Winter Olympics - Winter Olympic Skiing History

Highlights of Olympic alpine and nordic skiing events.

Winter Olympic skiing events included alpine skiing (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G, and combined), freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, and nordic combined.

There are quite a few great men and women alpine ski racers that need to be recognized for their accomplishments in he world of alpine ski racing.

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.

Ski Jumping competition results are based on a total point system combining style points and distance points.

Cross country skiing races are contested in twelve events consisting of both men and women individual and national team races.

There are three Nordic Combined events. All are men's events, which consist of a ski jumping competition, and a cross-country skiing race.

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...

With all the excitement building around the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics there are a couple of memorable events concerning past olympics here in the U.S. that I want to be sure everyone is aware of. It was 50 years ago, this year, that the now 60 year old ski resort of Squaw Valley USA in California hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics - the VIII Winter Olympic Games.

Information on when skiing became an Olympic sport and the skiing competition that is included in the Winter Olympic Games.

For the U.S. Ski Team, the road to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy followed the worldwide schedule of FIS World Cup Racing.