Mogulists move from Lake Placid to Val St. Come | FIS Freestyle Skiing

Описание: High speed, awesome air, sharp turns, amazing agility. Watching the moguls event is always spectacular! The world’s best freestyle skiers will be in Val Saint-Côme to compete on this leg of the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup on Jan. 21st. Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Reiherd conquered Lake Placid’s Whiteface to earn his first win in nearly 9 years while Aussie Britteny Cox made back-to-back stops. Host nation Canada will aim to bounce back on the home soil.

Freestyle is one of the six Olympic disciplines administered the - The International Ski Federation (FIS). The discipline consists of five events Moguls, Aerials, Skicross, HalfPipe and Slopestyle. Freestyle skiing is a young snow sport beginning in the 1950's. Originally, a mix of alpine skiing and acrobatics, the first freestyle skiing competition was held in Attitash, New Hampshire in 1966. A relative newcomer to the Olympic Winter Games, Moguls became an Olympic event in 1992 in Albertville. Aerials were added for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. The newest Olympic Winter Games event, Ski Cross, made its debut in Vancouver in 2010. In 2014 halfpipe and slopestyle were added to the Olympic winter schedule.

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As the governing body of international skiing and snowboarding, FIS manages the Olympic disciplines of Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding, including setting the international competition rules. Through its 116 member nations, more than 6'500 FIS ski and snowboard competitions are staged annually.