Winter Sports

Season Kicks Off in Östersund

USA Canoe/Kayak (Free subscription) | yesterday

The tracks in Östersund are prepared. The Olympic Biathlon Season 2009/2010 is ready to start. Read

Baklava

Lily's Wai Sek Hong (Free subscription) | yesterday

Before our friend, Issa, relocate to Dubai, he used to be the authority on middle eastern cuisine to my family and he would make us the best Baklava. Now that Issa is not here to supply us with Baklava, i have to make it myself. There are so many versions and recipes and i decided to try this recipe from Athensfoods.com - Courtesy of Chef Dino Lubbat, Dinotto Ristorante, Chicago. This recipe produced...

Good Breaks, Tough Breaks for Canadian Squad At Home at Lake Louise Super G

First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lake Louise (AB), Canada - Invermere, British Columbia's Manuel Osborne–Paradis led the Canadians in what is believed to be the country's best super-G result ever, winning Sunday's Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart SG while two teammates joined him in the top 5. The day's glory was marred, however, by teammate John Kucera of Calgary, Alberta breaking two bones in his leg, which will put him...

SKIING: Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis wins opening Super-G

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis won the season-opening World Cup super-G. Switzerland's Didier Cuche became the oldest man to win a World Cup downhill when the 35-year-old stormed to victory in the season-opener.

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis wins super-G

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis won the season-opening super-giant slalom Sunday for his second career World Cup victory.

• Canada's Osborne-Paradis wins Lake Louise super-G - CBC.ca

Osborne-Paradis wins Lake Louise Super-G

France24 (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis earned the second World Cup victory of his career Sunday by capturing the first Super-G of the season. Osborne-Paradis flashed down the course in a time of one minute, 32.93 seconds to finish ahead of a pair of Austrians Benjamin Raich and Michael Walchhofer. "Wow, did anybody else expect this? I didn't," Osborne-Paradis said. "I think BetWin.com made...

• Osborne-Paradis wins, Kucera crashes in Lake Louise - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Canada's Osborne-Paradis wins Lake Louise super-G - CBC.ca

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis wins super-G

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis won the season-opening super-giant slalom Sunday for his second career World Cup victory.

Saturday Night Just Isn't Right Without You

Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009

Oh, this little thing? Just something I threw together. On a beach. In November. No better place to start today than round at Dr Steve's place - here covering the budding optimism in Leaf land. It's a battle of the Leaf blogs over at NHL Arena . Follow your hearts, cast your votes and may the best one win! (There, was that diplomatic enough for you PPP?) The stragglers of Friday's game reviews, in...

Men's world cup downhill

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009

Lake Louise, Canada - World-number-one-downhill racer Didier Cuche of Switzerland won the men's downhill in Canada Saturday in 1:50.31, followed by Werner Heel of Italy (1:50.75) and Carlo Janka of Switzerland (1:50.93). Michael Walchhofer of Austria...

• Cuche wins Lake Louise downhill - France24

Sugarloaf to Open Sunday for Skiing, Snowboarding

First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Carrabassett Valley, ME - Sugarloaf will open for the 2009-10 ski and snowboard season at 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning, after more than a foot of new snow blanketed the Maine ski resort's higher elevations on Friday night. The mountain recorded eight inches at the base, and better than 12 inches at the top of SuperQuad, with wind-driven drifts topping two feet.

Copper's Pipe Welcomes U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Dec. 12

First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Copper Mountain, CO - With the walls of Copper Mountain's 22-foot halfpipe getting their final grooming touches, the Colorado ski resort is ready to welcome the world's best riders to compete for a chance at Olympic glory during the opening U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Dec. 12.

New Book Looks at 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics

First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Squaw Valley, CA - In this Olympic season that marks the 50th anniversary of the Games held at California's Squaw Valley, a new book, Snowball's Chance -- The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games, Squaw Valley & Lake Tahoe chronicles the historic VIII Olympic Winter Games at Lake Tahoe.

Snowboarding off cliffs

Hitting Kickers (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Skiing or snowboarding off a cliff. The idea sounds frankly nuts in itself. Watching a good skier or snowboarder flying off a cliff-drop is spectacular and awe inspiring, but given the right conditions (powder) and landing (steep enough incline) isn’t as hard as it looks. You can’t hurt yourself in the air [...]

Curling: Campbell kicks off curling campaign with perfect run

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

CURLER Colin Campbell ended the first day of the Edinburgh International with a 100 per cent record after two excellent wins on his home ice at Murrayfield Ice Rink.

Bode Miller Second in Downhill Training for Lake Louise World Cup

First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Lake Louise (AB), Canada - Bode Miller of Franconia, N.H. led the way for the U.S. Ski Team Friday, finishing second behind Austrian Michael Walchhofer during the final downhill training on a sun-soaked day at Lake Louise Ski Area. Saturday's World Cup downhill will be the first speed race for Miller since World Championships in February last season.