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Sestriere is a ski resort in Piedmont, Italy, a comune (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is situated in Val Susa, 17 km (11 mi) from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin.
Vida Vencienė is a former cross-country skier who represented the Soviet Union and later Lithuania from 1988 to 1994. She won a gold medal over 10 km and a bronze over 5 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary for the Soviet Union.
Hans-Georg Aschenbach is a former East German ski jumper.
Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova is a Soviet-Russian former cross-country skier who competed from 1984 to 1992. She represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she won three medals with golds in the 20 km freestyle and the 4 × 5 km relay, and a silver in the 5 km classical.
Canaan Valley Resort State Park is a state park in the eastern United States, within Canaan Valley in Tucker County, West Virginia. Located in the highest valley east of the Mississippi River, the park contains the second-largest inland wetland area in the United States. The valley featured the first commercial ski development in West Virginia.
Hubert Schwarz is a former German nordic combined skier who competed during the 1980s. He won the Nordic combined 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary after having won the gold medal in that same event at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld.
Ari-Pekka Nikkola is a Finnish former ski jumper.
Primož Ulaga is a Yugoslav/Slovenian former ski jumper.
Franck Piccard is a French former Alpine skier. A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine Skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition and a bronze medal in the downhill. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill. He also could achieve a bronze-medal in the Super-G-Race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1991.
Yuriy Ilyich Burlakov ; born 1960) is a former Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 1997. He won two medals at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay and a silver in the 50 km.
Poland competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Andreas Kolset Stjernen is a Norwegian retired ski jumper. He is the son of former ski jumper Hroar Stjernen.
The 1987–88 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 7th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The World Cup started in La Clusaz, France, on 12 December 1987 and finished in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 27 March 1988. Gunde Svan of Sweden won the overall men's cup, and Marjo Matikainen of Finland won the women's.
Canada competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria from January 17 to 25, 1988. Canada entered 20 athletes in two of the four disciplines at the Games; twelve in Alpine skiing and eight in Nordic skiing.
Nils Stolzlechner is an Austrian-born American former ski jumper.
Iced is a 1988 American slasher film directed by Jeff Kwitny, and produced by Robert Seibert. It stars Debra De Liso, Doug Stevenson, Elizabeth Gorcey, Ron Kologie, Joseph Alan Johnson, and Lisa Loring. The plot follows a group of friends who are mysteriously invited to a ski resort, where they are stalked and murdered by a masked killer.
Japan competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. 13 competitors from Japan won two medals including zero gold, zero silver and two bronze and finished 14th in the medal table. All 13 competitors competed in alpine skiing.
Belgium competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Two competitors from Belgium won zero medals and finished 16th in the medal table.
The United States competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. 45 competitors from the United States won 7 gold medals, 17 silver medal and 6 bronze medal and finished 6th in the medal table.
Mark Godfrey is an American para-alpine skier. He represented the United States at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing.
