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Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics.It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis.
Freestyle skiing is one of the sports featured at the Winter Youth Olympics. In 2012 it included the disciplines of half pipe and ski cross. In 2016, slopestyle was added, also 1 mixed event was held together with snowboarders.
Freestyle skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics, with moguls, aerials, and ballet events. Moguls became an official medal sport at the 1992 games, while aerials and ballet were still demonstration events. At the 1994 games, aerials also became an official medal event and the ski ballet competition was dropped
The first appearance of freestyle skiing at the Winter Universiade was as an optional sport in the 2005 edition which was held in Innsbruck, Austria. Due to the growing demand, the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire decided to making it a mandatory sporting starting in 2021 .
The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980. [1] [2] Currently six disciplines are included in world cup: moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. In the 1980s and 1990s there were also ski ballet and combined, which no longer exist.
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The state of Utah, in coordination with the US Ski Team, built their water ramp in 1993, [1] in preparation for the 2002 Olympics. [2] Now called the Utah Olympic Park , the facility hosts U.S., Australia and other national ski teams for Freestyles Aerial skiing and Mogul skiing , as well as various snowboarding and Freeskiing athletes. [ 3 ]
Four freestyle skiing events were held at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, at the venue in Sauze d'Oulx. There were both men's and women's competition in both aerials and moguls events. In moguls , the athletes ski down a slope littered with moguls, attempting to get down in as fast a time as possible while also attempting to get points for ...