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The Top 7 Olympic Winter Sports That Didn’t Make the Cut

Suzy Chaffee

The Winter Olympic Games are not even 100 years old. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and in those 98 years some disciplines and events have come and gone. For the 2028 games in Milan/Cortina, Italy, a new discipline was added with dual moguls, taking it to a total of 16 disciplines and 116 separate […]

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Julia Schneemann | October 11, 2022
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VIDEO: Ski Ballet In 2017? | Jonny Moseley Shows Us How It’s Done

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Chris Wallner | April 13, 2017
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VIDEO: 1985 Breckenridge Ski Ballet

In what might be the most 80’s thing you’ve seen this week, we reflect on ski ballet- a bizarre, glorious sport that brought together figure skating and freestyle skiing. While their puffy-sleeved jackets are hilarious, these guys were at the top of their game. This stuff takes skill, but more so, some serious bravado – like Richard Schabl’s fabulous back-tuck somersalt entrance to his 1985 routine in Breckenridge, CO:

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ameliatraynor | March 4, 2015
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Ski Ballet Flashback | Rune Kristiansen, Master of Ski Ballet

Behold, Rune Kristiansen, the Norweigian ski ballet legend. Kristiansen won gold in the FIS ski ballet championship in 1995. During his career he won a total of 54 world cup victories. Ski ballet didn’t last very long; it shone too brightly […]

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SnowBrains | March 28, 2014
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