The Fall Line Americas Rise To Ski Racings Summit

Author : Nathaniel Vinton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244784
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's Summit written by Nathaniel Vinton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Great sports writing. . . . [Vinton] is taking us inside a world few ever visit.”—James Hill, Washington Post Harnessing nature’s most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sport’s legends are born. Then came a fledgling class of American racers that disrupted the Alpine racing world order. Led by Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety, this band of iconoclasts made a place for their country on some of the world’s most prestigious race courses. Even as new technology amplified the sport’s inherent danger, the US Ski Team learned how to win, and they changed downhill racing forever. The Fall Line is the story of how it all came together, a deeply reported reconstruction of ski racing’s most dramatic season. Drawing on more than a decade of research and candid interviews with some of the sport’s most elusive figures, award-winning journalist Nathaniel Vinton reveals the untold story of how skiers like Vonn and Miller, and their peers and rivals, fought for supremacy at the Olympic Winter Games. Here is an authoritative portrait of a group of men and women taking mortal risks in a bid for sporting glory. A white-knuckled tour through skiing’s deep traditions and least-accessible locales, The Fall Line opens up the sexy, high-stakes world of downhill skiing—its career-ending crashes, million-dollar sponsorship deals, international intrigue, and showdowns with nature itself. With views from the starting gate, the finish line, and treacherous turns in between, The Fall Line delivers the adrenaline of one of the world’s most beautiful and perilous sports alongside a panoramic view of skiing’s past, present, and future.

Author : Nathaniel Vinton
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393244776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Line written by Nathaniel Vinton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the world’s original extreme sport: downhill ski racing. Harnessing nature’s most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sport’s legends are born. Then came a fledgling class of American racers that disrupted the Alpine racing world order. Led by Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety, this band of iconoclasts made a place for their country on some of the world’s most prestigious race courses. Even as new technology amplified the sport’s inherent danger, the US Ski Team learned how to win, and they changed downhill racing forever. The Fall Line is the story of how it all came together, a deeply reported reconstruction of ski racing’s most dramatic season. Drawing on more than a decade of research and candid interviews with some of the sport’s most elusive figures, award-winning journalist Nathaniel Vinton reveals the untold story of how skiers like Vonn and Miller, and their peers and rivals, fought for supremacy at the Olympic Winter Games. Here is an authoritative portrait of a group of men and women taking mortal risks in a bid for sporting glory. A white-knuckled tour through skiing’s deep traditions and least-accessible locales, The Fall Line opens up the sexy, high-stakes world of downhill skiing—its career-ending crashes, million-dollar sponsorship deals, international intrigue, and showdowns with nature itself. With views from the starting gate, the finish line, and treacherous turns in between, The Fall Line delivers the adrenaline of one of the world’s most beautiful and perilous sports alongside a panoramic view of skiing’s past, present, and future.

Author : Lisa Feinberg Densmore
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071343817
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ski Faster written by Lisa Feinberg Densmore and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Feinberg Densmore is a champion world-class skier. Talking about strategy and tactics for the slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, and downhill, to enhanced speed and grace in advanced nonrace conditions, Densmore helps skiers to get the best out of themselves on the slopes.

Author : Peggy Shinn
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1512601810
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Class written by Peggy Shinn and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a great team? Sports journalist Peggy Shinn answers this question in her enthralling account of the dramatic rise of the U.S. women's cross-country ski team, winners of eight medals at three world championships over the past five years. Shinn's story - based on dozens of interviews with athletes, coaches, parents, spouses, and friends - paints a vivid picture of the obstacles that America's female athletes must overcome not just to ski with the world's best, but to beat them. In a sport where U.S. women have toiled for decades, mostly in the middle or the back of the pack, the development of a world-class team attests to the heady combination of a transformational leader, a coach who connects with his athletes, the super-fast individual skiers who are also conscientious teammates - and a bit of good luck. This is the story of Kikkan Randall, Liz Stephen, Holly Brooks, Jessie Diggins, Ida Sargent, Sadie Bjornsen, Sophie Caldwell, Rosie Brennan, and coach Matt Whitcomb - and how they created the perfect team.

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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Snow Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 87 issues of Snow Country published between 1988 and 1999, the reader can find the defining coverage of mountain resorts, ski technique and equipment, racing, cross-country touring, and the growing sport of snowboarding during a period of radical change. The award-winning magazine of mountain sports and living tracks the environmental impact of ski area development, and people moving to the mountains to work and live.

Author : Mark McLaughlin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439642559
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skiing at Lake Tahoe written by Mark McLaughlin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized ski racing in America started near Lake Tahoe in the 1860s when gold miners rode 15-foot boards that reached speeds near 100 miles per hour. By 1895, residents of Truckee had started the nations first winter carnival west of the Rocky Mountains and soon built the largest ski jump in California. Todays Lake Tahoe, with significant annual snowfall, has become home to the largest concentration of ski resorts on the continent. Places like Mount Rose, Squaw Valley (home of the 1960 Winter Olympics), Sugar Bowl, Heavenly Valley, Homewood, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows, Kirkwood, Diamond Peak, Donner Ski Ranch, Granlibakken, and Northstar-at-Tahoe have seen skiing styles, sports, and fashions churn through the decades, while now gone resorts, such as Edelweiss and White Hills Ski Resort, echo the memories of yesterdays skiers through the pines.

Author : Charles Leocha
Publisher : World Leisure Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0915009889
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leocha's Ski Snowboard America (2009) written by Charles Leocha and published by World Leisure Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates ski resorts in North America, and gives information on conditions, lodging, and non-skiing activities, including snowboarding facilities.

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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Leocha
Publisher : Hampstead, N.H. : World Leisure Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780915009749
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ski America and Canada written by Charles Leocha and published by Hampstead, N.H. : World Leisure Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates ski resorts in North America, and gives information on conditions, lodging, and non-skiing activities, including snowboarding facilities.

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Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: