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Event Previews & Reviews from Les 2 Alpes

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Les Deux Alpes Night Snowtrail review running up a piste at night

Les Deux Alpes Night Snowtrail review

Annual trail running event, on snow, at night

This weekend just gone saw the fifth edition of the Deux Alpes Night Snowtrail race. As always it was a well-attended, well-run event, but this year saw the 2015 Trail Running world champion in attendance. Sylvain Court, who is also a two-time French champion, was running in the 20km race.

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Kumi Yama Video, Les Deux Alpes 2010

Kumi Yama Video, Les Deux Alpes 2010

The return of the Japanese freestyle free-for-all

The Japanese three man team freestyle festival returned to Les Deux Alpes in 2010 for it's biggest year. Although the weather was mixed the riders on the glacier were among the best in the world and the open sessions and three man on course slopestyle event showed just what was possible on the Les Deux Alpes glacier.

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Defi Vertical ski touring race review ski touring race in 2 Alpes

Defi Vertical ski touring race review

A 14km uphill race from 2 Alpes to the top of the glacier

Saturday saw the first edition of the Les Deux Alpes Defí Vertical – a ski touring race from the town at 1650 metres to the top of the glacier at 3600 metres.

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Les 2 Alpes Night Snow Trail 2019 preview Les 2 Alpes Night Snow Trail 2019 preview

Les 2 Alpes Night Snow Trail 2019 preview

The unique event returns on January 19th 2019

Location
Les Deux Alpes

Back for the seventh year running, Les Deux Alpes’ Night Snow Trail continues to attract a growing number of trail runners each winter. In 2018, over 500 runners took part in the three courses.

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iXS European Downhill Cup 2016 iXS European Downhill Cup 2016

iXS European Downhill Cup 2016

The last leg of the IXS DH tour before finals in Leogang

The fifth leg of the iXS European Downhill Cup (EDC), held in Les Deux Alpes this weekend, was the last event before the finals at Leogang (AUT) in September.

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Tour de France enters last week a tour rider in lavender fields of provence

Tour de France enters last week

Yet more drama in the 2016 Tour as week three begins

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.

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What's on in Les 2 Alpes winter 2018/19 What's on in Les 2 Alpes winter 2018/19

What's on in Les 2 Alpes winter 2018/19

With music festivals, parties, races and endurance challenges there really is something for everybody

As always there is a full programme of events running from the start to the end of the season. Many of these will be familiar to regular visitors, and you might even have planned your holiday around one of them.

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Les 2 Alpes World Record attempt torchlit descent world record torchlit descent

Les 2 Alpes World Record attempt torchlit descent

A good effort, but no place in the Guinness Book of records this time

Location
Les Deux Alpes

On Wednesday, Les Deux Alpes attempted to beat the world record for the largest ever torchlit descent on skis. Thousands of torches were ready, the people from Guinness were there to officiate and count, and a large crowd was gathered on La Toura ready for the ski down in the dark.

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Les 2 Alpes Enjoy the Glacier 2016 a snowborader in a competition

Les 2 Alpes Enjoy the Glacier 2016

October half term holidays on the glacier

The glacier in Les 2 Alpes opened this weekend and in the region of 3,000 people arrived in resort to get their first skiing and snowboarding of the season done.

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Murray Buchan Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Murray Buchan Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

One Team to Sochi Murray Buchan

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.

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What's On in Les 2 Alpes August 2018 What's On in Les 2 Alpes August 2018

What's On in Les 2 Alpes August 2018

Summer skiing, family activities & a cycling event comes to town

August in Les Deux Alpes has it all, with events to suit all ages and abilities. From family festivals, to adrenaline fuelled summer skiing, take a look at some of the best the month has to offer.

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2017 Snow Trail Running Events in 2 Alpes runners at twilight

2017 Snow Trail Running Events in 2 Alpes

A weekend of trail running on the snow this January

Location
Les Deux Alpes

Now in its fifth year, the Deux Alpes Night Snow Trail has become something of a fixture on the resort’s calendar. A growing number of trail running aficionados are choosing their skiing holiday dates each winter to allow them to compete in the race.

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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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Switch it up a gear for TDF 2016 tdf pic of peter sagan in green jersey

Switch it up a gear for TDF 2016

A look at who's who in this years Tour de France

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.

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1st rest day Tour de France 2016 a cyclists winning a stage of the tour de france 2016

1st rest day Tour de France 2016

More drama over the weekend in the World's biggest cycle race

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.

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