U.S. Ski Team / Competitions
Information on the U.S. Ski Team, ski competitions, Olympic and World Cup skiing, and amateur and professional ski events.
U.S. Ski Team announcements, news, information, and events.
The XXI Winter Olympics take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in February, 2010. Skiing events include alpine skiing (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G, and combined), freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, and nordic combined, which involves ski jumping and cross country skiing.
The World Cup Ski Racing Series was formed to recognize the skiers who, based on a sliding point scale, to have skied the best, or fastest overall in a series of ski races.
The Alpine World Ski Championships were held in Val d'Isère, France, in February 2009.
NASTAR (NAtional STAndard Race) racing is a program where recreational skiers of all ages and abilities can test their skills on courses set up at resorts across the country, and can have their times and scores compared under a universal handicapping system.
Alpine ski racing consists of five men's events and five women's events. The rules and race configuration are the same for men and women but the courses differ mostly notably in length.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) first approved freestyle skiing as a discipline in 1979. It wasn't until 1986 that a World Championship consisting of mogul, aerial, and ballet competition was held in Tignes, France. Freestyle skiing was a demonstration event at the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988. Mogul skiing was added to the official games at Albertville in 1992.
There are three Nordic Combined events. All are men's events, which consist of a ski jumping competition, and a cross-country skiing race.
Ski Jumping competition results are based on a total point system combining style points and distance points.
