2014 Sochi, Russia Olympics Women’s Alpine Skiing
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2014 Sochi, Russia OlympicsWomen’s Alpine Skiing
Miranda Veld
What is Alpine Skiing?
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with
fixed-heel bindings. It is also commonly known as downhill skiing.
Bindings : is an attachment that anchors a ski boot to the ski.
The are 88 different countries participating in the 2014 Sochi,
Olympic games. There are more than 10 000
competitors at the Olympics this year.
Countries and Competitors
Women’s Alpine Skiing Favorites
Viktoria Rebensbura (Germany)Marie – Michele Gagnon (Canada)
Maria Hofl- Riesch ( Germany)Leanne Smith (USA)Julia Mancusa (USA)
Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles (gates) spaced much closer together than in giant slalom, Super G or downhill , thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.
WHAT IS SLALOM SKIING?
TOP 3 COMPETITORS GermanyMaria Hoeft- Riesch 2:34.62
AustriaNicole Hosp
2:35.02
USA Julia Mancuso
2:35.15
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What is downhill skiing?
The downhill discipline involves the highest speeds and therefore the greatest risks of all the alpine events.
TOP 3 COMPETITORS
SwitzerlandLara Gut1:41.67
SloveniaTina Maze
1:41.57 Switzerland
Dominique GISIN 1:41.57
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Interesting Stories from olympics
For the first time in Olympic history, an Alpine skiing race ended in a tie for the
gold medal as Tine Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland
both won the women's downhill.
Tine Maze & Dominique Gisin
Super giant slalom or Super - G is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom.
What is Super – G skiing?
TOP 3 COMPETITORS
AustraliaNicole Hosp
1:26.18
Australia Anna Fenninger
1:25.52
GermanyMaria Hoefl- Riesch
1:26.07 1. 2.
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Braid spinning in the chilly mountain air, Maddie Bowman of the U.S.
soared to the first gold medal in women's Olympic halfpipe skiing,
edging Marie Martinod of France in the finals on a night the sport
paid tribute to late Canadian freestyle skiing icon Sarah Burke
Interesting Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2Z-4mHvy0&safe=active
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lG1e6WMnVA&safe=active
Watch one of these video’s of Alpine
skiing!
Resourceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_skiing
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/21/olympics-alpineskiing-women-slalom-resul-idUSL3N0LQ45A20140221
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1969414-olympic-alpine-skiing-2014-schedule-tv-info-team-medal-predictions-for-day-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-G
THANKS FOR WATCHING
~ MIRANDA