SKI
Ski is a winter sport and one of the most important events of the Olympic Winter Games. It consists of the balance on the skis, used to slide on the snow.
For thousands of years, ski was an essential transport on the rigorous winters of Scandinavia, in the north of Russia and Central Asia. Just in the nineteenth century the ski started to be a sport, when the Norwegian skiers’ created the first rules and the first skiing competition in the nineteenth century.
In the 1920’s the global expansion of ski began, with ski becoming one of most important sports of the Olympic Winter Games. At that time, the downhill, the slalom, which put together the Nordic jumping and the race (Langlauf racing), by the ISF (International Ski Federation), responsible for the regulation and supervising of the sport at a global level.
Ski has a strong touristic component. After the 2nd World War, Austria and Switzerland implemented lots of ski resorts to capitalize the growing popularity of the sport, transforming it in one of the great markets of international tourism.
Trabalho elaborado por: José Carlos Mesquita/n.º11/8ºD
Ski is a winter sport and one of the most important events of the Olympic Winter Games. It consists of the balance on the skis, used to slide on the snow.
For thousands of years, ski was an essential transport on the rigorous winters of Scandinavia, in the north of Russia and Central Asia. Just in the nineteenth century the ski started to be a sport, when the Norwegian skiers’ created the first rules and the first skiing competition in the nineteenth century.
In the 1920’s the global expansion of ski began, with ski becoming one of most important sports of the Olympic Winter Games. At that time, the downhill, the slalom, which put together the Nordic jumping and the race (Langlauf racing), by the ISF (International Ski Federation), responsible for the regulation and supervising of the sport at a global level.
Ski has a strong touristic component. After the 2nd World War, Austria and Switzerland implemented lots of ski resorts to capitalize the growing popularity of the sport, transforming it in one of the great markets of international tourism.
Trabalho elaborado por: José Carlos Mesquita/n.º11/8ºD
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