Event Previews & Reviews from Verbier

Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.

Highlights from the final day of the Freeride World tour 2011, which took place on the epic Bec des Rosses in Verbier. Each year the Freeride World Tour finishes in Verbier. If you can make it you can watch the planets best skiers and snowboarders in action.

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.

February was dominated by the Alpine Skiing World Championships, held every second year, which kicked off in St Moritz on 6th February. Over 13 days, 589 athletes from 76 countries competed in eleven competitions in front of 165,000 spectators.

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.

With the whole of Verbier shut down in May (well most of it) its time to recharge the batteries and look forward to the summer events.

Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.

The ski lifts are preparing to open and the Christmas holidays are on the horizon.

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.

Dom Harington is a Halfpipe Snowboarder from Leeds who has missed the last two Olympics due to injuries after winning the Europa Cup Halfpipe. Sochi is probably his last chance to be part of the Olympics and he's giving it everything he has.

Spring is officially in the air, just don't forget your sunscreen!