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''Ski Sunday'' is the

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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

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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

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, 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

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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

. The 2008 season started on 20 January in an extended

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slot (Sundays 7pm to 8pm GMT) and was broadcast weekly on

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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

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and entertainment features.Revamped Ski Sunday returns to BBC Two

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, 17 December 2007 The series also offered

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features via the

BBC Red Button BBC Red Button is a brand used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom. The services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's analogue teletext service. BBC Red Button's text services were due to cl ...

service. The 2009 series began on 10 January with a special preview programme presented by Graham Bell covering a summer trek in the

Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...

. The 2009 series-proper started on 18 January, and was again broadcast on BBC2 and BBC Red Button.Winters sports on the BBC
BBC, 10 January 2009 Prior to the launch of the 2009 season, it was reported that the more general

content of the 2008 format was not popular with viewers, and the BBC acknowledged: "we didn't get things quite right last year. Ski racing fans wanted more of the action and our new viewers wanted more adventure."Ski Sunday returns
BBC Blog, 11 January 2009 Consequently, for 2009 the show was divided into two programmes: ''Ski Sunday'' and ''High Altitude''; the former covering ski racing and the latter, "mountain adventure". For the 2010 season, ''High Altitude'' was dropped and a stand-alone ''Ski Sunday'' comprised one half-hour programme weekly, shown around 5pm on

on Sunday evenings. It consisted largely of events coverage, plus a new clothing, equipment and technology slot, with further events covered and a worldwide skiing weather report accessible afterwards via the Red Button digital services. Bell and Leigh continued to present. For the 2011 season, Ski Sunday returned on 9 January 2011 on BBC2 and ran until 2 February 2011 with ''Ski Sunday Extra'' available via the BBC Red Button interactive services. The show's format continued the 2010 approach, focusing on coverage of the unfolding alpine ski racing season interspersed with occasional featured segments on alternative winter sports such as

Crashed Ice Crashed Ice (full official name: ''Red Bull Crashed Ice'') is a world tour in the winter extreme sporting event, ''ice cross downhill'' (or downhill ice cross), which involves downhill skating in an urban environment, on a track which includes ...

downhill skating and snowboard events. The format for the 2012 series remained largely unaltered, continuing to focus on the key alpine ski racing events with extended (and sometime live) coverage via the BBC's interactive service. Short magazine pieces also focused on winter sport personalities (such as Jenny Jones), events (such as

Slopestyle Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features. Points are scored for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks. The disci ...

) and travelogues. In 2013 for its 35th series, former Olympic

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champion

Amy Williams Amy Joy Williams, (born 29 September 1982) is a British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton in 2002 after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath. Altho ...

joined the team.

Theme tune

The

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to the programme is "Pop Looks Bach" by

Sam Fonteyn Samuel Soden (20 May 1925 – 29 August 1991),''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' known as Sam Fonteyn, was an English composer and pianist, whose most significant output was for the Boosey & Hawkes Music Library, for wh ...

, which was also used as the theme tune for the BBC's coverage of the

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...

until the

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Games. In the US, the religion-oriented radio show '' The World Tomorrow'' used ''Pop Looks Bach'' as its opening music during the 1980s. It was first recorded for the Boosey & Hawkes Music Library in 1970, and was not written for the BBC. It has similarities to the opening of Bach's Fugue in D minor, which is referenced to by a church organ in the background instrumentation of the original recording.

References

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