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Sports
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...
weekly magazine-style
television show
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed b ...
covering
winter sports
Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold a ...
, broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sundays in a late afternoon or an early evening time-slot. It began in 1978, and is currently presented by
Ed Leigh
Ed Leigh (born 15 July 1975) is a British sports presenter and commentator.
Broadcasting career
Ed Leigh is part of the presenting team for the BBC2 show ''Ski Sunday'' and regularly works for Red Bull TV on a host of live events from skateboardin ...
and
Chemmy Alcott
Chimene Mary "Chemmy" Crawford-Alcott ( Alcott; born 10 July 1982) is an English former World Cup alpine ski racer. She competed in all five disciplines: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom and combined.
Alcott competed in four Winter ...
with reporters
Graham Bell, Tim Warwood,
Jenny Jones (snowboarder)
Jenny Jones (born 3 July 1980) is a British professional snowboarder who became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in a snow event after winning bronze in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Early life
Jones was born in Dow ...
,
Aimee Fuller
Aimee Nicole E. Fuller (born 21 July 1991) is a British slopestyle snowboarder who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Early life
Fuller was born in Farnborough, and grew up in nearby Keston. S ...
and
Phil Young.
History
Originally launched in 1978 on the back of the
1976 Winter Olympics
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
, later forming part of ''
Sunday Grandstand
''Grandstand'' was a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside ''BBC Sports Personality of the Year''.
The last editions of ''Grandstand'' were broadcas ...
'' and presented and commentated on by British broadcasters including
Ron Pickering
Ronald James Pickering (4 May 1930 – 13 February 1991) was an athletics coach and BBC sports commentator.
Biography
Pickering was born in Hackney. His father was a sign fixer. He became head boy at West Ham Secondary School (later to become ...
and
David Vine
David Martin Vine (3 January 1935 – 11 January 2009) was an English television sports presenter. He presented a wide variety of shows from the 1960s onwards, most notably his coverage of major snooker tournaments for the BBC.
Early life
Born i ...
(who presented the show for 20 years until he took semi-retirement in 1996), the show focused primarily on the
blue riband
The Blue Riband () is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest average speed. The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910. ...
events of
downhill skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...
and
Special Slalom. Following the final edition of ''Grandstand'' in early 2007, ''Ski Sunday'' became one of the longest-running BBC Sports television programmes still being broadcast; the 2008 series was the 30th.
Format
As the British appetite for
alpine skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...
changed over time, the programme experimented with different formats and time-slots. In recent years the show has been presented by, amongst others,
Hazel Irvine
Hazel Irvine (born 24 May 1965) is a Scottish sports presenter.
Early life
Irvine was born in St Andrews, Scotland. Educated at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh, she achieved an MA in History of Art at the University of St. Andrews, and compe ...
,
Matt Chilton
Matt Chilton is a sports journalist, commentator and presenter. He has worked for Eurosport since 1992, and for BBC Sport since the mid-nineties. Matt is a ski racing specialist and has been a contributor to Ski Sunday since 1996. He has been a ...
, former British Olympic skier
Graham Bell and
Ed Leigh
Ed Leigh (born 15 July 1975) is a British sports presenter and commentator.
Broadcasting career
Ed Leigh is part of the presenting team for the BBC2 show ''Ski Sunday'' and regularly works for Red Bull TV on a host of live events from skateboardin ...
. The 2008 season started on 20 January in an extended
prime time
Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...
slot (Sundays 7pm to 8pm GMT) and was broadcast weekly on
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream a ...
for eight weeks. The 2008 revised format covered most forms of competition skiing and
snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic ...
as well as covering
travelogue
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Genres
* Travel literature, a record of the experiences of an author travelling
* Travel documentary
A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program, or online series that describes travel in general or ...
and entertainment features.
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, 17 December 2007 The series also offered