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Cole McDonald (born March 6, 2003) is an American freestyle skier.He joined the US Ski & Snowboard's U.S. Freestyle Ski Team (Development Team) in July 2021. [1] In the same season as his first World Cup, he earned a spot on the U.S. Men's Moguls Team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the youngest American male mogul skier to participate in the Olympics at 18 years of age. [2]
Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. [1] Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships , and at the Winter Olympic Games .
Nicholas "Nick" Page (born August 1, 2002) is an American freestyle skier.He competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the men's moguls event and placed fifth. [1] [2]Page was the second athlete to attempt a cork 1440 in a FIS level competition and the third mogul skier in the world to do a double cork 10 on a mogul course.
Before that, freestyle skiing was contested at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, consisting of events for both men and women in three variants: moguls, aerials and ski ballet. [5] In Albertville, moguls was the first-ever official freestyle skiing medal event; aerials and ski ballet were also held but still as demonstration ...
Mogul skiing was added as an official medal event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and the aerials event was added for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. In 1981 he organized a team of young Americans to ski the three highest mountains in Mexico including El Pico de Orizaba (a volcano at 18,700 ft, the third highest summit in ...
Hannah Hardaway was a 5x Junior National Moguls Champion (she won her first Junior National Moguls Competition at just 13 years of age,) she was also a Junior World Moguls Champion (1997 in Finland), 6x National Champion (moguls and upright aerials,) and the winner of over 50 moguls competitions in her skiing career.
There were both men's and women's competition in both aerials and moguls events. In moguls, the athletes ski down a slope littered with moguls (bumps), attempting to get down in as fast a time as possible while also attempting to get points for technique and their two aerial jumps during the course. The aerials events consisted of two jumps ...
Britteny Cox (born 29 September 1994) is an Australian mogul skier. Growing up in the Victorian alpine resort of Falls Creek, Cox was born into a mogul skiing environment, with her family passionate mogul skiers. Cox was the youngest athlete to compete at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. [2]