Para alpine skiing is practised worldwide and features six disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, alpine combined, and team events. Not all disciplines are included in the Paralympic ...

Para alpine skiing is practiced worldwide and features six disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, super combined, and team events. Athletes combine speed and agility while racing down ...

balgrist.ch More specifically, one could hypothesise that measures affecting the ski–snow interaction might be helpful for reducing the low-frequency WBV and acting ground reaction forces; thus, ...

Background There is limited empirical knowledge about the effect of ski geometry, particularly in the context of injury prevention in alpine ski racing. We investigated the effect of sidecut radius on ...

Alpine skiing, also known as ski racing, has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936. The sport tests athletes' ability to ski down a snow-covered mountain as fast as possible within a set ...

So it was for Switzerland’s Alpine ski racers at the 2022 Games ... Beijing was meant to be the latest big stage to showcase her generational ski racing talent, the same talent that had already made ...

Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games - Para Alpine Skiing ... of the sport since his last Paralympics in Salt Lake City 2002. “In 2002, we were still racing in classes then – it was not ...

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Italian Federica Brignone already this season became the oldest woman to win an Alpine skiing World Cup race in downhill, super-G and giant slalom. Now she’s the oldest woman or man to win a World Cup ...

The women’s super-G ski race is four days later. Ledecka has said she has lobbied for a schedule change to break up the PGS and the downhill. She hasn’t announced which event she would pick if they ...