Sports

Downhill is characterized by the longest course and the highest speeds in alpine skiing. 

The Super-G, or super giant slalom, is a competition that combines the speed of the downhill with the more precise and technical turns of the giant slalom. In these competitions, each skier competes on a single course and the fastest time determines the winner.

Slalom is an alpine ski race with the shortest course and the most turns. Giant slalom has fewer turns and wider, smoother turns. In both races, each skier makes two runs down two different tracks drawn on the same slope. The times are combined, and the lowest total time determines the winner. In the alpine combined, a shortened downhill is followed by a one-run slalom. The times are added up, and the lowest total time determines the winner.

Ski Cross includes a qualification phase in which the athletes have to ski down a natural slope, modified with artificial elements, such as jumps, bumps, and parabolic curves, in the shortest possible time, and an elimination phase in which four athletes compete at the same time for each heat. 

The mixed team parallel slalom made its Olympic debut in 2018. The race consists of a mixed competition between men and women, each competing in pairs in a parallel giant slalom. 

In the snowboard-cross event, each athlete competes individually against the clock during qualifying. The athletes with the best times compete in the knockout phase.

In banked slalom, each athlete makes three runs, and the final ranking is determined by taking into account the two best times of the three achieved.

Halfpipe - competitors perform a series of tricks as they ride down a semi-cylinder-shaped slope. 

Parallel Giant Slalom - two snowboarders ride side by side down two parallel tracks. During the qualification, each competitor descends the two tracks (blue and red) once. The two timings are added together, and the 16 best cumulative timings advance to the knockout round and the final. 

Snowboard Cross - after timed qualification, four athletes per set descend simultaneously on a course full of jumps, bumps, and wide turns. 

Big Air - competitors use an inclined platform to perform long jumps and a series of aerial stunts. 

Slopestyle - athletes ride down a course that includes various obstructions while being judged on their stunts' breadth, originality, and quality.

Moguls - athletes ski down a steep course full of bumps, combining very technical turns, aerial maneuvers, and speed. 

Aerials - skiers make jumps several metres long, during which they perform aerial acrobatics before landing on a section of the slope inclined at 34 to 39 degrees, about 30 metres long. 

Slopestyle - athletes descend a course that includes various obstacles while being judged on their range, originality, and the quality of their stunts.

Half-Pipe - competitors perform a series of evolutions as they descend a slope in the shape of a semi-cylinder.

Big Air - athletes descend a slope with a ramp, which is used to make a single jump of several meters during which they perform several aerial evolutions. 

The main equipment used includes balance skis, sit-skis and monoskis. The monoski - a shell fixed with a shock absorber to one or two skis and used in combination with two equipped with mini-skis to enable the athlete to balance - was a revolutionary innovation. A time correction system allows athletes with different disabilities to compete against each other.