Cross Country is at the Coupe Icare in St Hilaire du Touvet, France. We’ll be blogging on this page so check back over the weekend for updates. If you’re heading to the festival, come and visit us on stand B21

Come along and see Cross Country and Paramotor magazines at the Coupe Icare this weekend at St Hilaire du Touvet, France.

Plusmax have created sunglasses for the extreme sportsperson, with a modern style. The new Vortex glasses come with a range of antifog polycarbonate lenses and a lifetime warranty.

Niviuk’s new tandem, the EN B Takoo 2, will be on show at St Hilaire this weekend.

Niviuk have created an official communications department, to be run by Ignasi Pons (Nani).

Mads Syndergaard is going to the XC Turkey Paragliding Cup this month, and will be sending regular updates back to Cross Country magazine as the event unfolds.

Mads Syndergaard is going to the XC Turkey Paragliding Cup this month, and will be sending us regular updates as the event unfolds.

The Turkish paragliding festival known to most as the Oludeniz Air Games is to be re-named the Oludeniz Air fest. It takes place in the Turkish resort from 13 – 17 october 2010.

Some of the Cross Country team are planning a post-St Hilaire treat: to climb Mont Blanc, the biggest mountain in Western Europe (4,810m), and fly off it. Charlie King is preparing for the off.

VOTE NOW! We’ve a had a great response to our Facebook paragliding and hang gliding short film competition – thanks to everyone who entered. The winner will be the one who gets the most votes in this poll.

Craig Morgan has become British Paragliding Champion for the second time after a hugely successful second round of the British Championships.

The paramotoring world has just enjoyed a weekend of a new kind of competition and a lot of fun. Fourteen of the world’s top paramotor pilots met in Montauban, SW France for Parabatix, a spectator-friendly competition involving pylon racng and stick-kicking in an audience-filled area.

All five rounds of the British Paragliding Cup have now been flown, and Richard Butterworth is holder of the cup for 2010.

Mal Grace reports on the final roud of the British Paragliding Cup that was held in Snowdonia over the weekend of 13 – 15 August. Martin Sandwith won the round, but overall winner of the 2010 BPCup was Richard Butterworth. [More...]

Mal Grace reports on the South East Wales round of the British Paragliding Cup (30 July – 1 August), which was not blessed with ideal weather conditions. Malcolm Davis made the best of the tricky conditions to win the round.

Mal Grace reports on round three of the BPCup, which was held at Long Mynd in Shropshire.