Alpine Skiing – 2010 Winter Olympics

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”Alpine skiing has been practiced in the European Alps for at least 150 years. In addition to adapting cross-country techniques to suit their steeper slopes, alpine skiers also found they needed slightly wider skis to go downhill safely, and developed different ways to use their poles and new turning techniques to match the more vertical terrain of the high mountains.

The sport became increasingly popular through the early 20th century with the development of T-bars, tows and ski lifts, as alpine skiers no longer had to climb up a slope before skiing down.

Alpine skiing for both men and women debuted as an Olympic sport in 1936 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. in 1948, separate downhill and slalom races were added. From that time, super combined was not contested at an Olympic Winter Games until 1988, in Calgary. The giant slalom was added in 1952, and the super-G in 1988.”

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simon wrote on the wire of the group Alpine Skiing – 2010 Winter Olympics: 1 week, 4 days ago

View The Vancouver 2010 Medals Table
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Bode Miller Wins Long Awaited Gold In Super-G
WHISTLER (Reuters) – American Bode Miller rampaged down the Olympic slalom slope to win the men's super combined event on Sunday and complete his set of medals with a long-awaited first gold.

The 32-year-old, who had won a silver in super-G and a bronze in downhill earlier in the [...]
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Olympic Visitor Experience
http://mojosimon.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-winter-olympics-part-2/
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Fischbacher Wins Super-G gold; Vonn Finishes Third
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/olympics/2010/02/20/womens.super.g/index.html

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On February 27, 2010 Mojosimon said:

View The Vancouver 2010 Medals Table
http://mojofiti.com/simon/2010/02/27/view-the-vancouver-2010-medals-table/
On February 21, 2010 Mojosimon said:

Bode Miller Wins Long Awaited Gold In Super-G
WHISTLER (Reuters) – American Bode Miller rampaged down the Olympic slalom slope to win the men’s super combined event on Sunday and complete his set of medals with a long-awaited first gold.

The 32-year-old, who had won a silver in super-G and a bronze in downhill earlier in the week, beat Ivica Kostelic on a tricky slalom course set by the Croatian’s father to collect the fifth Alpine skiing medal of his Olympic career.

Switzerland's Silvan Zurbriggen, a distant cousin of former Olympic champion Pirmin, took the bronze medal on a day when bright sunshine and gleaming pistes were matched by equally brilliant skiing.

”I skied my ass off,” gasped Miller, the words gushing out of his mouth in a rapid flow after he had thrown everything at the hill.

He had finished the downhill in seventh place after a mistake and, with a daunting 0.76 seconds to make up, threw caution aside.
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”I dug deep,” Miller added, the stars and stripes on his race suit matched by the flags waved by a crowd on tenterhooks and roaring him on.

”I was so tired. This was probably my best chance to win, but it took a huge amount of mental stamina.

”To execute the race the way I did today is something I will be proud of for the rest of my life.”

Team mate Ted Ligety, who won the old-style combined in Turin four years ago ahead of Kostelic, paid tribute to his compatriot who completed his transformation from the flop of 2006 to become the first U.S. skier to win five medals.

”The combined is tailor-made for Bode,” he said. ”He is one of the world’s best downhill skiers and he has had moments of brilliance in the slalom and showed it today.”

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, who had led after the downhill part of the event, had no alternative but to attack the piste and hope for the best. He lost the bet.

The last of the leaders out of the start hut, the newly-crowned super-G champion saw his bid for a second gold, and third medal, of the Games disappear when he lost his rhythm and skied out.

”It happens, it’s part of the Games,” he said.

”No-one wins anything by being safe. In slalom you can’t defend anything, you just have to get after it.”

Kostelic, the brother of retired multiple gold medalist Janica, was delighted to repeat his Turin silver despite again losing out to an American.

”It’s totally different to be at the Olympic Games and be one of the favorites,” he said. ”This is so important for me and my family. This is just the top.”
On February 21, 2010 Mojosimon said:

Olympic Visitor Experience
http://mojosimon.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-winter-olympics-part-2/
On February 20, 2010 Mojosimon said:

Fischbacher Wins Super-G gold; Vonn Finishes Third
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/olympics/2010/02/20/womens.super.g/index.html
On February 20, 2010 Mojosimon said:

Live Blog – Women’s Super-G
http://www.nbcolympics.com/alpine-skiing/resultsandschedules/event=ASW040000//blog.html

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