Manx snowboardcrosser Zoe Gillings starts the new World Cup season today.
The 27 year-old from Ronague is currently ranked number six.
It's an important campaign with the next Olympic Games in Russia taking place at the start of 2014.
The opening round is in Austria but not at the usual venue of Bad Gastein.
It's taking place at the resort of Montafon and Zoe admits she doesn't know a great deal about the course:-
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