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Encyclopedic overview
Tonje Sekse competes in the slalom Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super giant slalom and downhill, necessitating quicker and shorter turns. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, and at the Olympic Winter Games.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “slalom skiing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.