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Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948–1980, the Winter Olympics acted as the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Olympic years (a separate competition was also held in every other even-numbered year). During those years, extra World Championships medals were awarded in the combined using the results of the slalom and downhill, since the combined did not become an official Winter Olympics event until 1988. Since 1985, the World Championships have been scheduled in every odd year, independent of the Winter Olympics.

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People began strapping skis to their feet as far back as 5000 years ago. It is believed that Norwegians were the first - they used skis as a way of hunting across snow-covered terrain. From Norway, skiing spread throughout Scandinavia and Russia as a mode of winter transportation and eventually as a sport similar to cross-country skiing. Alpine skiing evolved from cross-country skiing. The first alpine skiing competition, a primitive downhill, was held in the 1850s in Oslo. A few decades later, the sport spread to the remainder of Europe and to the United States, where miners held skiing competitions to entertain themselves during the winter. The first slalom was organized in 1922 in Mrren, Switzerland, and two years later such a race became the first Olympic Alpine event. The Arlberg-Kandahar, a combined slalom and downhill event, is now referred to as the first legitimate Alpine event - the race that planted the seed for Alpine's inclusion in the Olympic program.

Skiing grew more popular in the early 1900's, as Europeans learned about all of the fun their Norwegian neighbors were having. The sport still utilized Nordic equipment during much of this time. This is illustrated with events included in the first Winter Olympic Games. The inaugural 1924 Games in Chamonix, France had only 5 sports, and the skiing events were both Nordic: Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined. This continued until Cross-Country Skiing first made the Olympic agenda as a stand alone event during the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.

As skiing was taken to ever more challenging terrain, however, technique and equipment adapted to the challenge. The Telemark turn was adequate for the flatter, rolling terrain of Norway, but lacked the control necessary for the steeper slopes of the Alps and other European mountains. This lead to the birth of Alpine skiing.

Alpine ski equipment used a boot that was mounted to the ski at both the toe and the heel, and gave more control to the skier, allowing him/her to negotiate steeper slopes and ski at faster speeds. The Alpine skiing disciplines of downhill and slalom came about with this new equipment, and the 1936 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, saw the first introduction of an alpine ski event: the combined, which added a skier's results in both events.

It was during the 1930's that alpine skiing became a popular European pastime, as ski lifts were invented that eliminated the labor of climbing a mountain before experiencing an exhilarating descent. The ski area industry began in earnest after the Second World War, when Austria and Switzerland developed the first Alpine Ski Resorts.

During the past 60 years different schools of thought have grew up around skiing, with advocates for different techniques and disciplines vying for the recognition as the best form of the sport.

Giant Slalom combined aspects of both previous disciplines, and first made the Olympic Games during the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics.

Super G, A hybrid of Giant Slalom and Downhill, added a fourth alpine ski discipline when it was added to World Cup events in 1983, and the Olympics in 1988.

During this time equipment manufacturers developed faster and safer equipment, and athletes combined this new equipment with better training and technique to continuously improve the sport.

While the debate still goes on about which is the premier skiing discipline, one thing is for sure: the growth in popularity of all forms of skiing, and the fact that they are sports that can be enjoyed for a lifetime, has meant that each skiing discipline has grown. Each has been embraced and championed by its aficionados.

The legacy left to us by skiing's long history is that each winter brings us an increasing number of ways to enjoy winter, and to race against each other on snow.

Ever heard this before: "First one down the hill wins!"

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