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Roxy’s Lisa Wiik @ the BEO

January 19th, 2008 by Lisa Wiik

Alexis and Lisa

Lisa & Alexis

Time for Burton European Open again! Its always fun to come back to Laax where I had my first ever big contest in 2000. Wow, its already 8 years ago!

I was surprised when I saw all the snow on the trees on my way up to Laax. Last year it was just green fields all over the place…. Hope this season will be whiter then last year ☺

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Who moved on to the next level at the BEO halfpipe?

January 14th, 2008 by Andy

Burton European Open Halfpipe Qualification Overview

Image courtesy of Sander Taphoorn Photography

Today some clouds moved in over the Crap Sogn Gion Halfpipe but that couldn’t stop the 20 men and 4 women that made the cut in Laax’s icy superpipe to move into Wednesday’s halfpipe event. Amongst those lucky 20 are some guys that are well known faces on the tour.

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Burton European Open Men’s SS qualifications while the big dogs train the pipe

January 13th, 2008 by Richard

BEO 08 Slopestyle - Wouter De Lang (C) Marcel Lämmerhirt

Today the skies opened up after 2 & 1/2 ft of snow dumped on Laax over the past 24 hours. The junior competitions in slopestyle and halfpipe went down on Friday and Saturday, and today we saw the qualifying runs for the up-and-comers, and the big-dogs heating things up in some training sessions. Read the rest of this entry »

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