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Rules of the "Ski Down Challenge" Competition

ARTICLE 1 THE ORGANISING COMPANY AND A PRESENTATION OF THE COMPETITION

Eurosport, a stock company with a registered capital of 15,000,000 EUROS, the head office of which is located at 3, Rue Gaston et René Caudron - 92798 Issy les Moulineaux Cedex 9 - France, acting through its legal representatives, domiciled in this capacity at the said registered office, has decided to organise a competition entitled " Ski Down Challenge " (hereafter referred to as the "Game") from December 28th 2009 to March 31st 2010 via the Internet, on the following websites: eurosport.yahoo.com, de.eurosport.yahoo.com, www.eurosport.fr, com.eurosport.yahoo.uk, com.eurosport.yahoo.es, com.eurosport.yahoo.it , www.eurosport.ru, www.eurosport.pl (hereafter "the Website(s)") in the section entitled "Game Zone".

ARTICLE 2 TAKING PART AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES

By taking part in the Competition, the participant (hereinafter referred to as “the Competitor”) accepts unreservedly the present Rules and the principle of the Competition. Anyone breaching one or more of the articles of the present Rules shall be deprived of the possibility of taking part in the Competition and also of any prize that he or she might otherwise have won. The Game, which entails no obligation to make a purchase, is open to any person residing in Europe, with the exception of those persons having a legal link with the organising company Eurosport, and their families. Any form of participation in the Competition other than those expressly defined by the present Rules is excluded and shall not be taken into consideration by the Organising Company.

ARTICLE 3 ACCESS TO THE RULES OF THE COMPETITION

Every Competitor has access to the Rules of the Competition from the Internet Sites making it possible to take part in the Competition. The present Rules are filed with SCP SIMONIN - LE MAREC - GUERRIER, 54, rue Taitbout 75009 PARIS, under whose control the various operations shall take place. The present Rules shall be sent free of charge to anyone who asks the Organising Company for them at the following address: EUROSPORT- Services Jeux - 3, rue Gaston et René Caudron - 92798 ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX Cedex 9 - France. The cost of the stamp for sending the request for the Rules shall be reimbursed at the French Post Office’s applicable ordinary rate merely by such reimbursement being requested from the Organising Company.

ARTICLE 4 HOW THE COMPETITION WORKS

Players must select the game in the "Game Zone" pages of one of the internet sites. Once on the game's mini-site, they must follow the instructions.

ARTICLE 5 DETERMINING THE WINNERS

Winners will be drawn among the top 200 users Once a Winner has been identified, Eurosport shall give the details that the Competitor gave to Eurosport on entering the Competition to Milka so that they can contact the Winner by email and define with the Winner the details for delivering the prize that he or she can claim. Eurosport shall send the details of the Winner (as given by the Competitor on entering the Competition) to Milka within ten (10) days after the end of the Competition. Any Winner who has not answered within one (1) week, i.e. seven (7) days, following sending of the email informing them of their winnings shall lose the right to enjoyment thereof. Milka may award the prize to another Winner. Competitors are fully liable for the validity of the information that they give at the time of their entry, in particular of their email addresses. The prize shall be made available as quickly as possible after the results have been given and the Winner has been declared. Under no circumstances may either the Organising Company or Milka be held liable for delays in making prizes available or for impossibility for Winners to claim enjoyment of their prizes because of circumstances beyond the control of the Organising Company and/or of Milka. In particular, the Organising Company and/or Milka may, under no circumstances be held liable in the event of the prizes being lost and/or damaged by the postal authorities or by any other similar third party service provider, and, more generally, if the Winners do not receive their prizes. In the event that the prizes cannot be sent by post, the conditions under which they may be collected shall be specified to the Winners by any means at the convenience Milka.

ARTICLE 6 RIGHT TO NAME

The Winner accepts expressly and free of charge that his or her surname and forenames may be published by the Organising Company. To this end, the Winner authorises in advance and without any financial consideration in return, the Organising Company to use, reproduce, and represent his or her name, address, and photograph for the purposes of promoting the Competition or the business of the Organising Company on any communications media. This option may not constitute an obligation incumbent on the Organising Company.

ARTICLE 7 NAMED DATA AND INFORMATION

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 26 of Law No. 78-17 of 6th January 1978 relating to data-processing, to files, and to civil liberties, Competitors enjoy a right of access to the computer files concerning them and a right to rectify the data concerning them, and they may ask for their details to be struck off and no longer disclosed to third parties. Such a request may be made by ordinary letter to the Organising Company: EUROSPORT - Services Jeux - 3, rue Gaston et René Caudron - 92798 ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX Cedex 9 – France. The automated processing of the named data of the Winners has been declared by the Organising Company to the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (National Commission for Data-Processing and Civil Liberties). The Winner recognises and accepts that any named data he or she might have disclosed to the Organising Company in order to take part in the Competition shall be passed on to Milka in order to enable that Milka to send the prize to the Winner.

ARTICLE 8 COMPETITION FREE OF CHARGE AND WITH NO OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE

Since the Competition should not entail any cost for the Competitor, the Organising Company shall reimburse any expenses related directly to taking part in the Competition (costs of connection to the Site www.eurosport.fr only) to any Competitor who so requests. The written request shall be sent, within a time limit of 45 days following the participation of the Competitor (as evidenced by the postmark), to EUROSPORT, Services Jeux - 3, rue Gaston et René Caudron - 92798 ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX Cedex 9 - France, accompanied by evidence of the Competitor’s identity, evidence of the expenses incurred (copy of the invoice), and bank account or postal account details. The reimbursement of the Internet connection is calculated on the basis of four minutes of local-rate peak-time call (average time of connection to the Site in order to take part). Competitors using unlimited Internet connections of the subscription package type (ADSL (broadband), cable, leased lines, etc.) may not obtain reimbursement of their Internet connection time on the above-mentioned terms, since the connection to the Site www.eurosport.fr in order to take part in the Competition generates no financial payment incumbent upon them. Any request for reimbursement shall be processed within a maximum time limit of two months after receiving all of the requested information, and reimbursement shall be by bank transfer. The postal expenses entailed by the reimbursement request may be reimbursed on written request enclosed with the request for reimbursement, at the ordinary rate applicable at the time of the request. The Organising Company reserves the right to check the validity of the requests by any means and to reject any incorrect or incomplete request. Only one request for reimbursement per Competitor and per Competition shall be accepted.

ARTICLE 9 PRIZES

30 cow caps
20 ski boots bags
30 backpacks
30 ski helmets
1 set of Ski jacket + pants
2 pairs of Ski

The prize shall be sent to the Winner alone by Milka alone. The prize shall be accepted as announced. Since the prize is under the full responsibility of Milka and its partners, Eurosport may not be held liable for any failure in the prize or in awarding thereof. Eurosport declines any responsibility relating to the prize having a defect or having caused damage. The prize may not be exchanged, taken back, or be the subject of any financial consideration or financial equivalent. Where applicable, the date of use of the prize shall be notified on issue thereof. Insofar as the prize consists in travelling, the Winner shall alone take the necessary steps to ensure that he or she satisfies any customs and regulatory conditions for leaving the territory and for entering the foreign territory, and, to this end, shall, in particular hold a passport or an identity card (including a visa), as the case may be, that is currently valid and that remains valid throughout the period of the said travelling/staying. Any claims concerning the manner in which the prize is made available may not consist in claiming any financial consideration and/or any financial equivalent. It is specified that neither the Organising Company nor Milka shall provide any additional service as regards cover or guarantee, assistance, taking up of rights to enjoyment, or making the prizes available, the awarding of the prizes merely consisting in giving the prizes as described. Therefore, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the description of the prizes, all ancillary expenses relating to the awarding of the prizes or general expenses related to taking possession of the prizes – in particular travel expenses, eating expenses, accommodation expenses, etc., shall remain borne by the Winners. No cover or reimbursement shall be due in this regard. In any event, the terms on which the prizes are made available shall be as notified by Milka to the Organising Company. Milka reserves the possibility of replacing the prize by a prize of equivalent value, without it being possible for any claim to be lodged in this regard. The Organising Company and Milka expressly decline any responsibility for any incidents or harm of any type that might arise due to enjoyment of the prize and/or due to use thereof, and this is recognised expressly by the Winners. The Winners therefore waive the right to any claim and any recourse against the Organising Country and/or Milka or any one of the companies of the groups to which they belong as regards the prizes, in particular the quality thereof or any consequence arising from taking possession of a prize.

ARTICLE 10 RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESERVATIONS

Responsibilities: The Organising Company may not be declared responsible for any total or partial malfunctions of the Internet that might or might not have given rise to failures in administration, security, input, integrity, or management of the Competition. In particular, they may not be declared responsible for any error, omission, imperfection, interruption, deletion, transmission delay, failure of communication and connection circuits, destruction, damage, or technical failure of the fixed or mobile terminal of the Competitor, or for any other problem relating to telecommunications networks, to on-line mobile terminals and computers, or to servers or access providers. The Organising Company reserves the right to exclude from taking part in the present Competition any person disturbing the progress of the Competition. It reserves the right to take legal action against anyone who has cheated, defrauded, manipulated or disturbed the operations described in the present Rules or who has attempted to do so. A winner who has cheated shall automatically forfeit any right to obtain any prize. The Organising Company reserves the right, in particular for compelling reasons and/or for reasons of force majeure, to shorten, extend, or cancel the present Competition in part or in full if circumstances so require. It may not be held liable in such a case. Prior notice of such changes may however be given by any suitable means. In the event of force majeure, of unforeseeable circumstances, or of exceptional circumstances (fire, flood, natural disaster, ill-intended intrusion into the computer system, strike, calling into question of the financial and technical equilibrium of the Competition, etc.), and even if such circumstances are its own responsibility (subject to it having acted in good faith), the Organising Company may terminate the Competition in full or in part. The present Competition shall be cancelled in the event of winding-up of the Organising Company or of Milka, or in the event of force majeure, without the Competitors or the Winner being entitled to claim any compensation in that regard. The Rules may be altered at any time by the Organising Company, in compliance with the principles set forth above in this respect. Checks and Reservations: Any information disclosed by the Competitors and by the Winner, in particular their details, shall be considered as null and void and shall not be taken into consideration if it includes an anomaly. Any cases not provided for by the Rules shall be settled as a last resort by the Organising Company. Neither the Organising Company nor the Milka may be held liable for harm of any type (personal, physical, material, financial, or other harm) arising during the course of participation of a Competitor in the Competition.

ARTICLE 11 APPLICABLE LAW

The present Rules are governed by French Law. In order to be taken into account, any dispute or objection relating to the Competition shall be made at the latest thirty (30) days as from the closure of the disputed Competition Session, in writing only and sent to the following address:

Société Eurosport SA
Département Jeux
3, rue René et Gaston Caudron
92798 Issy-Les-Moulineaux Cedex 9

The Organising Company shall decide on any matter relating to application of the present Rules or not settled by them. Except for cases of fraud by the Competitors and in issuing of the prize that is under the sole responsibility of Milka, any dispute that might arise during performance of the present Rules shall be settled preferably out of court between the Organising Company and the Competitor. Any dispute that might arise on interpreting the present Rules shall be referred expressly to French Law and to the sovereign judgement of the Organising Company, and, as a last resort, to the judgement of the competent Courts of the jurisdiction of the Paris Appeals Court.
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30 cow caps
20 ski boots bags
30 backpacks
30 ski helmets
1 ski jacket + pants pack
2 pairs of ski
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THANK YOU!
05-03-2010 by Maria Riesch

Unbelievable what’s going on right now! At the moment I only want to thank you very much! Firstly for crossing your fingers for me during the Olympic Games and secondly for the amazing amount of best luck wishes I got from you. I am really proud to have such amazing fans! Thank you!

Yours
Maria

After Cortina
29-01-2010 by Maria Riesch

At Cortina not everything went so perfect for me. After a great fault at the Super-G I only could achieve the 15th place.  But the downhill the day after went even better. Lindsey again wasn’t beatable but I had a great race and I am really satisfied with my second place.  At the Giant Slalom on Sunday I surely could have achieved a better place after my 5th position at the first run. But after a great fault at the second run I only could achieve the 8th place. As you know this position isn’t really bad for me at a giant slalom.
At the overall Welt Cup results I am in a good rank (56 points less than Lindsey), but as there are still a lot of speed races  it will be difficult to keep this position…
The week in Cortina was really funny! We had great weather and marvellous conditions!
Tomorrow we will travel to St . Moritz. I have really good memories of this place, as I achieved some podium places there. It would be great if that would work out again next weekend!
There will take place the last World Cup competitions before the Olympics and of course I want to achieve some more self confidence for the upcoming Olympic Games.
Of course I will write to you before I leave for Canada.

See you soon!

Yours Maria

3 podium places
22-01-2010 by Maria Riesch

At the last three races I was on the podium! It’s really working fine for me at the moment.  Only the Night Slalom in Flachau was a small disappointment for me (despite my 2nd place). As my sister and I were first and second after the first run, we wanted to keep it like- we had been nearly a second faster as the others. But unfortunately at the Slalom everything changes in a moment. So that at the end Sue was disqualified and I made a big fault at the second run, so that we had to cede the victory to the Austrian Marlies Schild.
Despite that the Night race was really fun, because the atmosphere was really amazing.
The last weekend in Maribor couldn’t have been better. Particularly my first podium place at the Giant Slalom I was awaiting for so long was balm for my soul. It wasn’t possible to be better as Kathrin Zettel and so the World Cup stays exciting. The decision will be made at the end of the season in March at the final in Garmisch.
Today I finally have a free day at home in Garmisch. I am really happy to travel tomorrow as the overall World Cup leader to Cortina d’Ampezzo. There we will have a slalom and two speed races at those probably Lindsey will get back her leadership at the World Cup.
But: Of course I will give everything to keep up with her!

Greets,

Maria

Weekend of missed chances
15-01-2010 by Maria Riesch
After an emotionally quite exhausting speed week in Haus im Ennstal I am now in Flachau, where tomorrow will take place the Night-Slalom.
Well, the weekend in Haus was really one with “missed chances”. The 3rd place at the downhill on Friday was okay, but my race was everything else but perfect. Maybe I could have been better than Lindsey on that day. I knew that I had enough time saved, but at the race I was too tense and so I did mess up some of the curves. So I got the 7th place and no podium place. The Super-G on Sunday was my biggest disappointment. I had a really good race and I noticed that I was really in good time. Just before the finish line a mishap occurred and I missed again a top result. My exasperation was big and I only wanted to go away from the stadium as fast as possible!
Today we had Slalom training on the Reiteralm. The target for me was to manage the change from the long Downhill ski (2,10m) to the short Slalom ski (1,60m) in a short time. We had a great prepared slope and we also got a ski-doo for our disposal, which took us faster to the start again as the long ski-lift-cabin. The training was great and I had a great feeling on the short skis.

Keep your fingers crossed for me at the race tomorrow evening. I am really looking forward to it. At night-races is always a really special atmosphere and to race in Austria is always great, as the atmosphere is incomparably! Nevertheless: I want the red tricot back!

Greetings,
Maria
Vancouver is coming closer!
11-01-2010 by Maria Riesch
We just made it- the year is over. I am looking back on 2009 really positively- after all I had my greatest career highlight in February at Val d’Isere when I won the gold medal in Slalom. The last year was from as sportive and private perspective really good for me. But the most exciting and unsettled challenge is waiting- Olympic Games in Vancouver! 6 weeks to go and I am looking forward to it! In January the World Cup calendar is really full and of course I hope I will have good results at the next races to get the necessary self-confidence for Olympia.
The end of the year in Lienz wasn’t really good for me, but such days are normal and as an athlete you have to cope with those defeats…
I will spend New Years Eve with my sister Sue and some friends. First we will have Fondue, on midnight we will cheers to the New Year and then I will go to bed early, as I want to pass by at the ski jumpers in the morning. Afterwards I will drive to Maria Alm and train for the Slalom to get hopefully back my good shape.  After the training we will travel to Zagreb, where the next Slalom World Cup race will take place on the 3rd of January.

I wish you all a healthy and happy New Year 2010!

Sincerely

Yours Maria
Are
18-12-2009 by Maria Riesch

Its short-time after midnight and I am finally back at home from a quite turbulent, but at least partially successful weekend in Are. As our charter arrived in Zurich, we had after arrival at 8 PM still a three hours drive home…

It’s a pity that I again couldn’t manage to show what I can at the Giant Slalom on Saturday.  I really had a good race until my disqualification and I am trying to think positively about it and to take those positive thoughts to the next races.
Especially in the second run the Slalom was really hard to ski, because of the fog the visibility was really bad and as leader after the first run I had to deal with the bumpy slope. I definitely didn’t want to be disqualified again and so I am quite pleased with my second position and the additional 80 World Cup points. More over it was really particular to stay on the podium with my sister Susanne!

Apart from that the journey to Sweden was quite unspectacular. Due to the charter flight we exceptionally  hadn’t troubles with our luggage and all got their bags.

For me it starts again on Tuesday morning when we travel to Val d’Isere where we will challenge three races after two day of training. As I won last February the gold medal at the Slalom, I will go back to Val d’Isere with a good feeling and I am looking forward to the races.
I hope you too!

Yours Maria

Munich-Kühtai-Are
14-12-2009 by Maria Riesch

After two exhausting weeks with only one ski-free day (the journey day from USA to Canada) I arrived yesterday in Munich- unfortunately with three hours delay.
The weekend in Lake Louise was really good for me. As I couldn’t have so many speed-trainings in summer and Autumn I was really anxious how I would cope with the Downhill and Super-G. I already have achieved some times a podium place in Lake Louise and I really love the track, so that I had a really good feeling. Specially that I was only 35 hundredth behind my friend Lindsey Vonn pleased me. Lindsey has dominated the downhill discipline in the last two years and won a lot of races with more than one second winning margin… Also the 5th place at the Super-G was okay, in particular because I was quite exhausted on Sunday as I had caught a cold because of the extremely cold weather at the Canadian Rockies ( 30 degrees under zero!)

Tomorrow morning I travel to Kühtai (nearby Innsbruck-Austria) for the Slalom training and on Thursday I take the flight from Zürich to Östersünd/Sweden. At the weekend we have the next 2 technical competitions in Are.

See you soon!
Cordially,
Maria

Speed-Week in Canada
04-12-2009 by Maria Riesch

The race in Aspen didn’t work out that good for me. But I have to say, that the conditions were really hard. The slope was like a skating ring and so also the best skiers had troubles with the grip. I am not really upset about my performance at the Giant Slalom. At the first round I made a quite big mistake, but I could manage the iced slope quite well so that I finished as 14th. For being my “problem discipline” I finished better than in Sölden.

Of course for the Slalom I expected more, but especially in the upper part of the first round I had problems and could hardly avoid to fell off- In the second round I was better, but my two seconds behind the first weren’t recoverable. My 5th rang was behind expectations, but looking at it from another perspective: Of the overall world cup favourites (Vonn, Pärson, Görgl)  I did the most points that weekend.

At the moment I am in Denver at the Airport hotel. Tomorrow morning we take off to Calagary and will drive to Lake Louise from there. On Tuesday we will start with the downhill training! I am looking forward to the speed-week in Canada!

Greets!
Maria

Colorado
26-11-2009 by Maria Riesch

Puh, I am quite tired! But fortunately we finally arrived in the USA. The event in Moscow was definitely worth stress and strains. It was an amazing atmosphere and a great experience to take part at a race in the middle of a big city. Despite I was a little bit upset with my  three-hundredth of a second behind Therese Borssen, I am quite pleased with my 2nd position.  We arrived at Munich on Sunday and stayed there, as we had to meet our colleagues the next day at 8 o’clock in the morning to get the flight to the US.  Well, I just arrived and I am fine, but my luggage seems to have stayed in Frankfurt. I now borrowed the most important things from my sister for our first  training in Vail tomorrow. Tomorrow evening my whole stuff  will hopefully arrive here…
We will train here the next three days, before we leave for Aspen on Thursday for the next race. I won’t party much at my birthday tomorrow, but it has been like this the last ten years- so no problem with that.

 

Greets from winterly Colorado!

 

Yours Maria

Amazing Start!
19-11-2009 by Maria Riesch

Wow! I really won the first Slalom of the season in Levi! After my rather weak training performance of the last weeks I didn`t really had a good feeling about the race. I had never thought that I would be able to win the race ! The more lucky I am that it worked out. A good start is specially at Slalom very important for the self-confidence and for the upcoming races.

Today trainings starts again on the Reiteralm in Schladming (Austria). There I am training the next two days for the Super G and Gigant Slalom. On Friday I fly to Moscow where a racing show in parallel slalom  is taking place on Saturday. On Sunday evening I will arrive in Munich and on Monday I fly again- this time to the US for the preparation for the next World Cup in Aspen.

More infos soon!

Maria Riesch

WISH ME LUCK!
12-11-2009 by Maria Riesch

I just arrived back home from Haus im Ennstal from two good training days. On Saturday our trainers had prepared the slope with water and thankfully for the cold temperatures we had a good iced slope and perfect racing conditions. On Wednesday morning our flight to the far north departs. So we will be able to train a little bit on Thursday in Levi. On Friday will take place the so called “slope inspection”, where we have for one hour the possibility to test the snow and to get the first fine tuning for the material.
I feel healthy and physically good, but I am not sure if I will achieve my sensational performance of the last season- we will see.
Please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Greets,
Maria

From Sölden to Levi
12-11-2009 by Maria Riesch

After the race in Sölden it was a quite busy time for me:  Sportstudio in Mainz, Slalom training at the Reiteralm, Blickpunkt-Sport and DSV-fitting in Herzogenrauch, training, presentation of the Olympic outfits, again training, etc. Last week we were in Haus im Ennstal for the Slalom and Super-G training. The conditions weren’t the best, but I made the best out of it. Before we fly to Finnland next week we will be on Slalom training for two days. There I will try to get the last tweak for the first Slalom race of season in Levi and hope to present myself in an excellent shape.

See you soon!

Maria Riesch

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