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| SkiPresto wrote: |
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maybe they were wearing plastic underwear..... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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and another complaint registered !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I have to admit I thought it was a technical issue rather than a bad cut that ended the show.
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| robboj wrote: |
I am furious that we, the licence payers, actually paid for the Snowboardist to travel to Utah to have a moan about big bad Alta. |
More or less this. I say this as a skier who really likes snowboarding.
If you can afford to ski or snowboard in the states then you are better off than most people in this world. Snowboarders can't ride at alta. -its hardly a travesty now is it?
FFS they spent so much time ranting over this crap that they didn't even acknowledge Sarah Burke. What a joke.
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Recorder failed to work and its not available on iPlayer at the moment... Humpf...
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| Elizabeth B wrote: |
| I have to admit I thought it was a technical issue rather than a bad cut that ended the show. |
Me too, my screen went scrambled. Loved the racing coverage, the coverage of Alta was a bit dull- I'm not really a fan of snowboarding (having boarded for a couple of seasons and then reverted back to skiing full time) but I'm even less of a fan of mountain snobbery. Bit shameful that there are still skiers/resorts out there that haven't caught up with the times but frankly I've got no interest in hearing about them! I wonder if they would allow mono-skiers there?...
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Green Valley, California is a boarders-only resort.
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Bring back high Altitude. I love the racing, but also enjoyed the top gear style mountain fun and games
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dazman, it's not even on iPlayer yet. I assume they're still looking for those last few minutes.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Has anyone been to both Green Valley and Alta? Skiers complain about boarders ruining the snow (bloody slipping down a slope on heels) and boarders complain about skiers ruining the snow (something about creating moguls... I zone out after a while)
Anyway, as there is a skier free resort and a boarder free resort, which has the better snow? It might finally settle who is to blame. Is suspect there is no difference and both sides are to blame for ruining the pristine snow
but it's mainly the boarders 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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another complaint registered
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We're going to catch up with the end on iplayer (soon).
Regarding Alta - as a group skiing with boarders we decided on the day we spent in Alta to split up, which is not a big deal as the other resort is only down the road. However gliding through the trees (it was an amazing powder day) I did spot a boarder, but kept this to myself.
The only thing I didn't like was the lack of any bar on some chair lifts, amazing considering that Americans will sue for the slightest thing.
Back to Ski Sunday, I hope this isn't the start of the programme going downhill (no pun intended) in future years.
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia,
Dont get me wrong I love the racing too but in a list of BBC sports they are likely to cover it is way down there,so to have any programme at all the 'other stuff ' needs to be prominent( they may think it will generate more interest/viewing figures )
Sunday PM is surely prime TV time so we should get something worthy !
I think High Altitude with racing highlights and other related features is the way forward to get more snowsports on TV.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I couldn't get iplayer to work, so was fuming I missed out. Judging by all the above, it was a blessing in disguise. I hope they have a segment on Sarah next week.
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Poster: A snowHead
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They cut it short on the red button replay also!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just watched the red button coverage as I missed main coverage, it also seems to cut off mid piece, frustrating.
As a snowboarder I did find the bit on Alta un-inspiring, although a few funny moments
"snowboarders make a sound like a freight train behind you"
Yeah that's me on my board pal, "choo choo" all the way?!?
etc
Agree with previous posts, only way forward to is re-introduce a high altitude element, downhill racing is amazing, but there's plenty of other stuff which is fascinating going on like the freestyle/mogul comps etc. I was surprised to see HA dropped a couple of years back.
Also find it weird that there's a few anti-boarder themed posts here, while almost everyone agree's there should have been a piece on Sarah B, who pioneered slopestyle & superpipe, which grew out of....wait for it.....the interest in snowboarding freestyle 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| fatbob wrote: |
Alta is for skiers!
Weak sauce BBC with your whiney piece on how unfair it is. PC gone mad. No mention of the fact that boarders can ride 100yds down the road at Snowbird and at about 18 other resorts in Utah. No mention of Sarah Burke either.
& literally chopped mid piece at the end. |
Totally agree, agenda driven irrelevant rubbish even moreso given Sarah Burke was not even mentioned.
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Still not available on iPlayer, either. So much for "Available soon after". Why isn't that just automated - it should be possible to watch it the second that it's finished. FAIL @ the BBC.
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and its still not on iplayer at 2340hrs
EDIT: me and duncang must have been thinking the same thing at the same time!!
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The announcer on South TV apologised for the cut and explained that programmes were now back on time
But I'm surprised that all you snow sports fans hadn't already watched both races on Eurosport. I certainly had and only watched ski Sunday for another watch of it, but it doesn't add much because the BBC use exactly the same images that Eurosport have used.
Obviously Bell doesn't have a commentators booth so it seems he's relegated to doing a voice over on an ajoining piste slightly after each run after he's listened to the experts describe it. I don't know why they bother or why they don't just buy Eurosport's coverage.
I didn't mind the Alta segment as I didn't know about it so it was interesting to find out that there are places still like that.
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Ski Sunday a shadow of its former self. Used to be a great show, with trip and resort reports. Now a hodge podge of competitions which I can watch on Sky Sports, and badly judged non-pieces like the Alta report. A waste of Graham and Ed's good talents methinks. Cop on BBC!
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| 5RED wrote: |
| Ski Sunday a shadow of its former self. Used to be a great show, with trip and resort reports. Now a hodge podge of competitions which I can watch on Sky Sports, and badly judged non-pieces like the Alta report. A waste of Graham and Ed's good talents methinks. Cop on BBC! |
IF Ed and Graham have talent, it isn't in the sport presenting arena!
The program was again poor. I don't know who decides the program format but they do need to sort it out.
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But I'm surprised that all you snow sports fans hadn't already watched both races on Eurosport
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Kind of depends on you having Eurosport doesn't it? Those of us who don't want to fund Murdoch's empire or set up a satellite dish specificaslly to receive alanoolgue german satellite telly are kind of dependent on ski sunday...
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Re Sarah Burke - I assume that after the Kevin Pierce piece they would of had a report on it bearing in mind that her accident occurred in the same spot as KP's. If they were not going to mention Sarah (will we ever find out) then showing the KP piece was in distinct bad taste.
I watch all the races on eurosport but I also enjoy watching Ski Sunday as I dont have Nick Fellows bellowing in the commentary and its nice to see the pieces in the resort and interviews with the racers...
The Alta piece was interesting as it appeared that their coroprate strategy was based upon what 'the regulars want' - thats all and well till they need to attract a new generation of guests.
Pretty crap to cut the show off like that because two guys playing a pub game couldnt finish their game on time.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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nbt, +1
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Really poor show, think its had its day, Ed and Graham are good guys ewhat a waste of airtime and surely they could be better used on a freeride show, slopestyle or similar.........Hannehnhamm race (seen it live on Saturday on Eurosport, and suggest most people who follow ski racing would have likewise), and they garbled over the presentation to the skiers medal ceremony (why, Cuche had just won it for the 5th time and broken Klammers record, doesnt that warrant a look at his celebration?), Alta (super boring bunch of out of touch old-farTS, what relevance has this to 99% of the UK ski/ boarding fraternity?). Kevin Pierce - good topic but dragged out a bit.
Never mentioned Sarah Burke (appalling given her talent and standing in world wintersport).
Then tech fault at the end, whats all that about?
Come on BBC if you read thism please get it sorted..................!! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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iPlayer still saying "coming soon". I guess we'll never see the ending.
No idea what the thinking was behind the Alta thing. It was old news when I was last there about 8 years ago. It was a "so what?" moment that took up valuable time. If you're in Kitz for the FA Cup Final of skiing, surely you do more stuff behind the scenes there, tell us something we don't know.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, +1, live footage and interviews with the racers from Londoner at 2am Sunday morning for example!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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According to both Ed and Graham on twitter they had filmed a Sarah Burke tribute for the end of the showe but it got cut by the scheduling SNAFU
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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They're going to be putting it on iPlayer "soon"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01b6998/Ski_Sunday_2012_22_01_2012/
I was still travelling back from skiing at Cairngorm so would have missed it anyway, but going by the above, the BBC really need to get a grip and sort out the show. Each week the show is on it could be ripped to bits on some of its content. Seems like it's a token gesture.
I also realise the people complain about eurosport timings etc, but at least they managed to show the race live on Saturday morning and stuck to their schedule for it.
Does anyone like snooker?
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Looks like if you still feel strongly you should twitterbomb @BBCAnnaT.
Re the Alta article - you don't have to go very far in any skiing demographic (even snowheads) to find a bunch of reactionary old farts who'll say stuff like snowboarders scrape all the snow off, they make a noise, they sit down in the middle of the piste, they're out of control. What they only got a bit close to in talking to the boarder guy was whether boarders actually give a toss and a bit more of the perspective from the younger hardcore skier crowd. There are plenty of skiers in SLC so Alta is never going to suffer too much from its policy and no mention of the fact that its essentially a traversing resort and most users will welcome anything that keeps the crowds down. The most interesting comment was about the "no frou frou" - it's very deliberately not a check me out in my latest Spyder outfit & WC pisten carvers, eat a Michelin starred lunch on the terrace sort of place so no room for the family friendly Red Bull terrain park, ride up lattechinos either.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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i have no probs recording on my sky box despite the weekly time changes for ski sunday
but at least i get to watch all the super sunday footy
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Not everyone has Eurosport (it's not on Freeview) so the BBC ski racing coverage is very precious.
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What we really need is a dedicated skiing channel. I would pay for the privelige!
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Markymark29, Nah Short & Curlies are finished about 8.......at 2am they'd be up in Flannigans for Fergus and his magic keyboard.
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| flowa wrote: |
| Green Valley, California is a boarders-only resort. |
I don't think it is ,last I heard they'd opened "The Big Air" up to skiiers before lack of business closed it.
I'm sure there was another one in So Cal that tried aswell and ended up allowing skiers.
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