1st rest day Tour de France 2016
As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.
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As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.
After four exciting days of racing in the Alps, Chris Froome emerged victorious in Paris for the third win of his career. Equalling the records of Philippe Thys, Louison Bobet and Greg LeMond who all have three Tour wins under their belts, and becoming Britain's first three-time winner.
There's plenty going in in Les Gets & Morzine this week, as summer has arrived and most of the bars & restaurants are now open.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival showcases short films made by normal people who have big dreams. When I say normal, I suppose they’re not really. They undertake feats that most people only ever see in films or imagine doing in their dreams.
All good things must come to an end and after ten hugely successful years the Cavern 24/7 film festival is going to be having its final fling this year.
They came and they conquered… Despite temperatures close to 40 degrees, 11,158 cyclists completed this year’s Etape du Tour which ended in Morzine.
Despite a cancellation on the day of qualifiers, the finals went ahead as planned.
So far we've seen not only some fantastic racing, stunning scenery and nail-biting sprints from the 2016 Tour de France, but we've witnessed several unusual crashes, the yellow jersey literally running up Mont Ventoux and more than one incident of an over-enthusiastic fan causing disruption.
Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.
The snow is falling and it looks like March is going to be a bumper month in the Portes du Soleil.
With just over three weeks left of the summer season, there are still plenty of things going on to keep you entertained in and around Morzine.
As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.
Since it first began in Whistler in 2004 Crankworx has grown to be one of the biggest events in the mountain bike calendar, with extra dates added in Rotorua, New Zealand and France.
The Urban Roof n’ Slopestyle is a new concept in freestyle mountain biking. A competition inspired by freestyle snowboarding events that take place in Avoriaz in the winter, it takes dirt and freeride mountain biking and mixes them with parcours to create a new style of street riding.
It's been a great week in Morzine with the Tour de France arriving on Saturday but there's still plenty of things to see and do in Les Gets & Morzine in the week ahead..
Crankworx found a new European home this summer, moving from Les 2 Alpes to Les Gets, where it will stay for at least the next three years and what a success it's been...
The Portes du Soleil is gearing up for a major summer of biking but following closely behind it is a quiet buzz around the region's trail running.
Meet Aimee Fuller Slopestyle Snowboarder, stunt double and one of the British Freestyle Snowboard Team.