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In 1905 the Ski Club began publishing the British Ski Year Book. [6] This provided a record of changes in equipment, clothes, facilities, ski techniques, and holidays over the decades. In 1972 the British Ski Year Book became Ski Survey. [7] In 1997 Ski Survey became Ski+board Magazine and was redesigned.
Konrad Bartelski (born 27 May 1954), finished second in a World Cup downhill race in 1981, and competed at the 1972 and 1976 Winter Olympics.; Alain Baxter (born 26 December 1973, half-brother of Noel Baxter), seven-time British slalom champion, competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing third in 2002 but subsequently failed a drug test and was stripped of the bronze medal.
Charlotte "Charlie" Guest (born 30 December 1993) is a retired Scottish World Cup alpine ski racer who specialised in slalom and competes occasionally in giant slalom. [1] She is the first British woman ever to win an Alpine European Cup race.
She recorded 19th and 22nd-place finishes in the super-G and giant slalom events, respectively. In the World Cup, Alcott achieved seven top-30 results, with a best finish of 12th place in the super-G at Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria. [30] In a weather-disrupted British Championships (Meribel, France), Alcott won the slalom and giant slalom titles ...
The rules for the modern slalom were developed by Arnold Lunn in 1922 for the British National Ski Championships, and adopted for alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Under these rules gates were marked by pairs of flags rather than single ones, were arranged so that the racers had to use a variety of turn lengths to negotiate them, and ...
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The text reads, "It was here in Mürren that Arnold Lunn set the first slalom in 1922 and organised the first world championship in downhill and slalom racing in 1931." Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 – 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952.
Alain Baxter (born 26 December 1973) is a Scottish former alpine skier who was formerly a professional specialising in the slalom discipline. He is best known for failing a drug test after finishing third in the men's slalom of the 2002 Winter Olympics, resulting in him being controversially stripped of the bronze medal; he would have become the first British person to win an Olympic medal in ...