Biker smashes sledding speed record

Bike racer Guy Martin has sped to victory after breaking the world’s gravity-powered sledge record in Andorra for the Channel 4 show Speed with Guy Martin.

The 32-year-old motorbiker and mechanic from Lincolnshire sledded 21mph quicker than the old record, … Read More

Celebrities quit new snowsports show

Celebrity socialite Tara Palmer Tomkinson has dropped out of Channel 4’s new winter-themed reality competition, The Jump.

Last month she told reporters that she felt under pressure as she had been cited as being one of the favourites to win.  … Read More

BBC Sochi trailer released

The BBC has just released a 20 second teaser trailer for the Sochi Winter Olympics.  It features actor Charles Dance as the “voice of Nature”.

It was premiered this evening on BBC1 – in a prime viewing slot, just before … Read More

GB clinches two skeleton medals

Two members of the British skeleton team – Lizzy Yarnold and Shelley Rudman – have just won medals at the Skeleton World Cup in St Moritz.

The two Sochi Winter Olympic medal hopefuls finished second and third.  The race was won … Read More

Schumacher ski video: crash was just 3-6 metres from the piste

Experts have been analyzing the film footage from the camera attached to Michael Schumacher’s ski helmet when he fell and seriously injured his head last month (click HERE for more details of the accident).

Even though he was wearing a … Read More

Breaking news: Lindsey Vonn out of Winter Olympics

Lindsey Vonn has just announced that she will not be able to compete in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi next month.

America’s top woman downhill skier, and the 29-year-old girlfriend of golfer Tiger Woods, has just posted onto her … Read More

New celebrity ski show coming to Channel 4

Big Brother”… “Splash”…. whatever next?

A celebrity snowsports competition?… Surely not!

Actually… believe it or not, one is about to start!

Next month Channel 4 will be broadcasting a new celebrity series called The Jump.  It will feature twelve celebrities, who … Read More

Schumacher photographic evidence

A camera that Michael Schumacher was wearing on his helmet when he was seriously injured in a skiing accident last Sunday has been handed to French authorities in the hopes that it might shed light on what happened.

The seven-times … Read More

Sochi security fears deepen following another terrorist bomb

A suicide bomber blew himself up on a rush-hour electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd this morning, killing 14 people.

It was the second bombing in less than 24 hours.

Yesterday, another suicide bomber killed 17 people at the … Read More

Schumi’s condition remains critical following ski accident

The latest Michael Schumacher report from the Grenoble hospital stated this morning that the F1 racing driver is “still in a critical condition”.

Schumacher suffered a major trauma to the right side of his head, when skiing in the French … Read More