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Maxime Dufour-Lapointe
Maxime Dufour-Lapointe (born February 9, 1989) is a Canadians, Canadian freestyle skiing, freestyle skier from Montréal, Quebec. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Canada in Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's moguls, moguls. Dufour-Lapointe is the oldest of three sisters to compete at the Winter Olympics with her younger sisters Chloé Dufour-Lapointe and Justine Dufour-Lapointe both being world champion medalists and Olympic medalists. This was the fifth time that three siblings have competed at the same event at the Winter Games. Personal life Dufour-Lapointe is currently studying medicine at the University of Montreal. References External links * Official websiteFreestyle Skiing Canada profile * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dufour-Lapointe, Maxime 1989 births Living people Canadian female freestyle skiers French Quebecers Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Skiers from Montreal Olympic freestyle skiers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Skiing
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the 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 1971, Waterville Valley Hosted the first Professional Freestyle Skiing Competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
