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CIPRA's point of view: The Alps are far too valuable for the Olympics
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Mar 12, 2013
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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sporting events,
sport,
traffic and infrastructure,
regional planning, regional development, land use,
winter sports, skiing areas,
Point of view,
Olympics
The result of the vote held on 3 March 2013 in Graubünden is clear: 52.7% are against the Winter Olympics being held there in 2022. This example shows that there is no desire for gigantism in the Alps.
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...Oh!
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zopemaster
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Feb 15, 2013
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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sport
… The skiers must be able to swish over gleaming white snow, the ice skaters must glide across brilliant white ice and the biathletes shoot through deep white snow drifts. The Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland must be absolutely snow-white.
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Next generation to bear risk of Winter Olympics
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zopemaster
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Dec 12, 2012
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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sporting events,
sport,
winter sports, skiing areas,
leisure and recreation,
regional planning, regional development, land use,
Olympics
The Swiss canton of Graubünden wants to hold a "sustainable" Winter Olympics in 2022. While the many open questions regarding the candidacy have stirred passions in Switzerland, Munich's candidacy is not quite so controversial. But time is pressing.
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Olympic candidacy - a questionable venture?
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zopemaster
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Sep 18, 2012
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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sporting events,
sport,
winter sports, skiing areas,
traffic and infrastructure,
regional planning, regional development, land use,
Olympics
Forecasts estimate that the 2022 Winter Olympics in Switzerland will cost 4.5 billion Swiss francs - or, as experience shows, even more. Is it worth it? In March 2013 the citizens of Graubünden will go to the polls to decide.
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CIPRA's point of view: Torino 2006: a hard lesson - but nothing learned
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zopemaster
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Aug 21, 2012
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Jul 07, 2021 01:08 AM
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winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
regional planning, regional development, land use,
sporting events,
point of view
The Olympic Winter Games 2006 have left a burdensome legacy. The idea is thus to close the loss-making bobsleigh and replace it with an indoor ski slope. Is Turin simply throwing good money after bad?
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Winter tourism: lateral thinking in Savoy
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zopemaster
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Aug 21, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2024 03:26 PM
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winter sports, skiing areas,
sport,
uphill installations,
tourism,
tourism policy, tourism concepts,
tourism
The skiing area of Biot/F sees ever less snow, and the resort is deep in debt. The local mayor now wants to get rid of the lifts and develop other forms of tourism. A visionary decision in the western Alps.
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Olympic bid by Annecy: repercussions underestimated
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Feb 16, 2011
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM
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sporting events,
sport
French environmental protection agencies have said that the "impact of the Olympic Games on the environment are widely underestimated in the application documents".
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Olympic Games: no benefit to the national economy
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Dec 01, 2010
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Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM
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sporting events,
sport,
Olympics
Switzerland is once again discussing its candidacy for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Environmental organisations are warning against the ecological and economic repercussions. Even Marco Blatter, former CEO of Swiss Olympic, has been quoted on Swiss radio, saying that he was glad the 2006 Games were not held in the Valais. He added that in Turin/I the Games had grown out of all proportion. "With all the infrastructure investments Turin cost around CHF 4.5 bn; Vancouver is costing around CHF 6 bn; and Sochi 2014 is officially budgeting for CHF 13 bn," reports Switzerland's SonntagsZeitung.
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The shreds of Turin
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Nov 16, 2010
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Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM
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sporting events,
sport,
tourism policy, tourism concepts,
tourism,
Olympics
Mountain regions are footing the bill for the Winter Olympics - the Winter Olympics bring fame and glory and an economic revival to the regions. For a fortnight. Leaving behind an oversized infrastructure, debts and empty beds. That, in a nutshell, is Turin four years after the 20th Olympic Winter Games.
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An Alpine Museum for Slovenia
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zopemaster
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Aug 19, 2010
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Jul 07, 2021 01:16 AM
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museums / exhibitions,
society, culture,
sport
In early August more than 1'000 mountaineers and mountain enthusiasts attended the opening of the Slovenian Alpine Museum (Slovenski planinski muzej - SPM) in Mojstrana/SI. The multitude of guests who attended underlines just how strong the demand is for such an institution in the Slovenian Alps. Slovenia owes its Alpine Museum first and foremost to Miro Eržen, who fought for the project for 25 years. The new Museum was officially inaugurated by the President of Slovenia Danilo Türk.
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