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SKIING
PROTECTING TEENS OR EXPANDING A 'NANNY STATE'? Proposals that would bar California high school students from buying Gatorade on campus, ban metal bats from their baseball games and require them to wear helmets while skiing are drawing criticism.
Source: Politics - 08/05/2010
Category: Los Angeles Times SKI HELMETS DO NOT INCREASE NECK INJURIES: STUDY NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite concerns that the extra weight of a helmet could cause neck injuries during skiing accidents, that doesn't seem to be the case, according to Canadian researchers.
Source: Health - 07/05/2010
Category: Reuters C. R. JOHNSON, X GAMES MEDALIST IN FREE SKIING, DIES AT 26 Mr. Johnson was an X Games medalist in two disciplines, and was the first to perform many of free skiing?s maneuvers.
Source: New York Times - 26/02/2010
Category: Sports X GAMES FREESKIER C.R. JOHNSON DIES IN SKIING ACCIDENT
Source: Los Angeles Times - 26/02/2010
Category: Sports LAYING OUT OLYMPIC SKI COURSES FOR FRIEND AND FOE Four of the five Olympic skiing events rely on national-team coaches to set the layout of the course.
Source: New York Times - 23/02/2010
Category: Sports CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: BJOERGEN WINS WOMEN'S 15K PURSUIT FOR 2ND GOLD WHISTLER, British Columbia -- Having finally ended her long wait for an Olympic gold medal, Marit Bjoergen sure was in a hurry to get another one.
Source: Washington Post - 21/02/2010
Category: Sports MISTAKES AND WEATHER OBSCURING RESULTS The Winter Games could be remembered for a series of foibles, accidents, miscalculations and unseasonably warm weather that has scrambled skiing and snowboarding events.
Source: New York Times - 18/02/2010
Category: Sports HARBORING HOPES FOR AN AMERICAN FIRST IN CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Kikkan Randall did not listen to her grandfather eight years ago, and now she has a chance to be the first American woman to win a medal in cross-country skiing.
Source: New York Times - 17/02/2010
Category: Sports OLYMPIANS HAVE ALPINE SKIING DOWN TO A SCIENCE No matter who wins the Alpine skiing events at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the whole world will be pulling for them. That's because those events are among the very few in all of sports that are powered entirely by Earth's gravitational field. The skiers' jo
Source: Washington Post - 16/02/2010
Category: Sports INSIDE THE RINGS: GIVING IN TO EMOTION, MILLER GETS A BRONZE Four years after leaving the Turin Games with no medals and a tarnished reputation, Bode Miller rediscovered the excitement of skiing in the Olympics in Vancouver.
Source: New York Times - 16/02/2010
Category: Sports MILLER'S CROSSING: FROM TABLOID TARGET TO FOCUSED FLIER Four years ago in Turin, Bode Miller earned gold medals in bad publicity, not skiing. In Vancouver, the two-time World Cup overall champion is ready to compete at an Olympic level again.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 15/02/2010
Category: Sports ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DELAY FOR ALPINE SKIING AT WHISTLER Women's downhill training is postponed because of poor conditions and a new schedule for competition is set.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 15/02/2010
Category: Sports MILLER, SKIING ON HIS TERMS, SAYS OLYMPICS LURED HIM BACK A four-time Olympian says he probably would have sat out the season if it had not been an Olympic year.
Source: New York Times - 14/02/2010
Category: Sports JIMMIE HEUGA, AN EARLY U.S. SKI MEDALIST, DIES AT 66 Mr. Heuga was one of the first two American men to win an Olympic medal in Alpine skiing. He was also an advocate for multiple sclerosis, the disease that curtailed his athletic career.
Source: New York Times - 12/02/2010
Category: Sports GYM WORKOUTS FOR SKIIERS BEFORE HITTING THE SLOPES I'm not one of those people who doesn't go skiing in the Washington region because the slopes are too puny and the conditions are too icy. Nope, I'm one of those people who doesn't ski around here because sharp poles, slippery surfaces and gravity never s
Source: Washington Post - 11/02/2010
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Focus Skiing by WikipediaSkiing is a group of sports using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding.
Skiing can be grouped into two general categories. The older of the two disciplines, originated in Scandinavia and uses free-heel bindings that attach at the toes of the skier's boots but not at the heels. Types of Nordic skiing include cross-country, ski jumping and Telemark. Alpine skiing (often called "downhill skiing"), originated in the European Alps, and is characterized by fixed-heel bindings that attach at both the toe and the heel of the skier's boot.
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