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  2. Freestyle skiing - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Freeskiing - Wikipedia

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    Skier performing a mute grab Pictograms of Olympic sports - Freestyle skiing Belarus postal stamp souvenir sheet commemorating the 2006 Winter Olympics featuring freestyle skiing. Freeskiing, or new school skiing, is a specific type of alpine skiing, which involves tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails, boxes, jibs, or other ...

  5. Skiing - Wikipedia

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    Skiing has a history of almost five millennia. [1] Although modern skiing has evolved from beginnings in Scandinavia, it may have been practiced more than 100 centuries ago in the Altai Mountains, according to an interpretation of ancient paintings. [2] [3] However, this continues to be debated. [4] [5]

  6. List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing - Wikipedia

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    Before that, freestyle skiing was contested at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, consisting of events for both men and women in three variants: moguls, aerials and ski ballet. [5] In Albertville, moguls was the first-ever official freestyle skiing medal event; aerials and ski ballet were also held but still as demonstration ...

  7. Mogul skiing - Wikipedia

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    Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. [1] Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships , and at the Winter Olympic Games .

  8. Michel Daigle - Wikipedia

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    He is considered one of the founders of freestyle skiing, alongside Darryl Bowie and John Johnston [8] [9] [10] and has been credited with the growth of freestyle skiing in the mid 1970s. Daigle competed in ski ballet, moguls and aerials. Daigle also launched the first freestyle ski camps in Canada and built the first water ski ramps in the ...

  9. History of skiing - Wikipedia

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    Kalvträskskidan at the ski exhibition in Umeå. The oldest information about skiing is based on archaeological evidence. Two regions present the earliest evidence of skis and their use: northern Russia, where the oldest fragments of ski-like objects, dating from about 6300–5000 BCE were found about 1,200 km northeast of Moscow at Lake Sindor, [8] and the Altaic region of modern China where ...