As temperatures warm, ski and snowboard resorts are investing more in snowmaking and seeing their seasons shrink. Those costs roll down to customers in an already expensive sport.
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What does it take to deliver a medal-winning performance in skeleton, which involves racing down a banked track faster than a car on a freeway, with your face mere centimetres from the ice?
Ski jumpers do everything they can to counteract the effects of gravity and fly as far as they can down hills.
Even with Winter Olympics for inspiration, outdoor activity in sub-zero weather can be hard to commit to. How can it be easier, safer and more fun to embrace your inner winter athlete?
Industry insiders say winter tourism has been battered by the pandemic.
A panel of winter sports experts told us that pandemic-enforced technological advances are providing hope for the shattered sector.
Keeping kids active in winter can be a challenge, as cold temperatures and icy conditions often mean more time indoors. Here’s how to maintain a healthy activity level throughout Canadian winters.
New research forecasts that climate change will make multiyear stretches with low snow levels more common across western North America – bad news for water managers, farmers, foresters and skiers.
A few visits to the gym or a short jog around the block in the week before departure isn’t enough preparation.
Measuring the success of the Australian team at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang may still be aligned to the ambitious Winning Edge targets.
Snowboard cross has the highest incidence of injury during competition among the snowboarding disciplines.
What’s in a name? Chamonix-Mont-Blanc was quick to harness the first Winter Olympics for its economic potential.
It’s slow, precise, emotional – and made for television.
Halfpipe snowboarders like Scotty James may seem laid-back and relaxed, but they are subjected to high physical load and fatigue induced by training and competition.
Matt Graham’s silver medal in mogul skiing is the third time an Australian has won a medal in the event at a Winter Olympics.
Hurtling at 50 km per hour over vertical drops, rolls and turning banks – that’s snowboard cross and ski-cross. If they make a good start, seven Australians are in with a medal chance in Pyeongchang.
The long winter Olympic journey from Chamonix in 1924 to PyeongChang in 2018.
Snowboarding and freeskiing are relatively new to the Winter Olympics, coming from highly-skilled amateur backgrounds. Their athletes are often risk-taking individualists, at home on social media.
A delicate truce between North and South Korea has been reached in the run up to the Winter Olympics. It’s a high profile win for an event which is struggling to remain relevant.
Australia’s snow season is notoriously fickle - so what determines whether we’ll get a good fall?
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PhD Candidate, Victoria University
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Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Sports Technology, Bournemouth University
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Principal Lecturer of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
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Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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Associate Professor of Thermo Fluid Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor, Sport Pedagogy and Coaching, The University of Queensland
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate lecturer, Leibniz Institute of European History
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, Bond Business School, Bond University