Freestyle_skiing_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics Knowpia

Freestyle skiing
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Freestyle skiing; at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictograms for Aerials, Halfpipe, Moguls, Ski Cross, and Slopestyle.
Venue	Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, Krasnaya Polyana, Russia
Dates	6–21 February 2014
Competitors	277 from 30 nations
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Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The ten events took place between 6–21 February 2014.^[1]

In April 2011 the International Olympic Committee approved the addition of the halfpipe event for both, men and women.^[2] In July 2011, slopestyle was also added to the program, therefore a total of four new events were added to the freestyle skiing program.^[3]

Competition schedule edit

Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, the venue for freestyle skiing

The following is the competition schedule for all ten events.^[4]

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
6 February	18:00	Women's moguls qualification
8 February	18:00	Women's moguls qualification 2
8 February	22:00	Women's moguls final
10 February	18:00	Men's moguls qualification
10 February	22:00	Men's moguls final
11 February	10:00	Women's slopestyle qualification
11 February	13:00	Women's slopestyle final
13 February	10:15	Men's slopestyle qualification
13 February	13:30	Men's slopestyle final
14 February	17:45	Women's aerials qualification
14 February	21:30	Women's aerials final
17 February	17:45	Men's aerials qualification
17 February	21:30	Men's aerials final
18 February	17:45	Men's halfpipe qualification
18 February	21:30	Men's halfpipe final
20 February	11:45	Men's ski cross qualification
	13:30	Men's ski cross finals
	18:30	Women's halfpipe qualification
	21:30	Women's halfpipe final
21 February	11:45	Women's ski cross qualification
21 February	13:30	Women's ski cross finals

Medal summary edit

Medal table edit

* Host nation (Russia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada (CAN)	4	4	1	9
2	United States (USA)	3	2	2	7
3	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	0	2
4	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
5	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
5	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
7	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)*	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		10	10	10	30

Men's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
aerials details	Anton Kushnir Belarus	134.50	David Morris Australia	110.41	Jia Zongyang China	95.06
halfpipe details	David Wise United States	92.00	Mike Riddle Canada	90.60	Kevin Rolland France	88.60
moguls details	Alexandre Bilodeau Canada	26.31	Mikaël Kingsbury Canada	24.71	Alexandr Smyshlyaev Russia	24.34
slopestyle details	Joss Christensen United States	95.80	Gus Kenworthy United States	93.60	Nick Goepper United States	92.40
ski cross details	Jean-Frédéric Chapuis France		Arnaud Bovolenta France		Jonathan Midol France

Women's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
aerials details	Alla Tsuper Belarus	98.01	Xu Mengtao China	83.50	Lydia Lassila Australia	72.12
halfpipe details	Maddie Bowman United States	89.00	Marie Martinod France	85.40	Ayana Onozuka Japan	83.20
moguls details	Justine Dufour-Lapointe Canada	22.44	Chloé Dufour-Lapointe Canada	21.66	Hannah Kearney United States	21.49
slopestyle details	Dara Howell Canada	94.20	Devin Logan United States	85.40	Kim Lamarre Canada	85.00
ski cross details	Marielle Thompson Canada		Kelsey Serwa Canada		Anna Holmlund Sweden

Qualification edit

A maximum of 282 quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 26 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women. The five different events had different quota amounts allocated to them.^[5]

Participating nations edit

276 athletes from 30 nations participated, with number of athletes in parentheses. Four nations, Belgium, Brazil, The British Virgin Islands and Chile made their Olympic debuts in the sport. Paraguay made its first appearance at the Winter Olympics, with its only athlete competing in freestyle skiing.^[6]

Australia (21)
Austria (11)
Belarus (6)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (1)
British Virgin Islands (1)
Canada (26)
Chile (2)
China (9)
Czech Republic (6)
Finland (9)
France (21)
Germany (10)
Great Britain (6)
Italy (4)
Japan (10)
Kazakhstan (8)
New Zealand (8)
Norway (11)
Paraguay (1)
Poland (1)
Russia (26)
Slovakia (2)
Slovenia (1)
South Korea (5)
Spain (1)
Sweden (11)
Switzerland (24)
Ukraine (7)
United States (26)

Controversy edit

Both Canada and Slovenia both appealed separately to the Court of Arbitration for Sport that the three French athletes in the Big Final of the men's ski cross final, had their pants illegally changed by their coach. They argued it gave the three an aerodynamic advantage over the rest of the field. Both countries first appealed to the International Ski Federation, but were rejected since they appealed hours after the end of the competition (when the deadline was 15 minutes after the close of the race). The appeal to the court was ultimately unsuccessful as well, because the Court agreed with the ski federation that the appeal was filed past the deadline.^[7]

Notes edit

Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, winning the men's moguls, following up his 2010 Olympics gold in men's moguls.^[8] Justine Dufour-Lapointe became the youngest freestyle skiing Olympic champion ever in the women's mogul event.^[9]

References edit

^ "Rosa Khutor Extreme Park". SOOC. Archived from the original on 17 September 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Dwyer, Olivia (6 April 2011). "Ski halfpipe approved for 2014 Olympics". ESPN. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ Dwyer, Olivia (4 July 2011). "Slopestyle approved for 2014 Olympics". ESPN. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
^ "Freestyle Skiing Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 29 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Ski Federation. December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Vincent, Gordon (6 December 2013). "Winchester's Marino is first Winter Olympian from Paraguay". Middlesex East. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
^ "Canada's skicross appeal over altered pants dismissed". Associated Press. Sochi, Russia: Toronto Star. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^ Graves, Will (10 February 2014). "Canada's Alex Bilodeau takes gold in men's moguls, first two-time freestyle Olympic champion". The Republic. Columbus, Indiana. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
^ The Canadian Press (8 February 2014). "Dufour-Lapointe sisters win gold and silver in Olympic moguls". CTV News. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2014-02-17.