I decided, 'That's not bad for a first-time attempt. Steve McKinney , the brother of three-time Olympian Tamara McKinney, never made the A team in Alpine. But he did set the standard for speed skiers. It takes another half-mile to slow to a stop. Straight down the hill.
People think it's a fresh sport, but it's old.
It has its roots forever. Man has tried to max out since he first went over a hill on a pair of cross-country skis. It might have been a Viking who introduced schussing to civilization . It was definitely a Norwegian, Jens Henrick Emahusen, who wrote the first rules of skiing in 1733. Alpine racing began 100 years ago in Europe.