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when was ski cross added to the olympics
Ski cross - wikipedia Ski cross Jump to : navigation , search Not to be confused with Cross-country skiing . Ski cross <Td_colspan="2"> Ski Cross competitors navigating a jump during January 2010 World Cup competitions in Les Contamines - Montjoie , France Highest governing body International Ski Federation Nicknames Skier Cross , Skier - X <Th_colspan="2"> Characteristics Contact No Team members Single competitors Mixed gender Yes Type Freestyle skiing <Th_colspan="2"> Presence Olympic 2010 , 2014 , 2018 Ski cross is a type of skiing competition . Despite its being a timed racing event , it is often considered part of freestyle skiing because it incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle . Ski cross courses have both naturally occurring terrain and artificial features including big - air jumps and high - banked turns . What sets ski cross apart from other alpine skiing disciplines is that there 's more than one skier racing down the course . Any intentional contact with other competitors leads to disqualification . Contents ( hide ) 1 Overview 2 History 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Overview ( edit ) In a time trial or qualification round , every competitor skis down the course , which is built to encompass both naturally occurring terrain and artificial features like jumps , rollers or banks . After the time trial , the fastest 32 skiers ( fastest 16 if not 32 competitors ) compete in a knockout series in rounds of four . A group of four skiers start simultaneously and attempt to reach the end of the course . The first two to cross the finish line will advance to the next round . At the end , the big final and small final rounds determine 1st to 4th and 5th to 8th places , respectively . The International Ski Federation ( FIS ) 's FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup has added ski cross competitions to its calendar , since 2004 in addition to moguls and aerials . It was first in the olympics at the 2010 Winter Olympics where Michael Schmid won the men 's event , and Ashleigh McIvor of Canada won the women 's event . Ski cross was also in the 2014 Winter Olympics where the French Men swept the podium and in the women 's event , Canadians Marielle Thompson and Kelsey Serwa finished first and second respectively . Swedish athlete Anna Holmlund took bronze . Ski cross had been in all Winter X Games until 2012 , when ski cross , boardercross and mono ski cross were cut from the 2013 games due to the cost of building the cross course . Ski cross was in the first 15 Winter X Games . History ( edit ) The idea for Ski Cross originated with Jim `` Too Tall '' Essick , one of the founders of Recreational Sports Marketing ( RSM ) , in the late 1980 's . Essick wanted to bring the excitement of motocross to skiing , in order to make ski races more exciting for spectators . The idea was pitched to several corporations , but unfortunately none wanted to sponsor the concept at the time . Years later , one of the companies that had been pitched to -- Swatch Watch -- used the idea in one of their films , exchanging skis for snowboards and calling it `` boarder cross . '' Eventually similar events were staged with skis and , thus , skier cross was born . See also ( edit ) List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing List of Olympic venues in freestyle skiing Snowboard cross Ice cross downhill References ( edit ) Jump up ^ `` Ski cross 101 '' . Alpine Canada . Retrieved 12 November 2014 . External links ( edit ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skicross . 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