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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics consisted of six events, held near Grenoble, France. The six events were held at Chamrousse from February 9-17, 1968. Jean-Claude Killy won all three men's events, repeating Toni Sailer's triple-gold of 1956. Since Killy's feat, no alpine ski racer has won three gold medals in a single Olympics. This was the first Olympics with a two-run men's giant slalom. The women's giant slalom would be expanded to two runs in 1980. For the only time, the results from Olympic races were included in the World Cup standings, then in its second season. Following the 1970 season, Olympic and World Championship results were not included in the World Cup points standings. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events, held near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten events were held at the Nakiska ski area in Kananaskis from February 15-27, 1988. The Super G made its Olympic debut and the combined event was re-introduced after four decades; it was last held as a medal event in 1948. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of six events, held near Lake Placid, New York, U.S.A.. The races were held at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington from February 14-23, 1980. This was the first Olympics in which the women's giant slalom consisted of two runs, rather than one. This was the last Olympics which also served as World Championships for alpine skiing. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The ten events were scheduled for February 13-27, 2010; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, two days until Monday, February 15th. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 711 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 845 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1612 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2001 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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Illustrated report of Oslo Winter Olympics in 1952. Black and white drawings and photographs as well as complete event statistics. Text in Norwegian. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Verena ("Vreni") Schneider (born November 26, 1964 in Elm) is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful female ski racer ever (after Annemarie Moser-Pröll) and was elected "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century". She won the overall alpine skiing World Cup three times and eleven discipline World Cups in Slalom and Giant Slalom, along with 55 World Cup races (number two all-time among women to Moser-Pröll). ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

I can't believe this currently OOP! Prices for used copies will sky-rocket
People don't know when they have a hit on their hands. Warhol once got rich making goddamned silkscreens of soup cans. Surely a "former skier" can get rich assembling random wikipedia articles, surely that's fair! In 30 years people will shake their heads at our stupidity for passing this deal up.

And as for the half-man, half-biscuit phenomenon, well... some folks say, when the old Smith bakery is closed in the middle of the night, and all the kids are safe in bed, well, you can hear a kind of rustle in the wind, the sound of flour-padded footsteps on the tile... and maybe the creaking of a hinge on old Smith's back door, as one more baked good dashes for his freedom.

Run on, half-biscuit bro, run on...

half-Man, One-Quarter Biscuit
This book's title is a LITTLE misleading. It's actually about a Half-Man, One-Quarter Biscuit so you are really not getting the whole story.

DO NOT WANT
Wikipedia articles in print for a fortune? I bought a smartphone instead, and am very happy.

Half Man, Half Biscuit, All Alpine Skiing!
I had a dream once that I was abducted by aliens from outer space. These creatures of my nightmares were half man, half biscuit. But they do not appear in this book.

88 pages for $46??Are you serious??
Nevermind that the content is someone else's, forget all about Wikipedia being the bane of literature, and completely banish from all thought the concept of the subject matter and its horrendous title being of any merit whatsoever.Just consider this one simple economic quandary:

Who is willing to pay $0.52 per page of content everyone else can legally read for free?

THAT person should donate their brain to science, because even scientists deserve an ottoman.
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Ten years of research has provided a monumental record of one of the most dangerous, exhilarating and amazing sports ever undertaken!Harold "Cork" Anson has given ski jumping its first comprehensive record of over a century of the sport.Taking the reader from European and US beginnings in the 1880s through 125 years, he follows the top echelon from east to west coasts, and into Canada.The evolution of jumping hills, style and technology, charts of tournament results, and historic photographs are woven around skiers' personal moments of agony and ecstasy, triumph and tragedy, Olympic prowess and failures. The advent of women jumpers, and the prospects for the future of the sport bring the book to the brink of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C. ... Read more

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Tracks of Passion traces the story of Eastern Sierra skiing from its beginnings in the 1930s with early rope tows outside sleepy towns along Highway 395 to the development of Mammoth Mountain. In the 1960s Dave McCoy's vision for a family-fun ski resort expanded as his personally-trained racers competede internationally and his children raced in the Olympics. With more than a half-century of McCoy's leadership, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area eventually encompasses 27 lifts and a gondola, lodgings, and amenities for skiers. An enthusiastic staff of dedicated mavericks ran ski lifts, ski patrol, and ski school each winter and built lifts each summer. Turning over the reins in 2005 at the age of 90, Dave McCoy summed up his career saying "It wasn't a job, it was a love affair." ... Read more

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Here's a big "Let's ski!" sale on "the best XC ski read ever!" (Now only $9.95 -- almost half off the list price of $17.95.)

Pete Vordenberg is the Head Coach of the US XC program. He's also a favorite writer in XC ski magazines. "Momentum" is a memoir of life as an Olympian as well as of being a kid taking his early steps toward such a goal. Bob Gregg, editor, Master Skier magazine, said it was the best XC ski book ever. The insights into life as a junior skier are particularly rewarding, as it's a time not often covered in sports writing. Vordenberg opens up the skiing life in a way we haven't seen before. He puts us inside the global goal of striving for near-impossible American gold in XC. "It is not a retelling of the little engine that could, but why the little engine even tried."

In addition to being Head Coach, Vordenberg was a 2-time Olympian and National Champion. Recently, the US has been achieving worldclass results for the first time in decades!

Includes dozens of black & white photos. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!
Just kidding, everything in this book is absolutely true.Read it here first.Thanks Pete for writing a great book, but more importantly thanks for telling the world about the time I wiped with poison oak!ouch.

A Great Read For Heading Into Winter
I thoroughly enjoyed Pete Vordenberg's story and can hardly wait for the snow to fly this winter. While I can say I'm especially motivated to get on the XC trails now, I can't say I'll be draggng a log behind me as part of my experience! What an incredibe story and entertaining read. I'm hoping to see a follow up book (non-fiction or fiction) from this talented writer.

Covers Vordenberg's attitudes, aspirations, and motivations
Momentum: Chasing The Olympic Dream is the 191-page autobiography of two-time Olympian, National Champion, and current US Ski Team Coach Pete Vordenberg. A frequent and popular contributor to ski magazines, Vordenberg ably narrates his life in skiing from his youthful efforts to his adult accomplishments around the world. More than a simple chronicle of obstacles and accomplishments, Momentum: Chasing The Olympic Dream is an engaging read that covers Vordenberg's attitudes, aspirations, and motivations. Adeptly written with personal candor and a flair for narration, this engaging personal memoir is informative, entertaining, and occasionally inspiring. If you've ever strapped on a pair skis and dreamed of Olympic Gold, then you will want to read Pete Vordenberg's Momentum: Chasing The Olympic Dream!

If Quixote tilted at Bigfoot
Admittedly I felt a little like Sancho Panza, because I didn't really anticipate reading "Momentum."Odds were that it prove to be just another insipid, quixotic memoir in the vast wasteland of sports literature.I was in for a surprise.In that ego-fueled and littered expanse "Momentum" shines like a rare and precious gem.

The body of the work is solid, and there are several scenes which are more than adequately--shall we say--"fleshed out."For example:the Halloween night revenge of the NMU xc ski team against a less than candid comedian-evangelist.Some guys are probably going to spend some time in purgatory for that caper, and I don't mean skiing in Colorado!

It is a very well written work.This book is autobiographical--Pete Vordenberg as he bled, sweat, toiled, cried and laughed trying to acquire Olympic fulfillment in a practically anonymous nordic odyssey. Nevertheless, if measured together with a Sasquatch or two, Pete'slife would balance the scales of 10,000 ordinary men.

Gliding through life...
I dove into this story in the first few sentences, "Game on." in the back seat of a small car stuffed with skis, food, and loved ones. This writing is a total rush of heart and soul, as twisty, full of speed, and "unrelenting" as the courses Pete challenged himself on.There is no comparison to other athletes' books; each person's journey is unique. What sets this one apart is that the author is the athlete himself, and he reflects his physical grace and power as a champion nordic athlete in his intellectual grace and power as a writer and story teller.I loved his unique way of telling his story, like a meandering trail in all seasons, evolving and alive, and still living and breathing in glorious color.I felt a sense that the past is always alive as a part of here-and-now.Thank you for sharing your adventure with us, Pete, and hope it keeps on growing for you and others you continue to inspire.
Thanks to Jeff Potter for his vision and creativity, and a very meaningful gift of heart. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! While generally viewed as country more suited to summer sport (the mock Smiggin Holes 2010 Winter Olympic bid required Australia's tallest mountain to be raised 1,000 feet with rubbish), several winter sports take place in Australia.Skiing in Australia began as a sport in the 19th century, probably at Kiandra in 1861. Australia receives snow in the Australian Alps and parts of Tasmania.The Australian Alps are within driving range for weekend trips for residents of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, while Tasmanian ski slopes are within day trip range for residents of the state. However, there are no runs long or fast enough for the downhill competition and the season is quite short, with the snow skiable for only about 3 months per year. ... Read more

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