete from her country to win a medal in a snow discipline. Sauerbreij's medal was also the 100th for the Netherlands in Olympic history.
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Virginie Bernat
10.03.10
It snowed a lot last week in the French mountains with 13 powder alarms in the French Alps on Friday.
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Sally Brookes
10.03.10
In Scandinavia it seems there's nothing holding back the snow right now. It continues to accumulate from last week causing problems for traffic and transport like buses and railways and leading to some roof collapses in the south of Sweden while at the same time adding to the great snow depths at ski resorts across the whole country.
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10.03.10
Sunday's gold in men's hockey brings Canada's gold medal count to fourteen - the highest of any country in any winter Olympics ever. The Soviet Union, in 1976, and Norway, in 2002, each won 13.
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Sally Brookes
07.03.10
CairnGorm Mountain ski area above Aviemore in Scotland is attempting to set a world record for the largest number of kilted skiers/boarders skiing/boarding down a piste at once.
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Patrick Thorne
07.03.10
The 2010 Edition of the International Telemark Festival will take place in Livigno next month for March 20th to the 27th.
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Pascal Bovee
18.02.10
There has been limited fresh snowfall in the Alps over the past five days, but that is expected to change in the next few days and the first few powder alarms for 20cm (8 inches) of new snow in the past 24 hours have been issued this morning by several Swiss resorts.
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Sally Brookes
18.02.10
Despite the fluctuating weather conditions in Vancouver for the Olympic Games, most of the rest of North America's ski areas are reporting great ski conditions.
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Raúl Revuelta Carbajo
18.02.10
In Spain it's snowing again in Madrid and ther novelty of that is wearing off after multiple snowfalls in the Spanish capital. It's good news for skiers wanting to visit the nearby ski hills too and has increased business at the city's indoor snow centre as people think more about winter sports. More snowfall is expected through the remainder of the week in Spanish ski resorts.
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Patrick Thorne
17.02.10
Riksgränsen, the worlds northern most ski resort known for its midnight sun due to open in two days. They also have 120cm (four feet) at the moment.
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Patrick Thorne
16.02.10
Whistler, host venue for the men's and women's alpine skiing competitions, will athletes training on the Olympic courses from today. The first alpine competition is the Men's Downhill on February 13th, the first day of Games competition.
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Virginie Bernat
16.02.10
It has snowed a lot on the French mountains throughout the past week, with the heaviest snow leading up to the weekend. The snow is continuing today and is expected to continue for the next few days. Up to 60cm (2 feet) has been reported over the last week with resorts like Meribel, La Plagne and le Grand Bornand all reporting big falls.
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Pascal Bovee
17.02.10
Switzerland also witnessed snowfalls last weekend. Arosa and Klosters in Grisons were among those issuing powder alarms on Saturday. Even more snow fell in the Valais with Champoussin receiving 60 cm (two feet) in only 48 hours. The resort issued just another powder alarm this morning because of a further 30cm (one foot) snowfall, as did its neighbour in the giant Portes du Soleil ski region, Morgins.
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Sally Brookes
16.02.10
Austria has had a lot of fresh snow in the past week.
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Patrick Thorne
10.02.10
Scotland's Cairngorm Mountain had the unusual problem of having too much snow in the first half of January, which led to a huge community effort to ‘dig out' key parts of the ski area including access roads, lifts and the summit restaurant so that skiers could reach the slopes, closed by too much snow.
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Skiinfo Norge
10.02.10
Skiinfo's snow reports are now available on the iPhone thanks to a new app from the world's leading snow information provider. The new application allows users to search for snow data from more than 1500 ski resorts in Europe.
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Sally Brookes
10.02.10
Swiss resorts have reported huge snowfalls over the past few days, led by Filzbach - Kerenzerberg which has received two metres (Nearly 7 feet) of new snow in the past week.
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