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Winter Olympics: Snowboarding - Infoplease.com - 0 views

  • The sport, which first appeared at the 1998 Nagano Games
  • 2006 Games, a new event, snowboard cross has been added
  • There are six snowboarding events: men's and women's halfpipe, men's and women's parallel giant slalom, and men's and women's snowboard cross. The new snowboard cross event has a course made up of different sections: whoops (moguls), waves, banks, kickers, and spines (jumps with 90° angles), with a series of blue and red gates and triangular flags marking the course and indicating entrances to obstacles.
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  • scale of 0.1 to 10.0 by
  • five judges
  • One judge scores the standardized moves, another scores amplitude
  • one scores quality of rotations
  • two score overall impression
  • mplitude score each maneuver is given an additional point for every 30 centimeters that the competitor reaches above the lip of the pipe
  • Falls and other mistakes lead to deductions
  • 0.1–0.4 for an unstable body, flat landing, or missed airs 0.5–0.9 for using hand for stability 1.0–1.5 for minor falls or body contact with the snow 1.6–1.9 for complete falls 2.0 for a complete stop
  • parallel giant slalom, the riders take qualifying runs, and the top 16 men and top 16 women are ranked according to their times
  • 1 facing 16, 2 facing 15, etc
  • two-race match (once on each course). The winner is the racer that posts the best total time
  • winners of each match move on to the next round until the semifinals. The two semifinals winners race for the gold
  • emifinals losers race for the bronze
  • loser gets the silver
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