Each week Nick gives us the Inside Edge on a top resort
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SKI 4 RESORT PROFILES
Name:
Lake Louise Location:
Canada Summit:
2900 m FIS World Cup Debut:
1980 Events:Downhill, super-G
The Lowdown
A huge crowd of 20,000 came to watch the resort's first ever FIS event in 1980, building on the success of the Lake Placid Olympics
In the first ever World Cup downhill, local Canadian favourite Ken Read could only finish eighth, conceding the overall downhill title to Switzerland's Peter Mueller
Lake Louise is one of Canada's largest ski resorts with runs across three mountains
Unusually, the resort often holds two women's World Cup downhills per season
Croatian Janica Kostelic has dominated the event, winning the women's downhill in 1999, 2000 and 2001
