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Heavy snowfall in French & Italian resorts

After a prolonged dry spell heavy snow has returned to many ski resorts in Europe.

The snow arrived this week, with the Italian resort of Chiesa seeing the bigest dump (70cm). Serre Chevalier had 50cm and La Grave 35cm.

Snowfall in Austrian resorts, where conditions have been warm a couple of weeks, has been more varied: St Anton and Ischgl had just 5cm of fresh snow this week, while Ellmau and Söll have reported no significant falls since late December. The best conditions remain at higher altitudes.

Ski Sunday Returns!

Graham Bell and Ed Leigh present coverage of the men's giant slalom from Adelboden in Switzerland. Austrian Benjamin Raich has won three of the last four giant slaloms at the Kuonisbaergli course, including most recently in 2009. He was denied the chance to add a fourth win when 2010's event was cancelled due to fog. There is also some spectacular action featuring 16 of the world's best snowboarders going head-to-head at the Oakley Air and Style Big Air snowboard event in Beijing.

17:00 on BBC Two