Abstract A simple approximate theory of snow machining is applied to modelling successive wedge turns alpine skiing. The model involves predefined control functions describing skier’s over the via angle attack, edge and loading skis. To demonstrate model’s potential, reasonable with a small number free parameters are designed used in attempt reproduce data obtained previous field study by other...

This study presents a complete psychological skills training (PST) program with a wheelchair athlete and examines the program effectiveness using a mixed-method approach. After initial testing, the athlete followed a two-month program of self-confidence building, motivational, visualization/relaxation, and injury management techniques. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine t...

This paper examines the post-War Summer and Winter Olympic Games in order to determine the economic and political determinants of national participation, of female participation in particular, and of success at the Games (i.e., medal counts). Compared to the Summer Games, Winter participation levels are driven more by income and less by population, have less host nation bias and a greater effec...

When I had the pleasure of visiting the Cosmotron at Brookhaven in 1956 I took some statistics on the conversations in the hall. I found that 10 per cent was small talk, 25 pe, cent was about physics, and 65 per cent was about Scheduling. T’lese percen ages uive 3’. indication that even at that time the social problems of high-energy physics appeared to take precedence over the subject itself, ...

As a venue for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, National Alpine Skiing Center is located on Xiaohaitou Mountain in Beijing’s Yanqing district, where strong winds occur frequently. To reduce impact of competition, windbreak fences have been installed ski area. determine effect stability beside slope alpine skiing center, numerical simulation method was used to study performance 3.7 ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of injuries at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games. METHODS A total of 547 athletes from 45 countries were monitored daily for 12 days during the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games (6564 athlete days). Daily injury data were obtained from teams with their own medical support (32 teams, 510 athletes) and teams without their own medical support (13 team...

Because firm conduct in Aspen Skiing stands at the outer boundaries of monopolization, it has received considerable scrutiny from antitrust scholars. The critical and somewhat puzzling determination of the relevant geographic market in this case—“the Aspen area”—however has received essentially no attention. In this paper, we report the results of archival and interview research to illuminate t...