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4 stories on alpine skiing from SocialSportHub Journal — how its rules, equipment, surfaces and science actually work.
4 stories · 4 kinds of story ·RSS
Analysis
FIS does not tell a course setter how many gates to use. It tells them how many direction changes to make per metre of vertical drop — and slalom's figure is five times giant slalom's, which is nearly twice super-G's, which downhill does not have at all.
Features
FIS will not sanction a race on ground it has not homologated, and the dossier it requires is a portrait of what a venue has to be. Gradients and vertical drop take a few lines. Evacuation, water supply, uphill transport and cable runs take the rest.
One mechanism, taken apart carefully.
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