Sentences with phrase «giant slalom»
"Giant slalom" is a type of skiing race where skiers go down a slope filled with unevenly spaced poles called gates. The skiers have to quickly change direction around these gates to reach the finish line as fast as possible. Full definition
«The next goal is for [Shiffrin] to be on the same level in giant slalom as slalom,» said U.S. Alpine director Patrick Riml.
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Snowboarding is her strong suit, as she won gold in parallel giant slalom at world championships in 2016, and placed in the top 30 in three events at skiing worlds.
SKIING — BILLY KIDD of Stowe, Vt. scored the first U.S. win in a major Alpine race in Europe in two years, winning one of two giant slalom events in Meg √ ® ve, France.
The Varsity race format consists of two runs of giant slalom (GS) followed by two runs of slalom (SL) with collated times of the fastest four in each team in each event being input to the scoring system.
Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic celebrates winning gold in the ladies» snowboard parallel giant slalom at the Pyeongchang Olympic Games Saturday.
SKIING — GORDON EATON, Middlebury College sophomore, handily won the national giant slalom championship at Pinkham Notch, N.H. over Marvin Moriarty of Stowe, Vt..
ESPN senior writer Alyssa Roenigk learned the true meaning behind the Special Olympics oath by competing in the Unified snowboarding giant slalom race in Austria.
Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin kisses her gold medal on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's alpine skiing giant slalom.
D'Arcy Marsh of Putney, Vt. won downhill and Lindley Southerland of Woodstock, Vt. took giant slalom.
Then in October she began the new season by winning her first World Cup giant slalom event.
Fifteen year old Jamie Casselman, former KAT ski racer, qualified for the Trofeo Topolino FIS slalom and giant slalom races in Folgaria, Italy on March 4 - 5, 2016.
Sitting in second place after two giant slalom runs the day before, Bryant turned in a fast final slalom run to capture the title.
Penguin Ski Club giant slalom Jan. 15.
Swiss champion Marie - Theres Nadig, 25, winner of both downhill and giant slalom gold medals in Sapporo in 1972, has taken six of seven downhills in Europe this season.
However, when it comes to skiing, the Super G is the super giant slalom, of course.
5 Harvard - Yale - Princeton Slalom, Harvard Ski Club, Hillmans Highway, Pinkham Notch, N.H. 6 Sugarloaf Giant Slalom, men - women open, Sugarloaf Mt., Kingfield, Maine.
5 NATIONAL VETERANS GIANT SLALOM CHAMPIONSHIPS, Taos Winter Sports Club, Taos, N. Mex.
Strung out along the steep headwall near the top of KT - 22, spectators and competitors watch a racer dart through a gate on the first pitch of the men's giant slalom course, considered one of the world's finest racing trails
But he hit an instant spotlight when he won the first giant slalom of the year in Val d'Is √ ® re in December.
More than 100 entries received for Class C eastern giant slalom here Jan. 15.
Dave Harwood of Dartmouth won Louis Orvis giant slalom.
Three days earlier she had finished a game but disappointing fifth in the rain - swept giant slalom; now she was poised to win the first of many gold medals and smile winningly for a nation of television viewers.
Shiffrin's performance in the slalom — three days after a hard - earned but disappointing fifth in a rainy giant slalom — was breathtaking.
Here you go into a series of small turns, which could be called high - speed giant slalom turns.
Road to the Olympics will also offer up other new gameplay modes like Slopestyle, Halfpipe, Super G, Big Air, and Giant Slalom set across new locations in both South Korea and Japan.
It's mainly second - and third - gear stuff, a seemingly endless giant slalom with spindly fir trees acting as gates.
There are over 20 countries represented in the game, so you can fight for national pride; There are 14 different sporting events, including giant slalom, short - track speedskating and freestyle snowboarding.
«Both my skiers did well with Pramod Thapa getting a 4th in slalom behind the U.S.A. and Canadian National teams; and Mel Pemble a gold in junior giant slalom.
U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her second career gold medal and her first of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's giant slalom at the Yongpyong Alpine Center in South Korea.
When she returned, she won slalom and giant slalom events throughout New England while competing for a tri-state team representing Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
She went on to win gold in parallel giant slalom snowboarding as well, making her the first woman to win two gold medals in different sports at the same Olympic Games.
In Kranjska Gora, Yugoslavia, MATEJA SVET won a women's World Cup giant slalom and a slalom.
PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN of Switzerland won the men's giant slalom championship after placing sixth in that finale.
That's where the similarities end, especially since Shiffrin is a giant slalom racer and Vonn is an alpine (also known as downhill) skier.
Shiffrin actually switched from slalom to giant slalom, and now has a gold in both events.
Mikaela Shriffrin is one of the best skiers on the planet, specializing in slalom and giant slalom.
He'll be looking to change that in Pyeongchang, where he's the projected favorite to win the slalom and giant slalom events.
Among these five events, slalom and giant slalom are «technical» disciplines, while super-G and downhill are «speed» events.
After weather - related delays postponed her first scheduled event, she collected her first gold medal of 2018 in giant slalom.
Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.
SKIING — STEVE MAHRE won his first World Cup event, the slalom, at Stratton, Vt., and his twin brother PHIL took the giant slalom, his second straight World Cup triumph.
Ingemar Stenmark, who was runner - up in the slalom, has clinched the title in that event, the giant slalom, and the overall Cup title for the third consecutive year.
After the Giant Slalom the Oxford men were trailing by 0.21 s, but recovered in the Slalom to claim this year's bragging rights, by the tightest of margins!
Sally Deaver, perky, pretty Whitemarsh, Pa. skier, won two giant slalom events but lost chance for combined title when officials ruled she missed gate in third race of Grand Prix de Savoie at Val D'Isere, France.
NI ORSI, 16, of Stockton, Calif., took both the downhill and giant slalom in the National Junior Alpine championship in Kingsfield, Me.
INGRID SIMONSON, 14 - year - old high school student from Yakima, Wash., won the girls» downhill and giant slalom.