Some Interesting Links and Videos

• This is a really interesting link to the Olympics official website.If you are interested in skiing, snowboarding or any other sport in the Olympics http://www.olympic.org/  is a great website to find out about your favourite athletes and sports.

• For skiing fans take a look at :http://www.olympic.org/alpine-skiing-slalom-men. It brings you straight to the alpine skiing section. There are some really cool videos of men doing the Slalum. Especially the mens alalum final inTorino in 2006. It also has photos and links to all other skiing event.

• Want to learn how to ski or just inprove your skills? Check out this video http://vimeo.com/15351115. This video helps improve and "spice up your skills".

• Look at this ! A very stupid but normal, recreational skier somehow gets on the racecourse and is taken out by racer. http://video.mpora.de/watch/G7Sq3vR45/

Some Olympic skiing news

• Olympic silver medal winner Jeret "speedy" Peterson found dead in Utah. Police suspect it to be suicide.

Read more : http://sports.espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=6273652

• The World Cup parallel Slalum in Munich will stay on the calender for the next 5 years.

Read more : http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16112011/58/munich-race-stay-calendar.html

• Several World Cup teams going to USA earlier than planned due to lack of snow in Northern Europe.

Read more : http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09112011/58/world-cup-teams-flock.html

• Halfpipe and slopeskiing events added to the Freestyle World cup calender in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

Read more : http://skiracing.com/?q=node/10964

Skiing as a sport

Different skiing competitions: Competitive skiing is broken mainly into two different disciplines. Racing and Freestyle.

1.      Racing: Racing is a discipline that requires you to make lots of fast turns to manoeuvre around gates. It is a very competitive discipline and there are five main different types of racing including slalom, giant slalom, combined, super-G and super combined. These are all competitions in the winter Olympics.

2.      Freestyle: Freestyle has been a competitive sports in the winter Olympics since 1992.There are also many different types of freestyle including half pipe, aerials and moguls.

• http://vimeo.com/17531650- this is a really cool video of guys showing what they do best FREE STYLE SKIING.

• Anyone interested in freestyle skiing in the Olympics check this out!

http://sports.espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=6273652