Alpina Gets Prestigious Design Award For Elite 3.0

Alpina Gets Prestigious Design Award For Elite 3.0

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The Alpine Elite 3.0 boots line just received arguably the world's highest appraisal in the field of industrial design: Red Dot Product Design Award. It's a big deal, the covered Red Dot is often seen gracing promo pictures of the winning models. To give you an idea: apart from Alpina 3.0s, the award this year also went to AirPods Pro and IPhone 11Pro to name but a few. To put it bluntly, the Red Dot is turning a product into a coveted symbol of its owner's ...coolness? taste? deep pockets ( it only goes to top-of-the-line products in range)? all of the above? Well you decide, but we are totally in support of that trend when you buy because you dearly want that thing, not just because you find it…
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Swiss Team Announces Squad Selection  2020/21

Swiss Team Announces Squad Selection 2020/21

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The Swiss ski federation is traditionally among the first to announce the squad selection for the upcoming season - pretty much the moment the last one is over. Corona-crisis or not, the Swiss have decided to keep with traditions Only three athletes made it to the national team this time around: Dario Cologna, Nadine Fähndrich and Laurien van der Graaff. No surprises there - all three had strong last season. [caption id="attachment_15560" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Fähndrich/ van der Graaff duo is among the strongest in the world. Here they are captured right after the silver finish in Dresden, their second Team Sprint podium of the season[/caption] [caption id="attachment_15561" align="alignnone" width="1920"] 2019/20 wasn't the best season for the Olympic champion, only one individual podium - but, rumor has it, Cologna was experimenting…
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Time For Summerski?

Time For Summerski?

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With all the skiing world on lockdown, the question of How to commence preparations for the next season? will start growing on everyone's mind very,very soon. Summerski might have a shot at if not solving the problem, then at least buying time till top skiers could go back to their glaciers of choice, currently uniformly shut. We wrote about Summersk project here and here There is not much to add - except that the project might finally have a chance to go big. Now that we all learned that travelling is not a right but a form of luxury it would be a good time to think of Plan B.
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Swedish Telecoms Giant Pays Crazy Money  For Champions League And Why Is It Relevant

Swedish Telecoms Giant Pays Crazy Money For Champions League And Why Is It Relevant

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Telia, Swedish telecommunications giant and owner of several media platforms just bought the UEFA Champions League television & streaming rights for three years starting from 2021. You know how much Telia paid? SEK 1 billion per year - that's just shy of 92 million euros! That's for Sweden only. The previous rights'holder, NENT Group, reportedly paid less for the whole Scandinavian region I.e. Denmark, Norway and Sweden. 92 million euros / year to show some soccer in the country that doesn't have much representation in the tournament and certainly stands no chance of ever winning it! Why is this news on cross country skiing resource? First, to make a comparison: we don't think SVT, Swedish public broadcaster and Telia's top rival for audiences' eyeballs pays more than 5% of that…
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Introducing My Sponsors:   Lisa Unterweger

Introducing My Sponsors: Lisa Unterweger

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Continuing "Introducing my sponsors" series. Lisa Unterweger from Team Austria is blessed to have the whole team of supporters behind her: I am very lucky with the team supporting me. There are three main sponsors in the #teamuw, as I call it. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHbCwvHN-8/?igshid=128oqo30crary Of course the biggest one is my "headband sponsor“ the Olympiaregion Seefeld. Guess there is no further explanation necessary, as we all know it from the FIS Nordic World Championships in 2019. I’ve been cooperating with them for 2 years now and it was a huge honor for me to start at the World Championship at home, with the host as a partner at my side. I was really proud to represent them. But my relationship with Seefeld in Tirol goes far more back than that. In…
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