Event Previews & Reviews from Val d'Isere

How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.

July brings with it all sorts of sporting events. This year we have the EURO 2016 hosted in France at the start of the month, the annual tennis tournamant at Wimbledon and Formula 1 action at Silverstone, Budapest and Hockenheim.

After four exciting days of racing in the Alps, Chris Froome emerged victorious in Paris for the third win of his career. Equalling the records of Philippe Thys, Louison Bobet and Greg LeMond who all have three Tour wins under their belts, and becoming Britain's first three-time winner.

Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.

The International 4x4 Salon is back in Val d’Isere.Situated in the large parking area in La Daille, the show also offers 4x4 enthusiasts the chance to take a ride around the off road tracks on the top of the mountain.

Le Tour de France 2016 kicked off last Saturday with stage one and the 'Grand Depart' being hosted by the stunning island community of Le Mont Saint Michel.

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.

Downhill training for the female ski competitors in the Criterium de la Premiere Neige.

So far we've seen not only some fantastic racing, stunning scenery and nail-biting sprints from the 2016 Tour de France, but we've witnessed several unusual crashes, the yellow jersey literally running up Mont Ventoux and more than one incident of an over-enthusiastic fan causing disruption.

Day two of X-Games Europe in Tignes dawned with clear skies and beautiful sunshine. Everything was set for a great day.

As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.

Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.

Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.

With Val d'Isere scheduled to open for the winter season on November 24th, it's time to start looking ahead to all the fantastic events taking place in resort over the coming months.

Stage 17 of the Tour de France 2016 took the riders from Bern, the capital of Switzerland, to Finaut-Emosson on the Swiss-French border, just around the corner from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.