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Event Previews & Reviews from Alpe d'Huez

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New Year's Eve in Alpe d'Huez New Year's Eve in Alpe d'Huez

New Year's Eve in Alpe d'Huez

Seeing in the start of 2016 in Alpe d'Huez

New Years Eve celebrations certainly got underway with a bang here in Alpe d’Huez, albeit in somewhat tricky visibility. Celebrations got underway at Les Bergers at just after 5.30pm with a torchlight descent by the ski instructors of ESF Ski School, with hundreds of blue, white and red torches forming a fantastic French tricolour, a truly wonderful sight.

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Road to Sochi With Freestyle Team GB: Risk & Reward

Road to Sochi With Freestyle Team GB: Risk & Reward

No Pain, No Gain for Olympic Hopefuls

Professional Skiers & Snowboarders put their bodies through alot. This episode looks at the injuries Freestyle Team GB have suffered and the road to recovery and the Olympics.

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International Comedy Film Festival in Alpe d'Huez a billboard above a doorway

International Comedy Film Festival in Alpe d'Huez

Film premieres running through until the 18th January

Last night crowds gathered outside Alpe D’Huez Palais de Sport for the highly regarded International Comedy Film Festival.

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Alpe d'Huez v Serre Chevalier Ice Hockey Match

Alpe d'Huez v Serre Chevalier Ice Hockey Match

A bruising local derby ends in a thrilling 4-4 draw

It’s always crash, bang, wallop when you mix an ice hockey match with a dash of local rivalry – and this match was no exception.

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Haute Route Alpe d’Huez 2017 21 bends alpe dhuez

Haute Route Alpe d’Huez 2017

It might be deep winter but start making your summer cycling plans now

We may be expecting a huge dump of snow in the next few days (see our dump alerts) but the keen cyclists amongst us are already planning our summer events and setting training programmes to suit

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Fred Syversen: Professional Skier With World Record for Highest Cliff Jump an image of fred syversen skiing in chamonix

Fred Syversen: Professional Skier With World Record for Highest Cliff Jump

An insider's guide to life as a pro skier, freeskiing in Chamonix and who to look out for in the 2013 Freeride World Tour

As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.

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Andros Trophy 2015 in Alpe d'Huez

Andros Trophy 2015 in Alpe d'Huez

A quick look at some of the action from this years Andros Trophy

Have a look behind the scenes and at some of the action from this years Andros Trophy in Alpe d'Huez. It's basically rally driving on ice, and yes, it's as much fun as it sounds!

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British success in Tour de France Sky team in paris

British success in Tour de France

Froome takes 3rd Tour de France title in 2016

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.

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Highlights of the 2011 London Freeze

Highlights of the 2011 London Freeze

Highlights from London freeze and a chat with James Woods

The London Freeze is the ski and snowboard event that brings together international live music acts and some of the world's best riders. The two day festival is the last weekend in October and in 2011 we caught up with X-Games medalist James Wooods for a chat about his Olympic hopes.

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Alpe d'Huez Ski Marathon 2019 Review

Alpe d'Huez Ski Marathon 2019 Review

Some of Frances best skiers take to the slopes of Alpe d’Huez (and Rob from Alpedhueznet!)

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A good-sized crowd was in attendance for the first round of the 2019 French Long Distance Cross-Country Ski Cup in Alpe d’Huez on Sunday, January 6th.

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Ski Mountaineering in Alpe d'Huez

High altitude endurance action up on the hill

Next weekend sees the 20th edition of the prestigious Pyramide d’Oz ski mountaineering race, a race that regularly forms part of the French National Cup (Coupe de France) – on a course that was used in the 2009 World Cup. Around 150 to 200 competitors are set to tackle the gruelling course.

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Megavalanche 2019 bookings Megavalanche 2019 bookings

Megavalanche 2019 bookings

The biggest mountain bike race in Alpe d'Huez

Summer in Alpe d’Huez is all about the 'Mega' which, in 2019, runs between July 8th and 14th. Thousands of intrepid, downhill mountain biking, adrenaline junkies will make their annual pilgrimage to resort.

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Megavalanche 2016 results a MTB race in alpe dhuez

Megavalanche 2016 results

One of the snowiest races in recent years

That's it for another epic week of riding and racing at the 2016 Megavalanche.. the snow was deeper and longer than it's been in the past 5 years, creating much more challenging conditions for the riders taking part this year.

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Dom Harington Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Dom Harington Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

One Team to Sochi Dom Harington

Dom Harington is a Halfpipe Snowboarder from Leeds who has missed the last two Olympics due to injuries after winning the Europa Cup Halfpipe. Sochi is probably his last chance to be part of the Olympics and he's giving it everything he has.

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