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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.
Freestyle skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
Anna Segal is an Australian Olympic freestyle slopestyle skier and two-time world champion.
Devin Marie Logan is an American freeskier from West Dover, Vermont. She won silver in women's slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi.
Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe. Competitors perform a series of tricks while going down the pipe. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by Joffrey Pollet-Villard, with 26 feet 3 inches. The sport is considered to be dangerous compared to other sports, and helmets are required to be worn during competitions. Half-pipe skiing has been part of the Winter X Games since 2002, and made its Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. David Wise of the United States of America became the first Olympic champion in this discipline with a total of 92.00 points.
France competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014.
James Woods is a British freestyle skier. He has won six medals at FIS World Cup and two medals at FIS World Championships
Paraguay competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. Paraguay made its debut at the Winter Olympics. The Paraguayan team consisted of one athlete competing in freestyle skiing.
The men's slopestyle event in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia took place 13 February 2014. In July 2011 freestyle slopestyle was added to the Olympic program, meaning the event would make its debut.
The women's slopestyle event in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia took place 11 February 2014. In July 2011 slopestyle was added to the Olympic program, meaning the event made its debut in the 2014 Olympics.
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand is a Canadian freestyle skier. He represented Canada in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, winning the bronze medal at the latter.
Augustus Richard Kenworthy is a British-American former freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber. He has competed in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air. Kenworthy won the silver medal in men's slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. As of 2019 Kenworthy represents Great Britain. He was cast as Chet Clancy in the ninth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story: 1984.
Emma Dahlström is a Swedish freestyle skier. Dahlström competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was 112th at the 2012–13 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup.
Aleksi Patja is a Finnish freestyle skier. He was born in Rovaniemi. He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle.
Luca Tribondeau is an Austrian freestyle skier. He was born in Wolfsberg. He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle.
Jesper Tjäder is a Swedish freestyle skier. He won the overall slopestyle World Cup in 2014, and competed for Sweden at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics; winning a Bronze medal in Slopestyle at the latter.
Antoine Adelisse is a French freestyle skier. He was born in Nantes. He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He represented France at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Elias Ambühl is a Swiss freestyle skier. He was born in Masein. He completed 1st in April 2011 at the Jon Olsson Invitational, he is the first skier to win with a triple cork. He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013.
Fabian Bösch is a Swiss freestyle skier.
Marek Skála is a Czech freestyle skier. He competed in slopestyle at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in slopestyle.
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