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    Unofficial Olympic Guidebook: Freestyle Skiing
    Unofficial Olympic Guidebook: Freestyle Skiing
    Unofficial Olympic Guidebook: Freestyle Skiing
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    Unofficial Olympic Guidebook: Freestyle Skiing

    By Kyle Richardson

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    Nothing quite matches the excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to freestyle skiing. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes on the podium when the Games are done! Enjoy this book to better understand freestyle skiing, how it works and what to look for at the Sochi 2014 Games.
    BONUS: Info on how to become an Olympian!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyle Richardson
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310830532
    Unofficial Olympic Guidebook: Freestyle Skiing
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    Kyle Richardson

    Kyle Richardson is an Olympic fanatic. During the 1996 Games he gave himself a bladder infection because he did not want to leave the couch. Overshare? Maybe. Or maybe it is just a preview of all of the amazing Olympic facts that you will find in his guide books. Be brave, buy a book, and find out for yourself.

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      Unofficial Olympic Guidebook - Kyle Richardson

      History

      While traditional skiing has been around since prehistoric times, freestyle skiing is the new kid on the block. Skiing that included somersaults jumps and flips started showing up in the 1930’s in skiing exhibitions. By the 1950’s, mogul fields were over run by teenagers showing off tricks and flips and was called hotdogging. Yeah, as in, You kids stop that hotdogging!

      Freestyle skiing really began to take off in America during the 1960s and by the 1970’s, sport leader Wayne Wong was starring in Pepsi commercials. Advances in ski equipment led to development of new and exciting skiing techniques. Over the decades, aerial, mogul, ski ballet, ski cross and freeskiing all emerged as independent skiing disciplines.

      Freestyle skiing made an Olympic debut as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Calgary Games. The events demonstrated were aerial, mogul and ballet. Mogul became an official sport at the 1992 Albertville Games and aerial joined the official program at the 1994 Lillehammer Games. Ski ballet was demonstrated twice before being dropped entirely. Ski cross was added to the Olympic program at the 2010 Vancouver Games and this year will see the addition of two more events, ski half-pipe and ski slopestyle.

      Memorable Olympian - Alisa Camplin

      Australia went into the 2002 Salt Lake City Games chasing a dream, to win their first ever gold medal at a Winter Olympics. A lot of pressure was being put on the athletes to perform, including freestyle aerial skier, Alisa Camplin. Camplin took a fall in training a few weeks before the Olympic opening ceremony and was initially told she had bruised her bones. In a pre-Games check up in Salt Lake City, it was discovered that she had fractured both of her ankles. The doctors were amazed that she was walking, let alone planning to jump. Two days before the finals, Steven Bradbury, a speed skater, won Australia its much-coveted gold medal, but that did not keep Camplin from giving her event everything she had. With a pair of triple-twisting, double backflip jumps, Camplin would win a gold medal, and become Australia’s first woman to win Olympic gold.

      Who Has Dominated Previous Play

      Freestyle skiing has such a diverse set of disciplines that not a single country has come to dominate the sport. While USA has typically done well in moguls, China has become a force in the aerial events. Both men’s and women’s ski cross events are so new to the Olympic stage that it is pretty much anyone’s guess who will come to lead the pack. This year will see the introduction of two entirely new disciplines, half-pipe and slopestyle, and who will win is anyone’s guess. Freestyle skiing will continue to evolve in different countries as young people

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