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All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
A Swiss skier bodged a trick and landed painfully on the lip of the halfpipe at the Olympics Tuesday -- demonstrating just how dangerous the sport can be.
Mikaela Shiffrin eyes Alpine skiing rebound ... toward a comeback of his own from a major race crash in January 2024. ... off from competition after each of her Olympic halfpipe titles in 2018 and ...
Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by Joffrey Pollet-Villard , with 26 feet 3 inches (8.00 metres). [ 1 ]
Gus Kenworthy, now skiing for Great Britain, mis-aligned a jump and hit the halfpipe wall so hard he shattered the cornice. Switzerland’s Robin Briguet fell on a windblown trick and raised his ...
Sarah Jean Burke [1] (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. [2] [3] She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
The men's halfpipe competition of the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011 was held at Park City Mountain Resort, Park City, Utah, United States between February 4 and 5, 2011 (qualifications and finals). [1] 33 athletes from 14 countries competed. [2]
USA's Shaun White reacts during the snowboard halfpipe qualification during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park on February 09, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China.