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2. List of ski brands - Wikipedia

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   Black Diamond Equipment: alpine skis, telemark skis, cross-country skis, ski boots, ski bindings: USA: 1989: Formerly Chouinard Equipment (founded in 1957), Black Diamond first entered the ski market in the early 1980s with the XCD telemark binding. Blizzard: alpine skis: Austria: 1945: Founded by Toni Arnsteiner. It is part of Tecnica Group ...

3. Alpine skiing - Wikipedia

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   Back-country skiers may use specialized equipment with a free-heel mode, including 'sticky' skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent. Alpine ski racing has been held at the Winter Olympics since 1936. [1]

4. Lange (ski boots) - Wikipedia

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   Lange is a major producer of ski boots used in alpine (downhill) skiing, founded in 1948 in the USA.They introduced the world's first plastic ski boots in 1962, and a greatly improved model aimed at the racing market in 1965.

5. Giant slalom - Wikipedia

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   Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up the technical events in alpine ski racing.

6. Super-G - Wikipedia

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   Super-G was run as a World Cup test event during the 1982 season, with two men's races and a women's race that did not count in the season standings. [1]Approved by the International Ski Federation (FIS) that summer, it was first officially run at the World Cup level in December 1982 at Val-d'Isère, France; the winner was Peter Müller of Switzerland.

7. Italian skier Brignone wins, Shiffrin takes 'big step' as ...

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   Federica Brignone overcame a recent illness to win the first World Cup giant slalom after taking gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday, while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 25th in ...