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Cole McDonald (skier)
Cole McDonald (born March 6, 2003) is an American freestyle skier. He joined the US Ski & Snowboard's U.S. Freestyle Ski Team (Development Team) in July 2021. In the same season as his first World Cup, he earned a spot on the U.S. Men's Moguls Team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the youngest American male mogul skier to participate in the Olympics at 18 years of age. McDonald was named World Cup Rookie of the Year in 2022. Career Early years McDonald was introduced to mogul skiing in his hometown of Park City, Utah when he joineWasatch Freestyleat the age of seven. "When I'm not skiing moguls, I'm skiing moguls in my head," he said in a video from Wasatch Freestyle. He quickly took to the sport and ramped up accolades over the years. Before making the U.S. Ski Team, some of the more recent accolades include a third-place finish at the 2021 U.S. Freestyle Moguls National Championships at Snowbird, Utah; second place at the 2020 NorAm Cup at Val St-Come in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Skiing
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, Mogul Skiing, moguls, Ski Cross, cross, Half-pipe skiing, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis. Known as "hot-dogging" in the early 1970s, it is also commonly referred to as freeskiing, jibbing, as well as many other names, around the world. History Ski acrobatics have been practiced since the 1930s. Aerial skiing was popularized in the 1950s by Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen. Early US competitions were held in the mid-1960s. In 1969, Waterville Valley Ski Area in New Hampshire, formed the first freestyle instruction program, making the resort the birthplace of freestyle skiing. The following year, Corcoran and Doug Pfeiffer, organized the first National Open Championships of Freestyle Skiing on the Sunnyside trails. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
