Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup | BtS - What is Ski Cross?

The Audi FIS ski cross World Cup is proud to present the first in our new Behind the Scenes video series, documenting the athletes and the action of the ski cross tour in a way like you've never seen them before. In episode one we travel to the World Cup season-opening competition in Montafon, Austria, to ask some of the best skiers on the planet to tell us what ski cross is, in their own words. With Sochi 2015 gold medallist Marielle Thompson (CAN), Kreischberg 2015 world champion Filip Flisar (SLO), rising star Daniel Bohnacker (GER), and others, episode one lets us in on some of the specifics and some of the intangibles that make ski cross so special. FIS Freestyle DESCRIPTION: Freestyle is one of the six Olympic disciplines administered the - The International Ski Federation (FIS). The discipline consists of five events Moguls, Aerials, Skicross, HalfPipe and Slopestyle. Freestyle skiing is a young snow sport beginning in the 1950's. Originally, a mix of alpine skiing and acrobatics, the first freestyle skiing competition was held in Attitash, New Hampshire in 1966. A relative newcomer to the Olympic Winter Games, Moguls became an Olympic event in 1992 in Albertville. Aerials were added for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. The newest Olympic Winter Games event, Ski Cross, made its debut in Vancouver in 2010. In 2014 halfpipe and slopestyle were added to the Olympic winter schedule. For more information about FIS Freestyle: https://www.fisfreestyle.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fisfreestyle?ref=ts&fref=ts Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fisfreestyle FIS: As the governing body of international skiing and snowboarding, FIS manages the Olympic disciplines of Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding, including setting the international competition rules. Through its 116 member nations, more than 6'500 FIS ski and snowboard competitions are staged annually.