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Event Previews & Reviews from Courchevel

Read reviews of the best Courchevel events

Sky team in paris

British success in Tour de France

After four exciting days of racing in the Alps, Chris Froome emerged victorious in Paris for the third win of his career. Equalling the records of Philippe Thys, Louison Bobet and Greg LeMond who all have three Tour wins under their belts, and becoming Britain's first three-time winner.

Murray Buchan Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.

french air display team

La Patrouille de France in Meribel

Location
Meribel

La Patrouille de France, France's answer to the Red Arrows, painted the skies above Méribel red, white and blue this week in an amazing aerial display.

Flying around the Courchevel Moriond Racing Luge

Flying around the Courchevel Moriond Racing Luge

Location
Courchevel 1650

Courchevel Moriond Racing is the luge track which is a whopping 3km in length and has an impressive 450m of descent into the village of Courchevel Moriond. Discover the ultimate toboggan run that travels under the brand new Ariondaz gondola zooming through tunnels, zipping over bridges and flying around the bends of the insane racecourse.

Ben Kilner Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Meet Ben Kilner one of Britian's best halpipe snowboarders. 

Courchevel in December 2019 – What weather to expect & what to do

December in Courchevel: What's on and weather

December is when the ski lifts are opening and the Christmas holidays are on the horizon.

Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB Park & Pipe Team

How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.

Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Follow the training of our British Olympic hopefuls as they prepare for the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.

Katie Summerhayes Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB

Katie Summerhayes from Sheffield is back on snow for the first time since her ACL injury. She talks about the freeski scene to come out of Sheffield Ski Village and how Woodsy helped to push her when she started out on the European circuit.

Courchevel in February 2020 - What weather to expect & what to do

February in Courchevel: What's on and weather

It's the school holidays, the resort is full of families and it's getting a little warmer.

La Fete de la Musique Video, France

Fête de la Musique is the celebration that takes place every summer solstice on 21st June in cities, towns and villages across France.

A woman is skiing down a snow covered slope

FIS Alpine World Cup Ladies Giant Slalom 2016

On Sunday the 20th of December, the Three Valley resort of Courchevel hosted the FIS Alpine World Cup Ladies Giant Slalom. For the first time in a few year’s team GB was represented by a young lady with a very high chance of making a name for herself amongst the best in the world, Alex Tilley.

people in fancy dress in a race in courchevel

La Frappadingue 2015

La Frappadingue took place on Sunday in Courchevel Le Praz and despite a very grey start the sun actually peaked out to shine on the brave runners. This is a ‘fun run’ of 12km with obstacles. Now, I have done a fair few mud runs in my time in the UK but they do not compare to this!

Highlights of the 2011 London Freeze

The London Freeze is the ski and snowboard event that brings together international live music acts and some of the world's best riders. The two day festival is the last weekend in October and in 2011 we caught up with X-Games medalist James Wooods for a chat about his Olympic hopes.

a cyclists winning a stage of the tour de france 2016

1st rest day Tour de France 2016

As 15,000 people cycled the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2016, from Megeve to Morzine in the Etape du Tour on Sunday, the drama of the actual race was unfolding in the Pyrenees.

What's on in Courchevel for winter 2018/19

What's on in Courchevel for winter 2018/19

Courchevel Tourism hosts some of the best and biggest free events throughout the season and they will not disappoint this winter. With the likes of an epic opening day, lots of festive fun and interesting shows, this season hopes to be one of the most exciting and engaging.

cyclists on a corner of the tour de france

Froome extends Tour de France 2016 lead

Stage 17 of the Tour de France 2016 took the riders from Bern, the capital of Switzerland, to Finaut-Emosson on the Swiss-French border, just around the corner from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.