Hints and tips:
...The story began with Jean Vuarnet, a ski racer from Morzine who invented the position de l’oeuf, an aerodynamic tuck that helped him win Olympic gold at Squaw Valley in 1960....
...understanding of what would sell in the booming postwar American market, Max Hoffman suggested to the Stuttgart carmaker that it build a toned-down, road-going version of its sleek and streamlined W194 racer...
...She’s a dirt‑bike racer whose graduate fashion collection at Kingston University was inspired by motorcycling, horses and caring for the land....
...That book was a frank and groundbreaking account of her transition but in later years she declared herself “sick to death of the whole business”, joking that her death would be marked by the headline: “Sex...
...Cervinia, one of Italy’s biggest resorts, opened on October 24 before closing two days later when an emergency decree closed ski resorts to everyone except professional racers until November 24....
...According to Knight Frank, prices in Chamonix grew 2.3 per cent between June 2017 and 2018....
...Frank Trentmann, author of Empire of Things, points to the accumulation of clothing and electrical items over the past few decades. But the rise also reflects wider social changes, he says....
...Racers traipsed through the debris on foot to resume riding in sub-zero temperatures....
...After only a short time we are heading out into the wide, terrifying northern lagoon, where the water taxis from the airport scream along the deep-water channels and the boy-racers are out with their girls...
...It does not take much to ignite the debate about women racers in Formula One....
...But it was only by walking around the P1 with Frank Stephenson, the design director for McLaren Automotive, that I began to fully appreciate just how much of McLaren’s fabled racing heritage has been absorbed...
...the “big five” of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and Cape buffalo, so the perfect skiing trip to Zermatt demands visits to as many as possible of the “big five” mountain restaurants: Blatten, Fluhalp, Frank...
...Emilio Pucci was an Olympic skier before he created his own line, which includes skiwear; Paul Smith, who sells bikes as well as suits, was a boy racer at the Beeston Road Club in Nottingham....
...The mountain, I gathered, also had plenty to offer the intermediate skier, which, to be perfectly frank, is me....
...Nervous for the racers perhaps, but exciting for those fans who still believe they can reclaim their beloved, but besmirched, sport....
...Rather more daunting than the terrain – where the deep powder was thoroughly exhilarating – was one of the two guides, Frank “The General” Worsham....
...Several executives also joined Sir Frank....
...Frank Timis is back at Regal Petroleum – or at least his appointee, Paul Morgan, is....
...Both are hard, aggressive racers who combine stunning speed with fearless commitment....
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