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No snow, no problem: The plastic slope surrounded by sheep that produced Britain's top skier
Dave Ryding, Britain’s most successful slalom skier, trains on a modest dry slope as he aims for a rare Olympic medal in his final Games.
- On Feb. 16, Dave Ryding, British alpine skier, races the slalom in Bormio in his fifth and final Olympics as he retires this season.
- At Pendle in Ribble Valley, Pendle Ski Club's dry slope uses bristly plastic matting with three small rises and is surrounded by roaming sheep.
- Ryding's record shows he developed his technique on coarse surfaces while training in basic clothing, with John Holmes observing his teenage progress, including a Kitzbuehel victory in Austria.
- The club's 600 members, mostly young but some in their 70s, are inspired by Dave Ryding, while children gather on Sunday mornings to watch, and he plans to build a support pathway.
- No one has ever reached the Olympic podium from the dry slopes before; Britain averages 13 days of lying snow a year, and Alain Baxter’s stripped bronze highlights the event’s fraught history.
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The Independent (US)Meet the Olympic hopeful who learned to ski on plastic surrounded by sheep
A modest, 140-meter-long ski slope lies in the heart of Ribble Valley in northwest England and stands out for its plastic matting and sheep roaming all around
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No snow, no problem: The plastic slope surrounded by sheep that produced Britain's top skier
A modest, 140-meter-long ski slope lies in the heart of Ribble Valley in northwest England and stands out for its plastic matting and sheep roaming all around.
·United States
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