Answer: St. Moritz
St. Moritz hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships for the fifth time in 2017 - having previously held the event in 1934, 1948, 1974 and 2003. The resort had also previously hosted the second-ever edition of the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and it became a two-time Olympic host in 1948 as the world championships were held in conjunction with the Winter Olympics in that year.
The 2017 world championships events - men's and women's downhill, alpine combined, slalom, giant slalom and super-G, plus a mixed team event - all took place on the Piz Nair mountain, whose peak is over 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) above sea level.
Kitzbühel (Austria), Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy) and Courchevel (France) are all resorts that hosted Alpine Ski World Cup events during the 2017-18 season. Of them, only Cortina d'Ampezzo had hosted a Winter Olympic Games prior to the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships (the 7th Games in 1956).
From Quiz: 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships
Answer: Maria Riesch (GER)
Maria Riesch won the World Cup at the end of the season ahead of Lindsey Vonn by a margin of only 3 points. Tina Maze was third in front of Elisabeth Gorgl.
From Quiz: Alpine Skiing: 2010-11 Season
Answer: Morgedal
Olaf Rye was a lieutenant from Norway ( Norwegian- Danish) who jumped 9.5 meters in front of other soldiers, thus effectively becoming the father of ski jumping.
From Quiz: Ski Jumping
Answer: 90 km
The grueling 90 km course has numerous climbs as it twists through the Swedish province of Dalarna.
From Quiz: Vasaloppet
Answer: slider
"Slider" is the most common, but "luger" is occasionally heard.
From Quiz: Win Some, Luge Some
Answer: Charles Minot Dole
Charles Minot "Minnie" Dole organized a volunteer patrol for the National Downhill Races at Stowe, Vermont.
From Quiz: National Ski Patrol
Answer: Tasmania
Ben Lomond and Mt Mawson are Tasmania's ski resorts. Ben Lomond extends to 14.2 hectares while Mt Mawson is smaller still.
From Quiz: Ski The World
Answer: Telluride
Butch Cassidy, birth name Robert Leroy Parker, and three other men robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colorado, stealing $21,000, on June 24, 1889. After a spell in prison, he formed 'The Wild Bunch' in about 1896. Harry Longabaugh, "The Sundance Kid", was one of the men who joined. The ski resort of Telluride extends to about 2,000 acress and has 115 trails. [Source tellurideskiresort.com, December 2008]
From Quiz: Ski The Americas
Answer: Val d'Isere
The 'OK' piste was named after Jean Claude Killy and Henri Oreiller. Although neither was born in Val d'Isere, they were brought up and based there. Killy won three gold medals at the Grenoble Olympics of 1968, while Oreiller won two golds at St Moritz 20 years previously.
From Quiz: European Ski Resorts
Answer: Jake Burton
Although the Snurfer was around first, Burton implemented key adaptations such as rigid bindings, allowing the snowboard to be more functional on the slopes. He founded Burton Snowboards in 1977, which continues to thrive today.
From Quiz: Skiing and Snowboarding Smorgasbord
Answer: Black
The European order from easiest to most difficult is green, blue, red, black.
The North American order from easiest to most difficult is green, blue, black diamond, and double black diamond.
From Quiz: Skiing Verities and Balderdash
Answer: Bode Miller
Bode Miller led throughout, from start to finish.
From Quiz: Ski Racing Mania
Answer: a ski with a raised tail so you are able to land backwards
Twin tip skis are now made by almost every ski company.
From Quiz: Free Skiing
Answer: 4
From Quiz: Janica Kostelic
Answer: Downhill
Slalom is the slowest but most difficult type of racing because the gates are very close together. Giant Slalom or GS is faster and less turny. Super-G is one more step towards high speed because they are less gates and they are more spread apart. Downhill is the fastest race type. There are very few gates, and they are set almost in a straight line.
From Quiz: Alpine Ski Racing
Answer: Winterplace
Winterplace is one of West Virginia's most popular ski resorts.
From Quiz: Ski Resorts
Answer: Stefan Eberharter
After becoming a double World Champion at the age 21 in Super-G and combined as the youngest member of the Austrian squad, Stefan struggled with injuries in the following seasons. He lost his spot on the National team after more disappointing results, but he qualified himself back into the team in 1997. The rest is history, and Stefan won a silver medal at the Nagano Winter Olympics.
From Quiz: Ski World Cup
Answer: Slalom
Because of the technicality of Slalom, seconds can be shaved off by allowing only your skis to go around the gate and your body to block the gate. Thus, the bamboo gates needed to be replaced because they would snap when blocked by the racer.
From Quiz: General Ski Racing
Answer: Poland
On 23-Feb-01 Malysz became World Champion on the 90m hill at Lahti, Finland. He had a healthy lead over defending champion Martin Schmitt in the World Cup standings with several events left in the season, and went on to become World Cup champion that year.
From Quiz: Ski Jumpers Nationalities
Answer: Nicole Schmidhofer
Nicole Schmidhofer was 27 years old and competing in her third Alpine Ski World Championships when she became the somewhat unexpected winner of the women's super-G event, ahead of top racers Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein and Lara Gut of Switzerland in silver and bronze medal positions, respectively. Other big names such as the USA's Lindsay Vonn and Austria's reigning Olympic champion, Anna Veith, failed to finish the course.
Schmidhofer's previous best results on the international stage were a second-place finish in the super-G at a World Cup event in 2013, a third-place finish in the downhill at another World Cup event a year later, and fourth place in the downhill at the 2015 world championships.
The incorrect options were all Austrian Olympic super-G champions - Andrea Fischbacher won in 2010 and Michaela Dorfmeister won in 2006 (and took downhill gold as well).
From Quiz: 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships
Answer: 1356
Kostelic won the World Cup with 1356 points and thus gathering more points than the winner of the two previous years, Carlo Janka (1197) and Aksel Lund Svindal(1009)had. In the 2007-08 season, Bode Miller won the World Cup with 1409 points.
From Quiz: Alpine Skiing: 2010-11 Season
Answer: 138m
With two golds, in the Individual Normal Hill event ( with jumps of 105.0, and 108.0, respectively), and in the Individual Large Hill event (with jumps of 144.0 and 138.0), Ammann became the first man to win 4 individual gold medals at the Olympic Games ( Matti Nykanen also won four, but one was with the Finnish ski jumping national team).
From Quiz: Ski Jumping
Answer: 1922
It was won in 1922 by Ernst Alm with a time of 7:32:49.
From Quiz: Vasaloppet
Answer: steels
The steels under the sled are made from sharpened steel. The "bows" are the curved front parts of the runners. The "bridges" connect the runners to the rest of the sled. "Blades" and "skates" are more proper terms for ice hockey and figure skates.
From Quiz: Win Some, Luge Some
Answer: 1938
Roger Langley, president of National Ski Association asked Minnie Dole to organize a national patrol in 1938.
From Quiz: National Ski Patrol
Answer: Sundance
Sundance is a ski resort in Utah that was bought by Robert Redford in 1969. It had operated as a resort called Timphaven since the 1950s and he renamed it after the character he played in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). The resort has 41 trails in 450 acres. It also became the home of the Sundance Film Festival. See www.sundanceresort.com
From Quiz: Ski The Americas
Answer: Arapahoe Basin
Located in the Colorado Rockies just west of Denver, Arapahoe Basin boasts a peak elevation of 13,050 feet above sea level. This resort is renowned for its steep, seemingly endless, leg-burning mogul run known as Pallavicini.
From Quiz: Skiing and Snowboarding Smorgasbord
Answer: It was the location of the first robbery by Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) and his gang stole thousands of dollars from the bank in June 1889. The Sundance Kid was not a member of the gang at that time.
From Quiz: Skiing Verities and Balderdash
Answer: Downhill
Downhill is the fastest and most dangerous event of all. Racers are going almost straight downhill at speeds some people would be scared to go at in a car.
From Quiz: Ski Racing Mania
Answer: K2
In 2002, K2 released the seth pistol, Seth Morrisons signature model.
From Quiz: Free Skiing
Answer: Ivica
Ivica is also a great skier.
From Quiz: Janica Kostelic
Answer: A ski with sidecut
When parabolic skis came out, they were very popular because the sidecut in them made it easier to turn. Now there are rules for how much sidecut a ski can have because it was getting dangerous
From Quiz: Alpine Ski Racing
Answer: Killington
The longest mogul slope is Outer Limits in Killington, VT.
From Quiz: Ski Resorts
Answer: Rossignol
From Quiz: General Ski Racing
Answer: Germany
Though he lost to Malysz in the season-long World Cup, Schmitt performed well at the World Championships.
From Quiz: Ski Jumpers Nationalities
Answer: Extreme skier
Glen Plake is getting geezerish but is still the coolest skier in all of huckdom.
From Quiz: All About Skiing
Answer: Oldest world champion
Erik Guay was competing in his seventh Alpine World Ski Championships in 2017 and was 35 years and 187 days old when he won the super-G title. This made him the oldest skier to take a world championship gold medal, as the previous record-holder, Hannes Reichelt of Austria, had been just 34 years and 215 days old when he won the super-G event at the 2015 championships.
In addition to taking the gold medal in the super-G, Guay also won a silver medal in the downhill event. He had previously won the world championship title in downhill at the 2011 championships held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
From Quiz: 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships
Answer: Austria
Austria hosted 14 races including the classic combined at Kitzbuhel and the canceled men's season opening in Solden. The other Austrian venues were Semmering, Zauchensee, Flachau, Schladming, and Hinterstoder. Switzerland hosted 13 races, Italy 12, and France 8.
From Quiz: Alpine Skiing: 2010-11 Season
Answer: 21 March 1970
Bogataj was competing at the Ski Jumping World Championships in Oberstdorf, when on 21 March 1970 he fell, rather spectacularly. He only suffered a concussion.
From Quiz: Ski Jumping
Answer: Salen to Mora
The course winds through several other towns, about 10 km apart, where food, drink, and medical services are provided.
From Quiz: Vasaloppet