Ski Cross
As the world turns, the IOC removes sports from the Olympic program (like tug of war and baseball), but most of the time, it adds them. We saw the introduction of snowboardcross to the Olympic program in Torino, and for 2010, ski cross has been added to the Olympics.
Ski cross is a lot like snowboardcross, in that four athletes compete to get to the bottom of the hill first. Skiers will face moguls and other obstacles as the race down the hill. Skiers are not supposed to push each other, but like snowboardcross and short track speed skating, there is the occasional crash. Athletes who can keep out of these crashes are more likely to make it to the end.
In the United States, the Ski Cross team is currently very small (three men and two women), and athletes have to pay their own expenses. The US Ski Cross team is sending two men to compete in the debut of ski cross at the Olympics, but it is not sending either of its female athletes. I am unsure why, it could be due to funding (if you know, feel free to leave a comment).
Men’s ski cross debuts on February 21st, while the women’s ski cross events will take place on the 23rd.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:31 am
I have stunned myself and begun to get involved in the skicross by following the olympics in . At the beginning it looked like a way to fall on your bottom or break a leg but now I gather it has all the excitement of a madcap race through a shopping mall. At the present moment I am absorbing as much as I can on the event from the Net. Then after that I will be checking somewhere to have a try like the nearby rollerball dome. Do you need to be truly crazy?
May 15th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Hi. Thanks for using my picture. But this picture is not on public domain: it’s copyrited under free licence CC-BY-SA ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ). So, you must respect terms of this licence : attribute picture to his author (me), and write also that this picture is availiable only on the licence CC-BY-SA. If you want, it easy for you to make that the little “thumbnail” is clickable, to go to the origin, here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skicross2010ContaminesQuart_Puckett_Hayer_Gasser_2.JPG
I’m sorry to tell you without changing anything, it’s a violation of my right and of the licence. Thank you.
Manu
June 18th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
It’s currently available as a Creative Commons photo. You have been attributed. If you don’t want it listed as a Commons Photo, then remove the license (it’s currently on Wikipedia) and let me know that it has been removed. Thanks.
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:07 am
Thank you very much. Manu
(you can now remove my demand and your response if you want…)