History of skiing
The appearing of the first skies date approximately from 2,500 to 5,000 years old have been found in Scandinavia with the oldest known ski being a wide, short ski found in Sweden that has been shown to be over 4500 years, and cave and rock drawings suggest that skis were used even long before then, so we can make reference at Rødøy in Norway, which depict a man on skis holding a stick. These first skies is probable have been used by a hunter or a traveler, like they were generally used during the long winter in Northern Russia and the Scandinavian countries. These skies may be designed to keep a traveler on top of the snow as they went about their business.
As the story goes, Pioneer Sondre Norheim, from Morgedal in Telemark, has been considerate the father of modern skiing for inventing the equipment and techniques that led to modern skiing as we see it today. Norheim invented a "birch" binding that enabled skiers to ski with assurance of losing their skis. After, in 1870, Norheim design a short, curved, flexible ski he crafted in order to allow for easy turning in soft snow. When Norheim was forty-three, went on to become the winner of the first Norwegian downhill skiing competition in Christiania.
The Skiing popularity grew more in the early 1900's, After Europeans learned about all of the fun their Norwegian neighbors were having. The Nordic equipment  was utilized in this time. So we did be able to observe in the first Winter Olympic Games with events, that was included.
This is illustrated with events included in the first Winter Olympic Games. Then this continued until Cross-Country Skiing first made the Olympic agenda as a stand alone event during the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
According the challenge of skiing has grew, technique and equipment adapted to the challenge. Then alpine ski equipment used a boot that was mounted to the ski at both the toe and the heel, and gave more control to the skier, this way him/her can negotiate steeper slopes and ski at faster speeds. The Alpine skiing disciplines of downhill and slalom came about with this new equipment, and the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch, Germany, witnessed the first introduction of an alpine ski event: the combined, which added a skier's results in both events.
During the 1930's the alpine skiing became a popular European pastime, as ski lifts were invented that eliminated the labor of climbing a mountain just experience an exhilarating descent. With reference to the ski area industry began in earnest after the Second World War, when Austria and Switzerland developed the first Alpine Ski Resorts to receive to every one who want to experience this sport.
During the past 60 years different schools of thought was established around skiing, with advocates for different techniques and disciplines vying for the recognition as the best form of the sport.
In 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics, Giant Salalon combined aspect of both previous disciplines, besides the fist made the Olympic Games.
Alpine ski was added as a fourth discipline at Super G, A hybrid of Giant Slalom and Downhill, when it was added to World Cup event in 1983, and the Olympic in 1988.
 As answer to the frequently evolution of skiing, equipment manufactures developed faster and safer equipment, and athletes combined this new equipment with better training and technique to continuously improve the sport.
Still goes on about which is the premier skiing disciplines, we can enjoyed of all forms of skiing, which are sports that can be enjoyed for a lifetime, as meant that each skiing discipline has grown, while each has been embraced and championed by its aficionados.
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