Carve: A crisp turn. Combined: An event with one downhill run, followed by one slalom run. Downhill: A speed event with the longest course and the fastest speeds. Fall line: The most direct route down ...

a downhill and a slalom. Then he fought with FIS to endorse Alpine ski races, a battle he did not win until 1930. Lunn helped organize the first of the great ski races — the Arlberg-Kandahar.

Athletes compete in a series of head-to-head slalom races. Missing a gate in alpine skiing If a skier misses a gate, he or she is disqualified from the competition, unless he or she hikes uphill and ...

In 1930 I attended the International Ski Congress in Oslo and succeeded in obtaining international recognition of the British rules for downhill and slalom racing. I had great opposition to ...

Para alpine skiing is practiced worldwide and features six disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, super combined, and team events. Athletes combine speed and agility while racing down ...

Ski instructors are considered professionals, and at that time the Olympics were meant for amateurs. The shortest alpine event is the Slalom, but skiers have to make their way through the most ...

Next comes Mikaela Shiffrin, the alpine skiing GOAT, who smashed Ingemar Stenmark’s 86 World Cup win record at a 2023 slalom event in Are. Currently, she stands with 99 career wins and 88 World ...

Mikaela Shiffrin, starting an Alpine Skiing World Cup season in which she will seek to equal the record of six overall women’s titles, had to settle for sixth place in the opening giant slalom ...

The Jeongseon Alpine Centre will hold 30 alpine skiing medals events (15 men’s and 15 women’s) in downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G and combined; and 10 snowboard events (six men’s and four ...

Olympic alpine skiing downhiller Breezy Johnson was hit ... to 97 World Cup victories when the American skier won the last slalom of the season at the Alpine World Cup finals.

ALPINE SKIING: Broadcast Schedule After that, the World Cup visits Åre, Sweden, for a giant slalom and a slalom on March 9-10. "We knew Åre was *likely* going to be the target, but didn’t rule ...

Self-steering plays a central role in the mechanism of anterior cruciate ligament rupture in alpine ski racing. Therefore, we: (1) investigated the effect of skis with different sidecut radii on ...