This February sees Peisey-Vallandry getting behind David Poisson at the Sochi Olympics. He will be on show at 7am on Sunday morning. Ladbrokes see him as rather an outside bet, and is currently placing him at 100-1:
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| David is a keen Peisey-Vallandry fan |
Meanwhile, La Rosiere invites you to join them this Thursday at the front de neige, to support local boy Jules Bonnaire in the Slopestyle. A giant screen, breakfast and an aperatif are promised:
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| Upwardly mobile: Jules was born in Moutiers |
Here's a bit of a ropey video showing Jules in training at the La Rosiere snowpark:
The next two weeks will see many locals will be looking back at Albertville 1992, which included speed skiing at Les Arcs and bobsleigh at La Plagne.
And it's also a time when precisely nobody will be looking forward to Annecy 2018, given that the bid was doomed from the start and got worse as the process continued.
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| Pyeongchang won 63 votes, Munich got 25, with Annecy receiving only 7: more on the sorry tale here. |
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| The Annecy bid saw the La Plagne bobsleigh track making a comeback |
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