Facts About Alpine Skiing

Alpine skiing is the sking method that was developed during the 19th and 20th centuries in the mountain terrain of the Alps region located in central part of Europe. Modern Alpine skiing contests are categorized into the latest era speed and technical skills event, the former trends of Alpine Skiing comprises of the supergiant slalom and downhill sking  or the super-G, and the latter part includes the  giant slalom and  slalom.

The speed events are performed in single runs down steep, long, fast course of nature which features few widely spaced trips and turns. These kind of technical events basically challenge the skier’s ability to control over the various courses which are marked by some narrow gates throughout that both the skis must pass smoothly while the winners are finally calculated by the lowest determined time in both the runs on two different kinds of courses. The Alpine consisting event combines of a downhill and thereafter a slalom race, while the winner is determined as the person having the lowest time altogether. Alpine skiing was introduced in Olympic at the 1936 winter games in Germany, where a race that was combined featuring both the downhill and the slalom events was held together. The first slalom competition in Olympic took place at the Winter Games in 1952 at Oslo. That same year the combined program happened. However it was dropped for the Winter Games of 1998 in Nagano, Japan, whereas, in relation to the two new events the combined slalom and the combined downhill takes place. The Winter Games in 2002 in the salt lake city Utah, once again features an event which is combined two slalom and one downhill runs. The Winter Games of 2006 in Turin, Italy, carried out the combined slaloms and downhills for both men and women. Alpine skiers takes accessories like a light pole of metal tubing which may be about 4 feet (1.2 metres) long in both the hand. Poles helps the skier by pushing along on a straight terrain, also in climbing and finally in maintaining the balance whenever skier racing downhill or turning on the snow. Each pole consists of a ring or wheel near the bottom, which prevents the skier at any point from sinking over too deep in the Snow Mountains.

By: Anuja Arora

Content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_skiing