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New Zealand's Adam Hall and Corey Peters finish run at 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:36:48 GMT

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Friday, March 1, 2013

With the IPC Alpine World Championships officially ending Wednesday with the conclusion of the national team non-medal friendly competition a day after the competition's official closing ceremony, New Zealand's Adam Hall and Corey Peters have completed their run. Their country did not compete in the team competition as they did not have enough skiers to form a team.

With their first event the second race of the competition, Hall finished ninth in the men's standing Super-G with a time of 1:16.65, 4.16 seconds off the winning time set by Austrian Markus Salcher. Peters finished the Super-G with a time of 1:18.95 in the men's sitting group for a 22 place finish in a field of 25 skiers.

Hall had his best finish at the Championships on the third day of competition when he earned a bronze medal in the Slalom. Peters did not fair as well, earning a Did Not Finish (DNF) during his second run in the Slalom and consequently not ranking.

In the Super Combined, Hall finished ninth with a combined run time of 1:49.87, 7.43 seconds slower than first place finisher Austrian Matthias Lanzinger. Peters's problems continued, as he earned a DNF during his first run.

Peters finished tenth in the Giant Slalom, with a combined run time of 2:37.73, 21.93 seconds slower than Japanese gold medalist Taiki Morri. Hall skipped the event.

Despite New Zealand's small size, the country has a history of doing well at the Winter Paralympics. Most recently, the country saw success when Hall won a gold medal in the men's standing event at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.

Adam Hall, New Zealand. 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships at La Molina in Spain. Day 2 of competition. Super-G final.
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2013 IPC Alpine World Championships in La Molina, Spain on Super combined competition day for the first run in the men's standing event.
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2013 IPC Alpine World Championships at La Molina in Spain. Day 3 of competition. Slalom final. Adam Hall of New Zealand.
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Nathalie Carpanedo finishes wild card run at 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:58:30 GMT

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Carpanedo following her Giant Slalom finish
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Carpanedo following her DNF slalom run at the 2013 World Championships in La Molina, Spain. Carpanedo was a wild card entry.
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Wednesday, Spanish LW10-2 classified sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo finished her wild card run at the IPC Alpine World Championships competing as a member of the Spanish team in the international team friendly held the day after the closing ceremonies for the World Championships. Carpanedo's team finished tenth in a field of ten teams, which saw the Austria finish first, team 1 for the United States finish second, and Russia finish third.

Carpanedo started the day with 232.13 International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing points, and finished her team race with a time of 26.46 seconds. Because teammate Úrsula Pueyo had a faster time of 20.32, Carpanedo's time was not used in tabulating Spain's overall ranking as only one time by a female skier was required.

Beyond Wednesday's event, Carpanedo competed in two individual races at the Championships. Her first was the Slalom, where she earned a Did Not Finish in her first run. 36 of the 116 competitors had the same result in that race. Her other race, the Giant Slalom, saw her finish in tenth in the women's sitting group with a combined run time of 4:41.30, 2:11.60 minutes slower than first place finisher Austrian Claudia Loesch and 1:09.02 minutes slower than the ninth place finisher Gyöngyi Dani of Hungary. Four skiers in the women's sitting group failed to finish their runs, and 45 of the 117 total skiers in the Giant Slalom failed to rank in the race.

Carpanedo is one of the founding member of the first women's disability ski team in Spain. Created with the support of Teresa Silva, Fundación También insisted the team be for women to encourage their participation in disability sport. Fundación También supports a number of other sports including bicycling, sailing, table tennis, canoeing and scuba diving. Carpanedo's Fundación También teammate Irene Villa attended the final award ceremonies in support of her teammate and winter Paralympic sport in Spain.

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Australia's Mitchell Gourley finishes up at 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:19:51 GMT

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Friday, March 1, 2013

With Australia not having a team compete at Wednesday's IPC Alpine World Championships in La Molina, Spain, Mitchell Gourley finished his turn at the competition where the 2010 Winter Paralympian failed to earn a single medal.

On the first day of competition, Gourley finished tied in thirteenth place with Swiss skier Thomas Pfyl in the downhill with a time of 1:36.40, 6.66 seconds off the winning time set by Austria's Markus Salcher. In the Super-G event on the second day of competition, Gourley finished in eleventh place with a time of 1:16.90 seconds, 4.41 seconds behind winner Salcher. On the third competition day, Gourley earned an eighth place finish in the Slalom with a combined run time of 2:09.66, 3.37 seconds slower than seventh place finisher Andrzej Szczesny of Poland and 13.81 seconds behind winner Vincent Gauthier-Manuel of France. 28 skiers started the Slalom event but only 13 managed to place. Gourley had his best finish in the Super Combined event where he finished in fifth position with a combined run time of 1:45.34, 0.15 seconds slower than fourth place finisher Russian Alexandr Alyabyev and 2.90 seconds slower than Austrian winner Matthias Lanzinger. On the last day of competition, Gourley successfully finished his first run in the Giant Slalom but finished with a Did Not Finish as a result of his second run. Gourley is next set to compete at the Sochi Test event.

Gourley was the only Australian competitor at the Championships. His Australian teammates, including Jessica Gallagher, Melissa Perrine, Toby Kane, and Cameron Rahles Rahbula, missed the Championships either because they needed a small break from this season's competition schedule or to give themselves additional time to train for the Sochi Test event coming up next month.

2013 IPC Alpine World Championships at La Molina in Spain. Day 3 of competition. Slalom final. Mitchell Gourley of Australia
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Mitchell Gourley of Australia talking to a race official following his run in the Super Combined
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Mitchell Gourley of Australia. 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships at La Molina in Spain. Day 2 of competition. Super-G final.
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Super G competition day at the 2013 IPC World Championships in La Molina, Spain. Mitchell Gourley riding a bike.
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Austria wins friendly team competition at end of 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:05:38 GMT

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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The IPC Alpine World Championships wrapped up yesterday in La Molina, Spain with a friendly, non-medal counting team event won by Austria. The winner was tabulated based on the fastest score for a visually impaired skier on the team, a female skier on the team, and a male skier on the team. The Austrian team included Markus Salcher, Roman Rabl, and Claudia Loesch for times counted, with Philipp Bonadimann, Thomas Grochar, and Martin Wuerz also competing. The team event included ten teams representing eight countries, with the United States and Canada having two teams each and 54 skiers competing.

The United States team 1 came in second with Tyler Walker, Mark Bathum, and Alana Nichols times counting, and Heath Calhoun, Ralph Green, and Allison Jones also belonging to the team. Russia came in third with Ivan Frantseva, Alexandr Alyabyev, and Mariya Papulova having their scores counted. Hosts Spain finished last with Jon Santacana, Óscar Espallargas, and Úrsula Pueyo having their times counting, and Gabriel Gorce and Nathalie Carpanedo also members of the Spanish team.

The next major competition ahead of the 2014 Winter Paralympics is the test event in Sochi, Russia in March of this year.

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Thomas Grochar on his run
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Solene Jambaque of France on her run
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Marie Bochet, five IPC Alpine World Championships gold medal winning skiing, on her run
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Canadian visually impaired skier Viviane Forest and Chloe and her guide Lauzon-Gauthier on their run
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Austrian skier Roman Rabl
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Gabriel Gorce and his guide on their run for Spain
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Visually impaired Canadian skier Mac Marcoux and guide BJ Marcoux experience problems on their run
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Stephani Victor skis for Team USA 2
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Jon Santacana and Miguel Galindo ski for Spain
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France finishes 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships on top of medal ladder

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:27:22 GMT

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

On the final day of individual competition at the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships in La Molina, Spain, concluded today with the Giant Slalom, France pulled ahead of Austria to sit atop of the medal ladder with seven gold medals, two silver medals, and three bronze medals to Austria's seven gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals. Canada earned the most overall medals at the World Championships with fourteen total medals, two more than France.

France's medals today included a gold by Marie Bochet in the women's standing event. Bochet captured all five individual gold medals available in her group at these World Championships. Vincent Gauthier-Manuel also earned a gold for France, in the men's standing group.

Claudia Loesch earned a gold for Austria in the women's sitting group. It was Austria's only medal on the day.

Canada's medals today included a silver by Viviane Forest and her guide Chloe Lauzon-Gauthier in the women's visually impaired group, a silver by Mac Marcoux and his guide BJ Marcoux in the men's visually impaired, a bronze by Chris Williamson and his guide in the same group, a bronze by Kimberly Joines in the women's sitting group, and a bronze by Alexandra Starker in the women's standing group.

Spain, who had not earned a medal since the second day of competition, increased their medal count by one when Jon Santacana and his guide Miguel Galindo Garcés earned their third gold of the competition after two competitions in a row where they earned Did Not Finishes (DNF) during their second runs.

The final day of skiing saw 117 skiers start, with only 72 getting ranked at the end. 28 skiers earned DNFs during the first run, and nine earned DNFs during their second runs. Five did not start the first run, and one did not start their second run. Two skiers were disqualified in their second runs.

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	FRA	7	2	3	12
2	AUT	7	1	3	11
3	RUS	4	4	3	11
4	JPN	3	3	1	7
5	ESP	3	0	0	3
6	GER	2	7	2	11
7	SVK	2	2	1	5
8	CAN	1	5	8	14
9	USA	1	1	1	3
10	SUI	0	2	4	6
11	GBR	0	2	3	5
12	ITA	0	1	0	1
13	NZL	0	0	1	1

Viviane Forest and Chloe Lauzon-Gauthier of Canada hug following their silver medal run in the Giant Slalom
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Alexandra Frantseva and Pavel Zabotini of Russia hug following their gold medal run in the women's visually impaired Giant Slalom
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Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte Evans of Great Britain make their way down the course in their second run of their bronze medal winning performance in the Giant Slalom
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Jon Santacana and Miguel Galindo Garcés embrace Chris Williamson and his guide Robin Femy following Santacana's gold medal winning run
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Santacana and Galindo at the end of their second run in the Giant Slalom
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Marie Bochet of France gets a hug following earning her fifth medal of the competition
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Marie Bochet after crossing the finish line
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Marie Bochet and German silver medalist Andrea Rothfuss embrace
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Austria regains medal leadboard after fourth competition day of 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:26:22 GMT

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Philipp Bonadimann of Austria at the end of his first run in the Super Combined event
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Yesterday, following the Super Combined event at the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships, Austria took the lead again in the medal count having earned six total gold medals across four days of competition. France is tied with Austria in the overall medal count.

Austria's medal tally yesterday included a gold by LW11 classified Claudia Loesch in the women's sitting event, a gold by LW4 classified Matthias Lanzinger in the men's standing event, and a bronze by LW11 classified Philipp Bonadimann in the men's sitting event.

Following her gold medal winning, Loesch told the media she was super happy she won, and she had a really good slalom run. She went on to say she usually finishes in second and this was a surprise for her.

France's medal count increased with a gold by LW6/8-2 Marie Bochet in the women's standing, and a bronze by LW4 classified Cedric Amafroi-Broisat in the men's standing.

Spain's vision impaired skier Jon Santacana, who won Spain's only two medals in the competition, failed to finish his second run in the Super Combined. Following the race, he was visibly upset. He had finished the first run in first place by a tenth of a second ahead of eventual gold medalist Chris Williamson and guide Robin Femy of Canada. Williamson hugged silver medalist Miroslav Haraus of Slovakia, and Santacana when Santacana and guide Miguel Galindo Garcés returned to the finishing area after Santacana's fall. Spain's other entrant in the men's visually impaired Super Combined event, Gabriel Gorce and guide Arnau Ferrer, finished three thousandths of a second out of medal contention with a combined run time of 1:47.93. The bronze medalist, Ivan Frantseva and guide German Agranovskii‎ of Russia, had a combined run time of 1:47.90.

At the finish of each competitor's second run, most are requested to go to doping control to insure they are not taking any banned substance. The 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships are scheduled to continue today.

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	AUT	6	1	3	10
2	FRA	5	2	3	10
3	RUS	3	3	3	9
4	GER	2	5	2	9
5	SVK	2	2	1	5
5	JPN	2	2	1	5
7	ESP	2	0	0	2
8	CAN	1	3	5	9
9	USA	1	1	1	3
10	SUI	0	2	2	4
10	GBR	0	2	2	4
12	ITA	0	1	0	1
13	NZL	0	0	1	1

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France leads medal count after third competition day of 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:37:51 GMT

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Marie Bochet following her first slalom run
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Vincent Gauthier-Manuel on the course in his first slalom run
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Yesterday in La Molina, Spain on the third day of competition at the IPC Alpine World Championships, slalom gold medal winning French skiers Marie Bochet and Vincent Gauthier-Manuel assisted in putting France in the medal count lead. This brought the total number medals won by French skiers to eight.

New Zealand, with only two skiers competing, earned its first medal of the competition when Adam Hall won a bronze in yesterday's slalom event. His teammate Corey Peters finished his first run in the slalom but notched a Did Not Finish (DNF) for his second run and did not rank.

Spain moved down the medal table after their medal favorite, Jon Santacana and guide Miguel Galindo Garcés, failed to finish his second run in the slalom. Other Spanish skiers also failed to perform yesterday with wildcard entry women's sit-skier Nathalie Carpanedo and men's sit-skier Óscar Espallargas earning a DNF during their first runs on a day that saw thirty-six skiers earn DNFs on their initial run down the course. Men's visually impaired skier Gabriel Gorce and guide Arnau Ferrer were disqualified in the first run for missing gate 61. Standing LW2 classified skier Úrsula Pueyo finished ninth and last in her group.

Yesterday was originally scheduled to be a day off for skiers, but the slalom event was cancelled Saturday due to poor conditions. Today is scheduled to be the Super Combined event.

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	FRA	4	2	2	8
2	AUT	4	1	2	7
3	GER	2	4	1	7
4	RUS	2	2	2	6
5	SVK	2	1	0	3
6	ESP	2	0	0	2
7	USA	1	1	1	3
7	JPN	1	1	1	3
9	CAN	0	2	4	6
10	SUI	0	2	2	4
11	GBR	0	1	2	3
12	ITA	0	1	0	1
13	NZL	0	0	1	1

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Austria leads medal count after second day of 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:12:31 GMT

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Following the second full day of competition at the IPC Alpine World Championships in La Molina, Spain yesterday, Austria led the medal race with three gold medals, a silver, and a bronze. Markus Salcher won gold in the men's standing downhill on Wednesday, with Matthias Lanzinger also making the podium in the bronze medal position. Claudia Lösch earned a gold in the women's sitting Super-G event. Slacher and Lanzinger went gold/silver yesterday in the men's standing Super-G to round out Austria's medal total.

Solene Jambaque of France in the Super-G event at the 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships in La Molina, Spain.
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France leads in the total medal count with six, two of each kind. Yohann Taberlet won a bronze in the men's sitting downhill. Marie Bochet won a gold and Solene Jambaque won a bronze in the women's standing downhill. In the Super-G, Bochet and Jambaque went gold/silver. Taberlet earned a silver in the Super-G.

With only eighteen medals available a day, a number of countries have failed to make the medal podium. They include the Netherlands, with Anna Jochemsen finishing ninth in the women's standing class in the Super-G yesterday, and Finland with Katja Saarinen finishing tenth in the same event. Australia's Mitchell Gourley finished eleventh in the men's standing Super-G. Czech competitor Oldrich Jelinek finished sixteenth in the men's sitting Super-G. Arly Velasquez of Mexico finished fifteenth in the men's sitting Super-G. New Zealand's Adam Hall finished ninth in the men's standing Super-G. Poland's men's visually impaired skier Maciej Krezel and guide Anna Ogarzynska finished thirteenth in the Super-G. South Korea's Jong Seork Park finished twenty-fourth in the men's sitting Super-G. Turkey's Erik Bayindirli finished nineteenth in the men's sitting Super-G.

Competition is scheduled to resume tomorrow with the slalom event after events were cancelled today because of predicted poor weather.

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	AUT	3	1	1	5
2	FRA	2	2	2	6
3	ESP	2	0	0	2
4	GER	1	2	1	4
5	RUS	1	1	1	3
5	USA	1	1	1	3
7	JPN	1	0	1	2
8	SVK	1	0	0	1
9	CAN	0	2	1	3
10	GBR	0	1	2	3
10	SUI	0	1	2	3
12	ITA	0	1	0	1

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Spain starts 2013 IPC Alpine World Championships with first and fifth place finishes

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:59:44 GMT

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

With the first day of racing completed earlier today in La Molina for the 2013 IPC World Championships, the Spanish team started the competition with a first and fifth place finish in the downhill event in the men's visually impaired group. Jon Santacana and guide Miguel Galindo Garcés came in first; Gabriel Gorce and guide Arnau Ferrer finished fifth, three seconds behind Santacana and fourteen hundredths of a second behind fourth place Russian Ivan Frantsev and his guide German Agranoskii.

The rest of the Spanish team is scheduled to arrive tomorrow with women's standing skier Úrsula Pueyo, men's sit skier Óscar Espallargas, and women's sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo scheduled to compete in the Slalom and Giant Slalom competitions, with the Slalom scheduled to take place on Saturday and the Giant Slalom for next Tuesday.

Other countries also started the IPC World Championships off well with Germany in the medal lead with one gold, silver, and bronze. The United States was second with one gold and a silver. France was third with one gold and two bronze medals. Austria was fourth with one gold and a bronze. Slovakia and Spain were fifth with one gold each. Canada was seventh with one silver and one bronze. Switzerland, Russia, and Italy were eighth with one silver each. Great Britain finished out the medal earning nations with one bronze.

Gorce finishes his race
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Gorce and Ferrer cross the line
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Gorce comes to a stop
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Gorce in the media area following his race
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Gorce heads towards the course exit following his race
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Gorce and Ferrer come down the downhill course
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Santacana and Galindo come down the course
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Santacana comes to a stop following his race
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Santacana is stopped
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Santacana and Galindo talk immediately following their race
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Santacana and Galindo talk to the media
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Santacana and Galindo in close up
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Leaderboard showing provisional finishes
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2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships preparations underway

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:14:51 GMT

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Ramon Moliner, Ivan Tibau, Mariona Masdemont and Enric Ticó at Tuesday's flag exchange
Image: IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships La Molina 2013.

Preparations are underway ahead of the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championship, with a flag exchange taking place Tuesday, volunteer recruitment ongoing, USParalympics unveiling a new uniform for their team, skiers like the United States's Jon Lujan actively training for the event and other skiers competing in preparation for the Championships in a World Cup event Wednesday.

Tuesday in La Molina, Spain, the president of Governmental Railways of Catalonia, Enric Ticó, and the mayor of Alp, Ramon Moliner, were gifted with flags by representatives of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Catalan Government at a ceremony in Colet Museum of Barcelona at one of the first official events ahead of the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championship, which starts next week. As of Wednesday, event organisers were still seeking volunteers to assist with running the Championship. The opening ceremonies are scheduled for next Tuesday.

Entering the event, skiers had the opportunity to qualify through eight World Cup events held with only two disciplines on the program, Giant Slalom and Slalom. The first four were held in Sestriere, Italy, with the most recent four all being held in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Standing female French skier Marie Bochet has won six World Cups ahead of the World Championships and is considered by event organizers as a favorite in the standing group. Russian standing skier Alexey Bugaev is also considered a favorite by organisers as he won two Slalom and one Giant Slalom World Cup competition. In the women's sit-ski, German Anna Schaffelhuber is considered the favorite having prepared for the Championships by winning five of the eight World Cup events. On the men's sit-ski side, Japanese Takeshi Suzuki and Swiss Christoph Kunz both earned three World Cup victories in the lead up to this competition. In the women's visually impaired group, Slovak Henrieta Farkasova will enter the competition with five World Cup victories. On the men's side, Spanish Jon Santacana is favored to win with three Giant Slalom and one Slalom victory during this year's World Cup events in the lead up to the World Championships.

British Combined Services Disabled Ski Team coach Mark Scorgie has noted that this year's European ski season has been problematic with weather interfering with most competitions. Poor weather conditions continued Wednesday Rogla IPC Alpine World Cup, with the first Giant Slalom run canceled because of high winds.

The World Championships includes over 270 skiers, guides, coaches and support personnel from 28 countries including Spain, France, Australia, Ukraine, Netherlands, Croatia, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Turkey, Belgium, Norway, Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, Slovakia, Czech Republic, United States, Austria, New Zealand, Sweden, Hungary, and South Africa..

The Spanish team includes blind skier Jon Santacana and his guide Miguel Galindo, and blind skier Gabriel Gorce and his guide Arnau Ferrer. Both vision-impaired skiers are scheduled to compete in the Downhill, Super G, Super Combined, Giant Slalom, and Slalom competitions. Also on the Spanish team are LW2 classified standing skier Úrsula Pueyo, LW12-1 classified sit skier Óscar Espallargas, and LW10-1 classified sit skier Nathalie Carpanedo who qualified as a wildcard entry. Pueyo, Espallargas, and Carpanedo are all scheduled to compete in the Slalom and Giant Slalom competitions. Accompanying the team are to be coaches Javier Gutierrez, Jordi Carbonell, and Andres Gomez, medical staff including Pablo Marquez and Josep Barrachina, and technical staffer Josep Bort.

Jones competing in the Super G at the last year's IPC Nor-Am Cup
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The United States team consists of Seattle, Washington-based vision-impaired skier Mark Bathum and his Colorado Springs-based guide Jessica Smith; Park City, Utah-based vision-impaired skier Danelle Umstead and guide Rob Umstead; retired Army and Clarksville, Tennessee-based Heath Calhoun; Brooklyn, New York-based Ralph Green; Colorado Springs-based Allison Jones; Palmer, Alaska-based Andrew Kurka; Burlington, Vermont-based Stephen Lawler; retired Marine and Littleton, Colorado-based Jon Lujan; Farmington, New Mexico-based Alana Nichols; Wenham, Massachusetts-based Laurie Stephens; Park City, Utah-based Stephani Victor; Franconia, New Hampshire-based Tyler Walker; and retired Coast Guard and Campton, New Hampshire-based Chris Devlin-Young.

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Slovakia's Alena Kanova defeats Sara Head, taking bronze in class 3 table tennis

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Bronze medal match between Great Britain's Sara Head and Slovakia's Alena Kanova
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London, England— Slovakian fans were out in force at London's ExCeL earlier today, watching the 23-minute table tennis match between Great Britain's Sara Head and their country's Alena Kanova. The battle for bronze in the women's single class 3 match ended with Kanova winning by 3 sets to 1 to take the medal.

Head took an early lead, winning the first set 11–2 before going down to Kanova in the second set by 5–11. Head kept the scoring closer in the third set at 4–7 at one point, before losing 5–11. The British fans dominated Slovakia in terms of volume, chanting "G-B! G-B!" in support of their player, with the occasional shout of "Go Sara!". The Slovaks ruled the stands in terms of waving large flags. A loud chant from Great Britain's fans stopped abruptly after Kanova scored. Head could not come back in the fourth set, losing 3–11 and seeing Kanova take the bronze.

In the gold medal match on the main table, Austria's Doris Mader lost to Sweden's Anna-Carin Ahlquist, with Ahlquist receiving loud support from her teammates and coaches. She won 11–4, 11–6 and 11–5 in straight sets.

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European cold spell kills hundreds

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:39:37 GMT

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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"Deadly Cold Snap: European Deep Freeze Refuses to Relent" — Spiegel Online, February 7, 2012

"Europe’s deadly cold snap should ease from next week, UN agency says" — UN News Service, February 7, 2012

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"Europe’s homeless dying in arctic conditions" — Euronews, February 3, 2012

"Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine" — BBC News Online, February 3, 2012

Laura Smith-Spark. "Europe's cold snap claims more lives" — CNN, February 3, 2012

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Allied WWII spy Nancy Wake dies aged 98

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:25:00 GMT

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Nancy Wake photographed in 1945

Nancy Wake, a spy the German Gestapo nicknamed "The White Mouse" during WWII because of her evasion of them and who once topped their most-wanted list, has died. She passed away Sunday while hospitalised in London within days of turning 99.

Born in New Zealand, she was raised in Australia but ran away when she was sixteen. By the 1930s she was a journalist in Paris when, in 1933, she took a trip to Austria to witness Nazi crimes against Jews. After interviewing Adolf Hitler, she chose to dedicate herself to being a thorn in his side. "In Vienna they had a big wheel and they had the Jews tied to it, and the stormtroopers were there, whipping them. When we were going out of Vienna they took our photos. That was my experience of Hitler," she later said.

	I used to think it didn't matter if I died, because without freedom there was no point in living
—Nancy Wake

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940, with Wake and her rich husband, businessman Henri Fiocca, joining the Resistance of the German occupiers. The duo helped fleeing soldiers and Jews in their journeys to Spain, with Wake's roles including spy, courier, and saboteur.

Her husband convinced her to flee to the UK in 1943; upon arrival in England she joined British Special Operations. Wake and Fiocca never met again. The following year she parachuted back into France to give Resistance fighters a weapons delivery, but only found out after the nation's subsequent liberation that Fiocca had been captured by the Gestapo. They tortured and killed him through his defiance: he refused to give up his wife.

The most decorated Australian servicewoman - and one of the most decorated among the Allies - Wake's honours included the Legion D'Honneur (France's highest award), the UK's George Medal, the US Medal of Freedom, and being made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Wake made her way back to Australia in 1949 and failed in repeated attempts to be elected to parliament. Since 1957 she has lived in England, married to ex-UK Royal Air Force pilot John Forward. She has been in a veterans' retirement home since 2003.

"Nancy Wake was a woman of exceptional courage and resourcefulness whose daring exploits saved the lives of hundreds of Allied personnel and helped bring the Nazi occupation of France to an end," Australian PM Julia Gillard said in tribute, calling her "a devastatingly effective saboteur and spy". Warren Truss, leader of the Australian National Party, called her exploits "the stuff of legend." "[A]ll Australians feel very proud of this wonderful woman," he said.

New Zealand's Veterans' Affairs Minister Judith Collins shared the sentiment, calling Wake "a woman of exceptional courage and tenacity, who cast aside all regard for her own safety and put the cause of freedom first". Wake's stance on freedom was clear: "Freedom is the only thing worth living for," she said after the war. "While I was doing that work, I used to think it didn't matter if I died, because without freedom there was no point in living."

Her story inspired Charlotte Gray by author Sebastian Faulks, later made into the movie of the same name. Wake retained pride in her work; "I have only one thing to say: I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more," she would later say of her fighting.

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Azerbaijan win 2011 Eurovision Song Contest

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Eurovision Song Contest

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