Alpine Skiing At The 1988 Winter Olympics – Women's Slalom
The Women's slalom competition of the Calgary 1988 Olympics was held at Nakiska. The defending world champion was Erika Hess of Switzerland, while Switzerland's Corinne Schmidhauser was the defending World Cup slalom champion and Switzerland's Vreni Schneider the leader of the 1988 World Cup. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics - Women's slalom Women's slalom Alp Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician * Oly Hicks (born 1968 ...

Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for recreation or for sport, it is typically practiced at ski resorts, which provide such services as ski lifts, artificial snow making, snow grooming, restaurants, and ski patrol. "Off-piste" skiers—those skiing outside ski area boundaries—may employ snowmobiles, helicopters or snowcats to deliver them to the top of a slope. Back-country skiers may use specialized equipment with a free-heel mode, including 'sticky' skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent. Alpine skiing has been an event at the Winter Olympic Games since 1936. A competition corresponding to modern slalom was introduced in Oslo in 1886. Participants and venues ...
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Paola Magoni
Paola "Paoletta" Magoni (married name Sforza, born 14 September 1964) is an Italian former alpine skier. Career At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, she won the slalom event in front of Perrine Pelen and Ursula Konzett. She also won a bronze medal in slalom at the Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 were held in Bormio, northern Italy between January 31 and February 10, 1985. :de:Alpine Skiweltmeisterschaft 1985 These were the first world championships held in an odd-numbered year, and the last wit ... in Bormio. World Cup victories References External links

* 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from the Province of Bergamo Skiers from Lombardy Italian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Italy Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics {{Italy-alpine ...
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