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

SwitzerlandDominique 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

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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