In Tignes alone, 3 million kilo watts of energy are used each season to make snow.

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The Winter X Games were expanded this year to include Aspen and Tignes, France.

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The network had previously cancelled its planned snowmobile exhibition at X Games Tignes later this month.

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This season, I started in October on the glacier in Saas Fee, Switzerland and plan to finish in Tignes, France, in May.

BBC: Alp mountains

Per an ESPN statement made Tuesday, the network has cancelled its plans for a freestyle snowmobile exhibition at X Games Tignes 2013, scheduled for next month.

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Lemerre called 12 players to a training camp in the Alpine resort of Tignes this week but did not say whether they would all be in his list of 22 for next month's finals.

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In Tignes, another resort favoured by the British, four people were avalanched but managed to dig themselves out, while nearby a father and son were buried under a metre of snow for 10 minutes but other skiers who saw the incident rescued them in time.

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