Western Europe - Alpine Skiing

The Olympic Men's Slalom is a downhill Olympic Alpine skiing event that takes place in two heats on the same day and involves skiing around pairs of poles (called gates) set about thirty feet apart vertically and only 6 or so feet ...

The Winter Olympics is held every four years. Action from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, including the Alpine Skiing, can be seen on NBC at http: American ski racer Lindsay Vonn has won the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Overall title two years ...

The Olympic Men's Giant Slalom is one of the more popular of all Winter Olympic events. Currently, the best Giant Slalom athletes are those representing the countries of Switzerland , Austria , Italy , the United States , Canada , Finland and ...

The men's downhill competition is the first of 10 alpine events that will take place during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics . Whistler Creekside , with an elevation of 2,650 feet, is the site of all the men's and women's Alpine skiing events. ...

2010 Olympic Alpine Skiing was held at Whistler Creekside in Vancouver , British Columbia from February 13 through February 27 . Competitors to watch include Ted Ligety , Bode Miller and Julia Mancuso of the United States , Benjamin Raich and Marlies ...

This type of skiing is thought to have been started by Odd Kjelsberg of Winterhur, Switzerland in 1889. Among these are North America , Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand . North America uses a series of colored shapes to advise skiers ...

Alpine skiing has a long history and tradition in mountainous European countries , so it should not be surprising that the top contenders in all of the Alpine skiing events are skiers from Europe. Around the 2008-2009 New Year, Riesch won five ...

Vonn will be one of four American racers who won Olympic golds at the 2010 Vancouver Games turning out for a season bissected by the February 8-20 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.Also taking to the slopes will be Julia Mancuso, Bode ...

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin Braxenthaler ...

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Topic: Western Europe

Olympic Men's Slalom

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Olympic Men's Giant Slalom

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