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		<title>Skier Ted Ligety goes to extremes on the slopes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as Ted Ligety was about to soar over the edge of a colossal cliff, his ski hit a rock jutting out of the snow. Not enough to knock him down, yet enough to throw him off balance as he went over the side. What happened next, well, the camera attached to Ligety&#8217;s helmet captured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flora Brings Skiing to Northwest Alaska</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lars Flora stands behind a drying rack of sheefish, a popular springtime fish in Northwest Alaska, while Elvina, an Selawik eighth-grade skier in his NANANordic program, looks on. (Photo by Charlie Renfro) While most of his cross-country skiing brethren kicked up the last bits of snow at Spring Series in Craftsbury, Vt., Lars Flora was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skier Ted Ligety dapples in extreme skiing during offseason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#013; &#013; &#013; Just as Ted Ligety was about to soar over the edge of a colossal cliff, his ski hit a rock jutting out of the snow.&#013; &#013; &#013; Not enough to knock him down, yet enough to throw him off balance as he went over the side.&#013; &#013; &#013; What happened next, well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed flying: Paragliding and skiing down active Mount Etna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#013; Two Italian speed flyers have successfully completed their attempt to descent Europe&#8217;s biggest and most active volcano. Speed flying is a combination of paragliding and skiing &#8211; they can reach speeds of up to 100 kph. Felice Boccanegra and Jody Barratin and their team have become the first people to glide down Sicily&#8217;s Mount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpine skiing-Hirscher suffers minor injuries after car crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austria&#8217;s overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher escaped with a few bruises and a sore neck following a crash that destroyed his car. While driving from Abtenau to Annaberg, in his home region south of Salzburg, the 23-year-old was forced to swerve to avoid a head-on collision with a car on the wrong side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Eola to host water skiing event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO &#8211;  The last time it happened was decades ago, but now water skiing is coming to Lake Eola. The city of Orlando announced a major extreme water sports festival called Soaked is coming to the downtown lake in September. It&#8217;s one of the premiere water skiing events in the world. &#8220;Why have we got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skiing faithful flock to Independence Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Lyons, left, of Vail, and Aspen native Matt Lanning, now of Breckenridge, prepare to ski during a snow squall Friday morning at the summit of Independence Pass.]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle man survives plunge into B.C. crevasse without a scratch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHISTLER, British Columbia &#8211; A Seattle man is lucky to be alive after he plunged more than 160 feet down a deep crevasse while back-country skiing Friday near Whistler Resort in British Columbia. Nikolai Popov of Seattle was rescued a few hours after his fall &#8211; surviving the ordeal without a scratch. But rescuers said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland’s weather: skiing season to last till end of June</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#013; &#013; &#013; Published on Wednesday 9 May 2012 00:00&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; BY JUNE, even Scotland should be basking in warm summer sunshine, but at the country’s ski resorts winter looks set to linger with a prolonged cold snap that could keep skiers on the slopes until the end of next month. &#013; &#013; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water skiing champ Kristi Overton Johnson joins N.C. Hall of Fame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Thompson did marvelous things with a basketball. Jim Catfish Hunter was a pitching craftsman in pinstripes for the New York Yankees. Its an impressive group in the hall. But few, if any, was more dominant in their chosen sport than Overton, the Greenville native who jumped in the Pamlico River at age 4 and [...]]]></description>
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