| Chairlift named for Lassila as season kicks off |
| 14 June 2010 |
| Olympic Winter Institute athletes and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders Lydia Lassila, Alex Pullin, Joh Shaw and Katya Crema helped kick off the 2010 ski season at Mt Buller over the weekend.
All four Vancouver Olympians were guests at the OWI’s Masquerade Cocktail Party on Sunday evening, a fundraiser for the Institute, and also took part in other events where they were happy to tell the story of their Olympic experiences and their plans for the future.
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| OWI Deputy Chair elected to FIS Council |
| 07 June 2010 |
| Deputy Chairman of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia Dean Gosper is the latest Australian to win a key position in global sport.
Gosper, son of International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Kevan Gosper, and President of Ski & Snowboard Australia, has been elected to the International Ski Federation (FIS) Council which controls skiing and snowboarding worldwide. [more] |
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| Vancouver Olympians celebrated in Sydney |
| 17 May 2010 |
| The success of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympics teams was celebrated in Sydney over the weekend, at a welcome home function hosted by the Australian Olympic Committee.
The night featured speeches from Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates, Vancouver Olympic Team Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman and Gold Medallist Lydia Lassila. [more] |
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| AIS Program Review 2009-2010 |
| 05 May 2010 |
| Summary of results from the AIS Winter Sport Programs in 2009-2010. [more] |
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| Most successful Olympic Winter Games year |
| 05 May 2010 |
| Vancouver 2010 provided a brilliant conclusion to the Olympic Winter Institute’s 2006/7-2009/10 quadrennium, as Australia’s winter sports athletes collected a record medal haul.
For the first time, the nation could proudly claim three Winter Games medallists, as well as a string of other top ten placings. [more] |
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| Lassila and Bright share Ski & Snowboard Australia top award |
| 05 May 2010 |
| Vancouver 2010 gold medallists Lydia Lassila and Torah Bright are the joint recipients of the Ski & Snowboard Australia Athlete of the Year award for 2010.
It was the second consecutive award for Lassila, who set a new Olympic record in claiming aerial skiing gold and also jumped to a world record score on her way to a World Cup victory in Deer Valley in the lead-up to the Games. [more] |
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| Second consecutive World Cup win for Crawford |
| 21 March 2010 |
| Holly Crawford has ended her season with a second consecutive World Cup snowboard half pipe victory.
Riding at the World Cup finals in La Molina, Spain, Crawford collected the third victory of her career, climbing to the number three ranking in the world in the process.
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| Pullin number two in the world after World Cup silver medal |
| 20 March 2010 |
| Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin has become the world’s number two snowboard cross rider after claiming a silver medal in the final event of the season.
Pullin continued his great elimination round form in the Spanish resort of La Molina, qualifying in second place behind World Cup leader Pierre Vaultier of France.
The 22-year-old AIS scholarship holder then blitzed his opposition in the early rounds of the final, winning his round of 32 encounter, his quarter-final and semi-final before narrowly going down to Vaultier in the final. [more] |
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| Second win to Crawford |
| 14 March 2010 |
| Holly Crawford has collected the second World Cup halfpipe victory of her career, taking gold in Valmalenco, Italy. [more] |
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