Alpine Skiing in 1982: Super-G
Slalom and giant slalom are decided by adding two runs on separately set courses, usually a few hours apart on the same slope. Anyone who fails to finish or is disqualified in the first run is out. For the second run the top 30 start in reverse order — the racer sitting 30th goes first and the first-run leader goes last, a rule known as the flip that gives the leaders the roughest surface and regularly overturns big margins. Every other qualifier starts in first-run order behind them. Keep Alpine Skiing with “Super-G” and 1982 from 1982. Each run is set by a single coach, drawn from the competing nations, who plants every gate personally and signs off the result; setters deliberately vary rhythm, hide gates over rolls and place traps on the steepest pitches. Racers then inspect on skis at low speed, side-slipping beside the line, permitted to look but never to ski the course. Forerunners test each run before the first bib. In downhill and super-G, inspection is often the only chance to read the terrain before committing to it at full speed.
Four: slalom, giant slalom, super-G and downhill, plus combined and parallel formats Downhill racers routinely exceed 130 km/h; Johan Clarey was clocked at 161.9 km/h at Wengen in 2013 The Crystal Globe, awarded to the overall World Cup champion every year since 1967 Mikaela Shiffrin, who reached 100 victories at Sestriere on 23 February 2025
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, a combined event only; the modern four-discipline program was complete in 1988 Alpine skiing is the sport of descending a marked mountain course against the clock, one racer at a time, through a sequence of gates that must all be passed. There is no opponent to block, no ball to contest and no way to hide: the mountain sets the problem, the course-setter complicates it, and the stopwatch delivers a verdict in hundredths of a second. That brutal simplicity has made it the anchor sport of the Winter Olympics and the defining winter obsession of the Alps, where a January downhill in Kitzbuhel can draw a bigger television audience in Austria than any football match played that year.
The sport is really four sports wearing one name. Slalom asks for 55 to 75 direction changes in under a minute on skis 165 centimetres long. Giant slalom stretches the rhythm and doubles the speed. Super-G removes the training runs entirely, forcing racers to attack a course they have only inspected on foot. Downhill hands them 800 to 1,100 metres of vertical drop, jumps that carry 60 metres of air, and speeds above 140 km/h. A racer who wins in all four in one season is doing something closer to winning the 100 metres and the marathon than to winning two events.
The notice keeps 1982, “Super-G,” and 1982. Those three are the bones of Alpine Skiing. Keep Alpine Skiing with “Super-G” and 1982 from 1982. 19821982
Figures to keep
- Year of the rule
- 1982
- Figure in the game
- 1982
- Sport
- Alpine Skiing
- Rule line
- Super-G
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