About Alpine Skiing

Alpine Skiing (Alpine Skiing) is a snow racing sport with skis, snowshoes, bindings and poles as the main equipment, from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, along the track set by the flag gate. There are men's events, women's events and mixed events in Olympic Alpine Skiing. The men's and women's events each have five disciplines: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super slalom, and all-around, while the mixed event is a mixed team competition. Among them, Slalom and Giant Slalom are speed events, which are decided according to the results of one skate. The slalom and giant slalom are technical events, with the two slalom scores combined.

Alpine skiing originated in the Alps, so it is also called "Alpine skiing". Alpine skiing is gradually formed on the basis of cross-country skiing, is a branch of snow sports. It is generally believed that alpine skiing was born in 1907, this year the first alpine skiing sports organization "Alpine Ski Club" was founded. 1920s, alpine skiing competitions have been held in the Alpine region, all kinds of alpine skiing school was established. 1936, alpine skiing has been classified as the Winter Olympic Games.

Alpine skiing was included in the International Ski Federation (FIS) as part of the snow sports, which was founded in 1924 and organizes competitions such as the World Alpine Ski Championships.