Bulldogs' season begins for real Friday in Hendersonville. Two scrimmages in three days. Thatâs the task the Murphy High School Bulldogsâ football team found themselves with last week, but it is safe to say they made the most of the preseason action.
skip to content. Freestyle skiing is one of the newest disciplines on the Olympic programme, having made its debut in 1992, when only the moguls were contested. Aerials became an official medal event at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, while ski cross was added to the programme in 2010.
Alpine skiing is the proper term for what most people call downhill skiing. This distinguishes it from nordic skiing (cross-country) and freestyle skiing. International alpine ski racing consists of five men's events and five women's events. The rules and race configurations are the same for men and women, but the courses typically differ in length for the men's and women's events. Types of Alpine Skiing. Downhill is the longest and highest-speed event in alpine ski racing and involves the fewest turns. Each skier makes one run only. The skier with the fastest time is the winner. As in all alpine events, skiers are timed to one hundredth of a second and any ties stand as that.