WinterSports
Winter sports sponsors including Audi and Equinor will melt almost 2,000 square kilometres worth of snow a year with their carbon emissions, according to a new report. For the first time, campaigners have formulated a way to measure the climate impact of major sponsorship deals with polluting industries. The findings from the New Weather Institute think tank underline an already glaring irony: winter sports are imperilled by many of their largest backers. “Winter athletes want to solely focus on their performance but the spectre of climate change looms large over every single snow sport,” says...
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Record temperatures have again caused problems for ski resorts this winter. An EU project is now investigating how lift operators can best respond to climate change. In Sankt Corona am Wechsel in Austria, diggers are already removing the remaining snow from ski slopes...for summer sports enthusiasts. One solution for the snow problem is summer sports. "The ski season is over earlier than expected. That's why our trail construction team is already on the slopes shovelling out the trails so that we can start mountain biking" says Karl Morgenbesser, the lift operator at Sankt Corona am Wechsel. T...
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I’m not sporty. I hate the cold. And risk-taking isn’t my idea of fun. So switching my usual sunny beach holiday for a weekend on the slopes didn’t come easy. But I’ll try anything once. And after just two days in Avoriaz in the French Alps, I am surprised and a little sheepish to admit that I am now a skiing convert. Yes, I fell over multiple times. My legs are killing me. And I was surrounded by ice and snow. But it was also a fun, magical experience - and not as cold or expensive as I had envisioned. If, like me, you’re considering a ski trip but are feeling a little anxious, here’s everyth...
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Swiss bobsled athlete Sandro Michel is recovering from emergency surgery, his team said Wednesday, after a training crash that has left some sledders considering whether it's safe or appropriate to compete in World Cup races this weekend. Michel was the brakeman at the back of a four-man sledge piloted by Michael Vogt that crashed on Tuesday during training. He was tossed from his seat and was still on the ice when the vehicle slid back down the icy chute. The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said Michel was "run over by the bobsleigh, which was uncontrollably sliding back from th...
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Ski resorts across Europe have been left snowless this winter as temperatures spike. Those at lower altitudes have been particularly hard hit, with almost a third of European resorts - from Austria’s Tyrol mountains to France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes - currently forced to close. As the climate heats up, the problem is getting worse. Since the 1960s, there have been five fewer snow days every decade in the French Alps, according to weather service Météo France. Research published last year in the journal Nature showed that if global warming reaches 2°C above pre-industrial levels, more than half ...
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