Event Previews & Reviews from Val d'Isere

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.

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.

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.

Well, it’s been one heck of a week. We’ve had sun, we’ve had snow, and we’ve had one amazing event to take our minds off of our desolate bank accounts, the fat tyre forming around out waists, and of course, the fact that we’re slacking off at work, again.

Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders. 

Meet Aimee Fuller Slopestyle Snowboarder, stunt double and one of the British Freestyle Snowboard Team.

The Relentless Freeze Festival did exactly what it said on the tin and those not wearing their ski jackets could be found with teeth chattering, huddled around the vin chaud stand wrapping themselves in a fruity alcoholic blanket.

Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.

Katie Summerhayes from Sheffield is back on snow for the first time since her ACL injury. She talks about the freeski scene to come out of Sheffield Ski Village and how Woodsy helped to push her when she started out on the European circuit.

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

The White Battle was a local organised and run competition. Twelve teams made up of a skier, snowboarder and rookie went head to head in a knock-out comp. Each team had to pull the best tricks they could off the kicker at the bottom of the Face to go through to the next round.

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.

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

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

February was dominated by the Alpine Skiing World Championships, held every second year, which kicked off in St Moritz on 6th February. Over 13 days, 589 athletes from 76 countries competed in eleven competitions in front of 165,000 spectators.