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enter THE VOLUME - Monday 8 March 2010 JEREMY JONES - 60 DAYS TO SAVE OUR WINTER In an effort to raise awareness, 8-time Big Mountain Snowboarder of the Year Jeremy Jones recently took his passion for the slopes to a different kind of hill - Capitol Hill.
enter THE VOLUME - Sunday 7 March 2010 The French were the shining light of the finals at the NESCAFE CHAMPS 2010 The snow and the fog didn't get the best of the very motivated snowboarders in the finals of the NESCAFE CHAMPS 2010 in Leysin.
enter THE VOLUME - Thursday 4 March 2010 Dealing with unprepared backcountry skiers How do you feel when you're out in the backcountry and you see others without the right safety equipment? Here's Cody Townsend's advice to approach the situation.
enter THE VOLUME - Monday 1 March 2010 Games end on a high for Canada as Australia basks in success It ended with a ceremony inside BC Place Stadium but the ''excellent and friendly'' winter games of the 21st Olympiad had earlier reached a remarkable conclusion, just a couple of hundred metres away and barely 30 minutes beforehand.
enter THE VOLUME - Monday 22 February 2010 Russian skaters continue to use controversial Aboriginal routine Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are expected to skate to their controversial Australian Aboriginal-themed dance when they do their original routine at the Pacific Coliseum on Sunday afternoon.
enter THE VOLUME - Friday 19 February 2010 An Olympic Sized Rant I woke up this morning and heard my friend Chris Bachmann was escorted to the airport by the IOC for speaking out of line at the boardercross contest.
enter THE VOLUME - Thursday 18 February 2010 Treble Cone Season Pass price freeze for 2010 LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand, Treble Cone ski area today announced its early bird 2010 season passes prices will remain the same as 2009.
enter THE VOLUME - Thursday 18 February 2010 Aussie Mates qualifies for halfpipe semi-finals Australia's Ben Mates has qualified for the semi-finals of the men's snowboard halfpipe at Cypress Mountain this morning.
enter THE VOLUME - Thursday 18 February 2010 'Flying Tomato' wins Olympic gold with Double McTwist Putting on a show when he didn't even have to, "The Flying Tomato", redheaded American Shaun White capped his gold-medal night on the halfpipe with his signature trick - the dangerous, spiralling Double McTwist 1260 during a victory lap that will go down as nothing short of epic.
enter THE VOLUME - Wednesday 17 February 2010 Quotes: Who said what at Vancouver Olympic Winter Games "It is the fastest track in the world. It has the highest G-forces and it is really technical so I just had to make sure I've got it all right because I can be a bit of an airhead." - Australian skeleton entrant Melissa Hoar
enter THE VOLUME - Wednesday 17 February 2010 Snowboarding prodigy Scott's Olympic blow Snowboarding prodigy Scott James will be forced to ride through the pain barrier in his first Winter Olympics after fracturing his wrist in sloppy conditions at the Cypress Mountain halfpipe.
enter THE VOLUME - Tuesday 16 February 2010 Win a 'flakin good snow package' The 'flakin good snow package' competition has now launched and you can read all about it on our website; www.japansnowreports.com/competition.
enter THE VOLUME - Sunday 14 February 2010 Wanaka to host 2010 FIS Junior World Championships Snow Sports New Zealand announced today that all three Wanaka-area ski fields will share the spotlight for this August's 2010 FIS Snowboard & Freestyle Junior World Championships.
enter THE VOLUME - Tuesday 9 February 2010 Boxing Kangaroo gets the okay from the IOC After a week of controversy, the IOC have agreed to let the Australian Boxing Kanagroo flag remain in the Vancouver Athletes' Village
enter THE VOLUME - Monday 8 February 2010 Ski instructor training industry receives trans-Tasman boost New Zealand's longest running independent ski instructor training programme, The Rookie Academy, has seen a 150% increase in Australian clients for the 2010.
enter THE VOLUME - Sunday 7 February 2010 International Olympians Sweep Podium at Canadian Open Halfpipe Finals Six Olympians from four countries swept the podium today during the halfpipe competition at the second annual Burton Canadian Open.
enter THE VOLUME - Wednesday 3 February 2010 The Daily Flake The Daily Flake is your window into Japan's incredible winter. These video reports will be updated daily throughout the ski season so you can check out conditions at a range of different Japanese resorts.
enter THE VOLUME - Tuesday 2 February 2010 Battery Bagjump Sessions, Helsinki The reason to report from this event is that in a way it was groundbreaking: the event organizer Soul Productions combined the two unique event elements in a creative new way. A Bagjump was put together with the great Finnish innovation of Spedelinko.
enter THE VOLUME - Tuesday 2 February 2010 WINTER X GAMES 14, IT'S A WRAP! The final day of the action packed X games has just concluded and what a spectacle it was. Aspen / Snowmass was an outstanding host for its ninth consecutive year.
enter THE VOLUME - Monday 1 February 2010 Australian Olympic Team partially confirmed Australia's 2010 Winter Olympic team is almost in its final form, after a round of reallocated quotas late last week that saw several young athletes inducted into the squad there were no new additions over the weekend.