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"\"&lt;p&gt;In a few days, another first of the 2009 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup takes place as&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nCypress is not only hosting three World Cup events for the first time but also organising the&lt;br \\/&gt;\\ncompetitions on the 2010 Olympic snowboard venue. The world\\u2019s best riders will meet at the&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nresort close to Vancouver, BC, Canada. More than 300 athletes from 31 countries will&lt;br \\/&gt;\\ncompete in a Snowboard Cross (Feb, 12th + 13th), a Halfpipe contest (Feb, 14th) and a&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nParallel Giant Slalom (Feb, 15th) in order to battle for World Cup points and a total price&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nmoney of 150.000 Canadian Dollars.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nOutstanding line-up&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nAs impressive as the possible pay check for the top ranked athletes of each competition is&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nthe line-up for all three events. In the Snowboard Cross Canada\\u2019s squad including 2006&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nOlympic Bronze medallist Dominique Maltais, Maelle Ricker as well as Drew Neilson, Tom&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nVelisek and Robert Fagan are looking forward to match with international SBX cracks from&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nthe US like Olympic Champion Seth Wescott, Lindsey Jacobellis, Shaun Palmer, Nate&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHolland and Graham Watanabe or Norway\\u2019s 2009 World Champion Helene Olafsen and her&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nfellow team mate Stian Sivertzen as well as Xavier Delerue (FRA), new World Champion&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nMarkus Schairer (AUT),David Speiser (GER), Sandra Frei (SUI) or Zoe Gillings (GBR).&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nShaun White ready to rumble&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nIn the halfpipe, the competition for the hosting country and its riders like Brad Martin, Crispin&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nLipscomb, 2009 World Championships Silver medallist Jeff Batchelor, Justin Lamoureux or&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nDominique Vall\\u00e9e is also more than strong. Led by snowboard super star Shaun White&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n(USA) and his team mates Danny Kass, Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter, some pros from&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nEurope, Oceania and Asia are also flying to Canada to meet for an outstanding Halfpipe&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nfestival. Besides Antti Autti and Peetu Piiroinen from Finland or French Mathieu Crepel and&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nPolish Paulina Ligocka everyone of distinction doesn\\u2019t want to miss the action and the&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nchance to compete with the world\\u2019s best at the venue for the 2010 highlight. No wonder, that&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nRyoh Aono (JPN), Jiayu Liu (CHN) and Australia\\u2019s Torah Bright and Holly Crawford accept a&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nlong travel in order drop in the halfpipe at Cypress.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nIn the Parallel Giant Slalom, Alexa Loo, Kimiko Zakreski as well as Matthew Morison and&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n2009 World Champion Jasey-Jay Anderson (all CAN) will face the strong Austrian team&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nincluding 2009 PSL World Champion Benjamin Karl, PGS Gold medallist Marion Kreiner&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nand Doris Guenther who not only claimed WCS Silver twice but also leads the Parallel&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nWorld Cup with a comfortable lead. In addition, Amelie Kober and Patrick Bussler from&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nGermany, Nicolien Sauerbreij (NED) and double WCS Silver medallist Sylvain Dufour (FRA)&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nwill be ready to find out who will be the faster one in enthralling head-to-head duels.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Time schedule for Cypress, Canada \\u2013 All local times:&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nThursday, February 12th, 2009: Snowboard Cross Qualifications at 10:00 AM&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nFriday, February 13th, 2009: Snowboard Cross Finals at 1:30 PM&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSaturday, February 14th, 2009: Halfpipe Qualifications at 8:25 AM&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nHalfpipe Finals at 3 PM&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSunday, February 15th, 2009 Parallel Giant Slalom Qualifications at 9 AM&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nParallel Giant Slalom Finals at 1 PM&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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