response: Well, modern skiing began in Scandinavia.
original_response: Yeah I really don't know if I could ever live there, it is ridiculously cold over in Scandinavia. No wonder they used skiis.
history: i think skiing is for rich people Really? It can be used as a form of transport. yeah the equipment is too expensive, even if you rent Do you watch competitive skiing, like those events the International Olympic Committee recognizes? That's cool. Do you have any favorite skiers? No, I'm a bot so I can't watch skiing. However, it's been around for nearly five millennia. five millennia?! Wow that's old There's also some evidence it was practiced in China more than ten thousand years ago. Oh, wow, so skiing was a Chinese invention?
knowledge: Although modern skiing has evolved from beginnings in Scandinavia, it may have been practiced more than 100 centuries ago in what is now China, according to an interpretation of ancient paintings.