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Alpine Skiing – Sports – Vancouver 2010
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The alpine skiing
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competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics will be held at Whistler, British Columbia
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. The events were due to be held between 13 March, and 21 March 2010. Events scheduled for 13 March, however, were postponed due to weather conditions – specifically, low visibility.
In the Women's sitting giant slalom, Alana Nichols
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Nichols was born in New Mexico and when she was nine months old, her father was killed by a drunk driver. Because her ...
of the United States – a Paralympic champion in basketball from Beijing
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in 2008 – won her first of two skiing gold medals, becoming a rare winter-summer gold medalist. On 18 March, Viviane Forest
Viviane Forest (born 14 May 1979) is a Canadian multi-sport Paralympic medallist. She was born and raised in Quebec, and currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.
Sporting career
Forest played on Canada's gold medal-winning goalball teams in Sydn ...
became the first Canadian athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Paralympics, by winning the Women's Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000
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and 2004
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Summer Paralympics for women's goalball
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Lauren Woolstencroft
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sets the gold medal record with 5 gold medals, for most gold medals won by any Winter Paralympian at a single Games.
Medal table
Events
The competition events are: *Downhill
Downhill may refer to:
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: women
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– men
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*Super-G
Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...
: women
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– men
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*Giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...
: women
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– men
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*Slalom
To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to:
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;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding
* Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
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: women
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– men
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*Super combined
Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. A traditional combined competition consists of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, each discipline runs on separate days. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time. (Until the 1990s ...
: women
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– men
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Each event has separate men's and women's competitions and separate standing, sitting, and visually impaired classifications. Visually impaired skiers compete with the help of a sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.
Sports Paralympic Games
At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.
Rules are according to the Internationa ...
. The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.thestar.com, 13 March 2010
Women's events
Men's events
Competition Schedule
All times arePacific Standard Time
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( UTC-8).
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, , Day 2 , , Sat 13 Mar, , , 11:30 , , Downhill Men & Women (all classes)
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, , Day 3 , , Sun 14 Mar, , , 11:30 , , Super-G Men & Women (Standing)
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, , Day 4 , , Mon 15 Mar, , , 11:30 , , Super-G Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
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, rowspan=2, Day 5 , , rowspan=2, Tue 16 Mar, , , 9:30 , , rowspan=2, Super Combined Men & Women (all classes)
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, rowspan=2, Day 7 , , rowspan=2, Thu 18 Mar, , , 10:00 , , rowspan=2, Giant Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
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, rowspan=2, Day 8 , , rowspan=2, Fri 19 Mar, , , 10:00 , , rowspan=2, Giant Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
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, rowspan=2, Day 9 , , rowspan=2, Sat 20 Mar, , , 10:00 , , rowspan=2, Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
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, rowspan=2, Day 10 , , rowspan=2, Sun 21 Mar, , , 10:00 , , rowspan=2, Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
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See also
*Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Canada at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, north of Vancouver. The ten events were scheduled for 13–27 February; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, t ...
References
Alpine Skiing – Sports – Vancouver 2010
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, athletes = 506
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, closing = 21 March
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2010 Winter Paralympics events
Paralympics
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...