Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely...
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Skiing, or traveling over snow on skis, has a history of at least eight millennia. The earliest archaeological examples of skis were found in Karelia...
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senzacij", p.1, column 4) Ski jumping is a winter sport in which athletes compete on distance and style in a jump from a ski jumping hill. The sport has...
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SkiFree is a single-player skiing computer game created by Chris Pirih and released with Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 for Windows 3.0 in October 1991...
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Matti Nykänen (category FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping)
1963 – 4 February 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won five...
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We Ski is a 2008 skiing video game for the Wii developed and published by Namco Bandai Games. It is the first third-party game (and second game behind...
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The Sierra Nevada Ski Station is a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada in the province of Granada in southeastern Spain. The ski area is on the northwestern...
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Gstaad (category Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland)
Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Saanen and is known as a major ski resort and a popular destination amongst high society and the international...
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Cairn Gorm (redirect from Cairngorm Mountain ski resort)
mountain in Coire Cas and Coire na Ciste have been developed for alpine skiing. The ski lift infrastructure includes a funicular railway in Coire Cas. The...
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Gaspard Ulliel (category Skiing deaths)
2007. "Mort de l'acteur Gaspard Ulliel, 37 ans, après un accident de ski en Savoie" [Death of the actor Gaspard Ulliel, 37 years old, after a skiing actor...
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2007 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering (French: Championnat d'Europe de ski de montagne 2007) was the seventh European Championship of ski mountaineering...
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Short-track speed skating (9) (details) Skeleton (3) (details) Ski jumping (6) (details) Ski mountaineering (3) (details) Snowboarding (11) (details) Speed...
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Holmenkollbakken (redirect from Holmenkollen ski jump)
Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and...
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Eileen Gu (category Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing)
since 2019. At age 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe, and a silver medal in...
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World Archery Championships (section Ski Archery)
Para-archery, University archery and 3D archery. A ski archery World Championships was last held in 2007, but is not part of the current rotation. Following...
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likely to have participated in winter sports such as ice hockey, skating, skiing and snowboarding, compared with immigrants, who were more likely to have...
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Kílian Jornet Burgada (category Spanish male ski mountaineers)
27 October 1987) is a Spanish professional long-distance trail runner and ski mountaineer. Jornet has won some of the most prestigious ultramarathons,...
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Strangers, and Hearts Afire. In 1990, Jordan portrayed the ski patrol director in Ski Patrol. In 2007, he guest-starred on the comedy drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher...
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generally enjoys a ski season from late November to early April, depending on weather conditions. Outside of the ski season, some of the ski lift facilities...
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"Fredrik Ericsson's Partner Michele Fait Plummets to Death on K2 | News". The Ski Channel. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2012...
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star one of five dead in bloody ski resort massacre". nzherald.co.nz. October 6, 2019. "Samvel Mnatsyan passed away". en.khl.ru. October 6, 2019. "The Snezhnye...
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S. Ski Team, operating under the auspices of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, develops and supports men's and women's athletes in the sports of alpine skiing, freestyle...
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Changchunans. Combining the movements of a ski jumper and a short-track speed skater, the emblem of the 2007 Asian Winter Games consisted of two Chinese...
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Whiteface Mountain (redirect from Whiteface Ski Resort)
slope is home to a major ski area which boasts the greatest vertical drop east of the Rockies, and which hosted the alpine skiing competitions of the 1980...
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Tignes (category Ski resorts in France)
Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good...
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Andalusia (category States and territories established in 2007)
9 February 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2008. ...identidad histórica, en el autogobierno que la Constitución permite a toda nacionalidad, en plena igualdad...
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Hubertus von Hohenlohe (category Articles with unsourced statements from February 2007)
retire following the 2007 Alpine Skiing World Championships, after breaking his leg during a World Cup slalom race on 28 January 2007, eliminating him from...
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fractures. Van Gass first learned to ski and took part in competitions as a member of the Combined Services Disabled Ski Team. In 2011, he was the first South...
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Tupolev Tu-144 (redirect from Concord-ski)
takeoff, failures continued to multiply. While the aircraft was supersonic en route to the destination airport, Tupolev bureau's crisis centre predicted...
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