"There is an opportunity to consolidate funding to focus on certain winter sports, " he admitted.
The festival has also contributed to Heilonjiang's growing reputation as a winter sports playground.
CairnGorm Mountain's operations manager Colin Matthew forecast a bumper winter sports season back in August.
The republic is keen to develop its tourist industry and winter sports are particularly popular.
Summer temperatures in the capital, Ashgabat, hover around 45C but there are two large winter sports stadiums.
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Unluckily for the town's winter sports, swine flu is expected to die down only when the snow melts.
Kansas City looks pretty good in comparison, an upscale market of 1.9 million people with no winter sports teams.
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In Italy over half the winter sports resorts are below 1, 300 meters.
And winter sports are driving much of the city's booming convention business.
The multi-million dollar ski industry has yet to face up to the possibility of reduced winter sports and in impact on the local economies.
That is true for nearly all of the winter sports, like skiing and skating, as well as for ones like field hockey, swimming, and tennis.
On Monday, the sports news was a flurry of week-long victories for Italians in winter sports and the fifth consecutive victory for favorite son, Giorgio Rocca.
It is this growing conviction of the economic potential of winter sports, combined with a fierce local pride, that explains why the city went to such lengths to secure the winter Olympics.
"We can't quite believe it, but what is clear is we are now one of the leading winter sports nations in the world, " says Anderson, trying his hardest not to laugh out loud.
The Disneyfication of America's winter sports looks unstoppable.
It remains the highlight of a career full of highlights for Tomba, now the patron of an Italian Winter Sports Federation project which targets youngsters who will be looking to follow in his giant footsteps.
With the 20th-century boom in winter sports, the unloved blankets of snow that stifled the Walser each winter suddenly became white gold, and villages such as Davos, Klosters and Lech grew into famous ski resorts.
Alonso has now arrived at Ferrari as Massa's team-mate for 2010 and he donned the famous red kit for the first time this week at the team's annual winter sports event at Italian ski resort Madonna di Campiglio.
Dominating the list of winter sports advertisers getting the most bang for their buck were beer makers (Miller, Anheuser-Busch and Coors--no surprise), property insurers (Allstate and State Farm--mild surprise) and office supply companies (Staples, Office Depot and Office Max all made it--bigger surprise).
When my husband and I arrived last December, the peaked roofs were blanketed in snow and hung with icicles, and the lodge's guests were embarked on winter sports: snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and skating on a private rink (complete with a warming hut serving Cognac and cigars).
Early generations of Moncler jackets might have warmed climbers on the world's tallest peaks and downhill racers at the Olympics and the subsequent boom in winter sports tourism of the 1970s helped catapult the label to cult status among the cliquish ski towns of the Alps but its consumer base remained small and essentially European.
With practice areas for figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, snowboarding and speed skating, among others, this network serves as the main East Coast training center for winter-sports Olympians.
The result: a best-ever 34 winter medals, many in obscure sports, such as luge.
The Winter Games boost snow-related sports, but do little for ski resort valuations.
Under the new agreement, all postseason games televised by NBC and Versus (which will be re-branded NBC Sports Network at the Winter Classic) will be aired nationally.
Make sure there are snow tires available for your vehicle before you buy it, says Cox, since there are a few high-performance sport sedans and sports cars for which no winter tires are made.
But not, it seems, in sports-crazy Italy where the Winter Games are being largely ignored.
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