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Ravens Ski Club is the North East of England's premiere ski racing club. We train at Silksworth Ski Slope in Sunderland every Wednesday from 7-9pm. Ravens has a comprehensive race development programme with five coaching groups and seven coaches. Our race development team train every Sunday from 10-12pm as well as monthly trips to Xscape in Castleford to train on snow. For further details visit our website www.ravensskiclub.co.uk or contact us on 07774843651.

Thursday 21 February 2013

Day 5 in Bormio – snow has eventually fallen (and is still falling)!

    
Hi everyone and welcome to the fifth day of racing and training at Bormio. For the past 2 days we have been forecasting snow which is much needed in this quaint Italian resort. Although it was forecast to arrive last night we woke up to the same scenes as yesterday but were soon seeing snow clouds over Bormio 3000 and flurries of snow at that level.

By lunchtime the snow had made its way down the mountain and was upon us.
The racing today was the last of the junior races and consisted of the U14/U16 slalom for girls and boys and a GS on the Stelvio piste.

As usual course inspections were opened early with racers and their coaches taking the opportunity to check out the icy piste. At the bottom of the slope preparations were in place for another faultless day in the timing cabin as Gillian, Felice and Deb were organising themselves to record the times in the official manner.


Gillian Poth and Deb Manns are able to pose for the photo while Felice, who is from the Bormio race timing team, is too busy concentrating on the job in hand.
All of these folks are volunteering their services. Gillian’s son Robert is one of the top U16 GB racers, while Deb’s direct involvement with her children finished some years ago but her son David is now a coach with Evolution in Austria.


Robert came in first place today in his U16 Slalom competition, well done Robert. Congratulations also to Megan Jenkins who won for the girls U16 and to Alicja Krahelski (pic) who won for the U14 girls and Angus Wills for the boys.





With the snow still falling it looks like a powder day tomorrow so ditch those narrow slalom skis and get your wide boys on!

Fact of the day – Sochi Olympics are just 350 days away.

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Full results are at http://www.englishalpinechamps.org.uk/championships/view/1
and further reports by Racer Ready at http://racer-ready.co.uk/

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