A group of female ski jumpers have said they will appeal a court ruling that dismissed their bid to force Olympic organisers to let them compete in next year’s Winter Games in Vancouver.

The 96th edition of the Tour de France, that ended last week, cast its spell over many a ski star. During the first two and half weeks, several well-known FIS athletes have visited the Tour, the world’s largest sporting event in terms of the number of spectators on site.

The father of a man killed while doing maintenance on a chairlift said the $250,000 fine imposed on the owners of the Alberta ski hill where the death occurred is fair. The money will go toward an endowment for Selkirk College in B.C., which has a ski-resort operations and management program.

The British Ski and Board Show, one of the best winter sports show in the country, will come of age when it returns from Friday 30th October to Sunday 1st November as it celebrates 21 years at Birmingham’s NEC with breathtaking features for enthusiasts and novices to enjoy.

Keen skiers and boarders can try out the new 2010 season equipment before anybody else at an exclusive test camp in France. Ski and board retailer Edge2Edge has teamed up with holiday firm Mountainsun to offer a three-day break during September – December 09 to snow-sure resort Tignes.

Whilst the famous Swedish Ice Hotel is made mostly of snow, the more recent Finnish SnowHotel has more ice in its construction – 300 tonnes to be precise.

A British climber plunged 130ft to his death while scaling a rockface in the French Alps with no safety rope. The 44-year-old, also not wearing a helmet, was killed instantly as he climbed the 12,000ft Milieu glacier.

An 80-year-old man who attempted a two-metre ski jump on the weekend was rushed to hospital with a broken hip. An Ambulance Victoria helicopter flew the injured man, a regular skier at Mt Buller since the 1950s, off the mountain to Melbourne yesterday afternoon.