Ski Racing · Top speed
Downhill racers routinely exceed 130 km/h; Johan Clarey was clocked at 161.9 km/h at Wengen in 2013 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, a combined event only; the modern four-discipline program was complete in 1988
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Ski Racing · Top speedDownhill racers routinely exceed 130 km/h; Johan Clarey was clocked at 161.9…
Ski Racing · taglineTwo runs, one mountain, hundredths of a second — the only sport where the…
Ski Racing · The sport is really four sports wearing one nameThe sport is really four sports wearing one name. Slalom asks for 55 to 75…
Ski Racing · Its geography is narrow and its intensity is totalIts geography is narrow and its intensity is total. Austria, Switzerland,…
Two runs, one mountain, hundredths of a second — the only sport where the athlete is the fastest object on the field. Alpine skiing is the sport of descending a marked mountain course against the clock, one racer at a time, through a sequence of gates that must all be passed.
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Ski Racing · tagline
Two runs, one mountain, hundredths of a second — the only sport where the athlete is the fastest object on the field. Alpine skiing is the sport of descending a marked mountain course against the clock, one racer at a time, through a sequence of gates that must all be passed.
Ski Racing · The sport is really four sports wearing one name
The sport is really four sports wearing one name. Slalom asks for 55 to 75 direction changes in under a minute on skis 165 centimetres long. Giant slalom stretches the rhythm and doubles the speed. Super-G removes the training runs entirely, forcing racers to attack a course they have only inspected on foot.
Ski Racing · Its geography is narrow and its intensity is total
Its geography is narrow and its intensity is total. Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Norway supply most of the podiums, and the World Cup circuit tours the same valleys every winter, with the Lauberhorn at Wengen and the Streif at Kitzbuhel functioning as the sport's Wimbledon and Monaco combined.
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- Its geography is narrow and its intensity is total. Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Norway supply most of the podiums, and the World Cup circuit tours the same valleys every winter, with the Lauberhorn at Wengen and the Streif at Kitzbuhel functioning as the sport's Wimbledon and Monaco combined.
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