1st rest day Tour de France 2016
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.
Read reviews of the best Val Thorens events
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.
Meet Aimee Fuller Slopestyle Snowboarder, stunt double and one of the British Freestyle Snowboard Team.
The London Ski and Snowboard show is for many the first event of the winter. Pick up the latest kit, catch up with friends and enjoy the party. It'll be a couple of months before you can do it for real.
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.
Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.
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.
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.
It's the school holidays, the resort is full of families, and the snow is already deep in resort.
Billy Morgan is one of the Britian's best chances of a Freestyle snowboarding medal at the Sochi Olympics.
Magical March is here with longer, warmer days skiing in the sunshine.
Each week during the winter season on Tuesdays at 18:30, the Val Thorens “Classic and Jazz” Association will put on a free concert in the local church.
So Winter 2016/17 is well and truly underway! Val Thorens was able to open one week early on 19th November 2016 due to a huge dump of early snowfall meaning the slopes were groomed and good to go. The first skiers in resort were able to ski powder in November, an opening weekend treat.
James reports from the ice driving spectacle that is the Andros Trophy. Val Thorens is the first of seven fixtures throughout the alps - gripping stuff, or rather not...!
Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders.
The Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup tour took place last weekend in Val Thorens after a re-scheduled start due to lack of snow in mid-December.
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.
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.
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.