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Men suffer piste
envy? Snow way!
THE WINNER of the most unsurprising press
release of the week goes to InsureandGo.
Its research has revealed that skiers push
themselves on the slopes because they don’t
like being shown up by – wait for it – better
skiers going faster.
And there’s more. Apparently men suffer
“piste envy” more than women. Who would
have thought it: men being competitive?
The worst offenders are chaps aged 55-64,
with 34% admitting to pushing themselves to
match a superior slope slider.
TTG can also reveal that the Pope is Catholic
and bears defecate in the woods.
SNAPPED
BROWN GIRL IN THE WIN: Cruise consultant Charlotte Brown from Ideal Cruising
receives champagne and a certificate from Complete Cruise Solution account manager
Alex White after becoming one of the winners of P&O’s January Wave promotion.
Charlotte’s prize is a seven-night voyage on P&O’s Ventura this spring. The competition
is open for the whole of January. Other winners so far are: Emma Ridout, Cruise Deals;
Paula Jackson, 1st4Cruising; Diana Melling, Save’n’Sail; Claire Gowrie, Scotland’s Cruise
Snowboarders are as competitive as skiers, says insurer
Centre; Caroline Dalton, Gill’s Cruise; and Hayley Cox, Virgin Holidays.
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