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5 unusual facts about Ski


Marianopolis College

Some student clubs also practice various other sports such as rowing, dragon boat, skiing , tennis etc.

Martha Hall Findlay

Hall Findlay was overall silver medallist in the 1976 Canadian Ski Championship, and was named to the national training squad before retiring from competition to concentrate on her education.

Michael Pössinger

At the end of 1941 he received an order from the Commanding Officer of the 1st Mountain Division to form a Ski company.

Ski

It was popularized by Sondre Norheim of Morgedal in Telemark, when he demonstrated the ski and the Telemark style of skiing to the public at Christiana, Norway beginning in 1868.

Skidoo

Ski-Doo, a brand of snowmobiles produced by Bombardier Recreational Products; a generic term for all snowmobiles in much of Canada


Aker University Hospital

The hospital is responsible for providing health care to 170,000 people residing in the northern part of Oslo as well as the municipalities of Ski, Oppegård, Nesodden, Frogn, Ås and Vestby.

Auxiliary Units

Calvert had recently served in the 5th Battalion, Scots Guards, which had been formed to fight as a ski-troop in Finland.

Beskid

Beskid (ski), heavy-duty Soviet tourist skis for mountain skiing manufactured in Mukacheve

Bluewood Ski Area

Will Brandenburg, a World Cup racer with the U.S. Ski Team, learned to ski and race at Bluewood in the 1990s.

Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

Émile Paganon

The family lived in the French district Vercors, when he served as a ski reconnaissance platoon leader in the 6th Bataillon de chasseurs alpins in Gresse from 1941 to 1943 during World War II.

Farquet

Damien Farquet (b. 1971), Swiss ski mountaineer and cross-country skier

Fernie Alpine Resort

During spring 2009, Fernie Alpine Resort was temporarily transformed into the fictional Kodiak Valley ski resort, circa 1986, for exterior location shots for the Hollywood film Hot Tub Time Machine.

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1993

The 1993 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between March 11th and March 14th at the Altenmarkt ski resort in Austria.

Grand Highway of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park

Also nearby are the important Abruzzo ski resorts, Prati di Tivo and Prato Selva.

Greg Otterholt

As an athlete, Otterholt has been seen on television's Wide World of Sports for ski racing, played for the World Cup Soccer Tournament with the U.S. Amputee exhibition team, and appeared in the pages of Golf Digest after hitting a "one-handed" hole in one.

Head Standard

A number of metal skis were introduced over the years, among them the 1942 All Magnesium, a post-war run of 1,000 Metalite aluminum skis from Chance Vought, the stainless steel Chris Ski, the aluminum Alu-60 (later known as the TEY True-Flex), the Dow Metal Air Ski, and the Gomme from the UK.

Hockley Valley

The Hockley Valley Resort is a ski retreat, golf course, conference centre, and hotel in Mono, Ontario, Canada.

Island Lake Lodge

Island Lake Mountain Tours began as a small back-country ski touring operation on the property in 1986, leasing the land from Shell Oil Company.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Jindabyne, New South Wales

Jindabyne is a service town for Australia's highest ski resorts: Perisher, Thredbo and Charlotte Pass.

John Urquhart Cameron

A member of a distinguished extended family of journalists which included James Cameron he wrote articles for The Courier, The Scotsman, The Good Ski Guide, The Good Holiday Magazine and The Scottish Review.

Kilkenny, New Hampshire

The Willard Bowl north of Mount Waumbek, drained by Garland Brook, was considered as a site for development of a ski area in 1971, when it was owned by former governor Hugh Gregg.

Liptovský Mikuláš

The area is also well-known due to its location close to the biggest ski resort in Slovakia, Jasná.

Madshus

The first Madshus ski were produced by Martin Madshus in 1906 in a barn in Vardal near Gjøvik.

Mariusz Wargocki

He started ski mountaineering in 1999 and competed first in a race in Štrbské Pleso in 2005.

Miklosa

Matjaž Mikloša (b. 1975), Slovenian ski mountaineer and long-distance runner

Mount Hood Golf Club

It was built in the 1930s on donated land as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and once consisted of a ski area.

Mount Raimer

Originally known as Petersburg Pass Ski Area, the base lodge and parking lots were located adjacent to the height of land on New York State Route 2.

Nestinari Nunataks

Nestinari Nunataks (Nestinarski Nunatatsi \ne-sti-'nar-ski 'nu-na-ta-tsi\) are a pair of rocky peaks of elevation 470 m and 520 m in middle Huron Glacier, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Oddvar Saga

Already in 1963 the ski jumpers Torgeir Brandtzæg, Toralf Engan, Bjørn Wirkola, Hans Olav Sørensen and Thorbjørn Yggeseth were as good as ready, and one was looking for a sixth man on the team.

Ore Mountain/Krušné hory Ski Trail

Another cross-country ski route, the so-called Kammloipe trail runs from Schöneck in the Vogtland region via Mühlleithen to Johanngeorgenstadt in the Western Ore Mountains.

Patrik Nordin

He started ski mountaineering in 1997 and competed first in the Swedish Cup race in Åre in the same year.

Peter Prevc

His first individual victory in World Cup took place in January 2014 at Kulm flying hill, which also brought him the overall ski flying victory in the World Cup in the 2013-14 season.

Robert Antonioli

Antonioli was born in Sondalo, started ski mountaineering in 2004, and took part in his first competition race in 2006.

Rocky Valley Dam

The Rocky Valley Dam is located on the Bogong High Plains, near Falls Creek, Victoria, a winter ski resort.

Ryste

Bodil Ryste (b. 1979), Norwegian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier

Schanzen Einsiedeln

The Einsiedeln now hosts the World Cup of ski jumping the Summer Grand Prix competitions in both Ski jumping and Nordic combined every year.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Sella Ronda

The Sellaronda is the ski circuit around the Sella group.

Ski Museum of Maine

In early 2009 the museum completed the acquisition of a set of miniature skis that were crafted circa 1905 in Portland, Maine, by Theo A. Johnsen and used by him as a marketing tool for his Tajco brand ski equipment.

Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009

At the resort itself, Georgian Peaks, the tornado tore the roof from the Alpine Centre, pulled cables from chair lifts and ripped apart lift houses and ski ramps.

Spademan binding

Driving to every ski resort in range with a few hundred pairs of bindings, he finally convinced some ski patrollers at Squaw Valley and Boyne Mountain to try them out.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Stoneham Mountain Resort

In 1993 the mountain hosted a slalom event of the alpine skiing World Cup, won by one of the most dominant alpine ski racers in history, Alberto Tomba of Italy.

Sun Valley Serenade

The film became a Hollywood hit, and served as a recruiting effort for the elite ski corps of the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Camp Hale in Colorado.

Svene

Famous ski jumper Per Bergerud hails from Svene, he competed for the local sports team Svene IL.

Trzy Korony

In the ski village of Sromowce Niżne at the southern foot of the Three Crowns, there's a popular hostel operated by PTTK called the Three Crowns.

Väisänen

Mervi Väisänen (born 1973), Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor

Valentin Bozhkov

Valentin Bozhkov (born May 2, 1958 in Samokov) is a Bulgarian ski jumper that competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Valery Kobelev

The crash was named the worst ski jumping crash ever by sports commentator Arne Scheie.

Varsity Trip

The first event was held in Wengen, Switzerland in 1922, with British students racing against each other and the local Wengen Ski Club.

Wave Race 64

Tomonobu Itagaki, the creator of the Dead or Alive series, included a jet-ski mode on the game Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 because he is a great fan of Wave Race 64.

Wave Rally

Wave Rally, also known as Jet Ski Riders, is a 2001 Jet Ski racing game developed by Opus Studio Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive exclusively for the PlayStation 2.


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