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Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline included into the programme of the Winter Olympics. It comprises a downhill obstacle races as well as aerial skiing.
The athletes go down a bumpy track with two kickers.Moguls, or snow bumps, are placed in the chessboard pattern on the slope. While going down the athlete must complete two jumps from the kickers.
Two athletes go down the blue and the red tracks at the same time.
In this sport the athlete performs complex aerial acrobatics on skis from a kicker of special shape, which is built on the alpine skiing slopes. The performance routine of leading aerialists includes double and triple flips with spins.
Ski crossing involves going downhill and navigating between obstacles.Four athletes go down at the same time, and each tries to win. Freestyle athletes spend half of their time going through the turns, as they pass kickers, waves and clear gates.
The skier performs a series of acrobatic jumps using ramps, pyramids, bars and rails of various height located in a particular order along the entire course. The athlete performs tricks while passing different obstacles like ramps, quarter-pipes, pyramids, boxes, rails, etc. The whole length of a slopestyle course is marked by these obstacles that are grouped in sectors that vary in number, characteristics and complexity depending on the level of competitions.
Each of three team members performs a complicated acrobatic jump. The results of the jumps are summed up and the team with the highest score becomes the winner.
