Olympics-skiing

==One of the Olympic winter sports is skiing. Free style skiing is where you ski, and you are not doing anything specific.Skiers need a hard, plastic helmet to prevent head injuries while skiing.The ski length for a women is 175cm long, and for a guy the skis have to be 185 cm long. A regular length is 160 cm long. Ski poles are important because they help you make tight turns and maintain your balance. Ski wear is important too because,when a judge is watching you, you want to draw attention to your knees, most people do that by making the knee pad a different color from the rest of the suit. Some gold medalist skiers that were in the Olympics, are Anja paperson,Jean Claude Killy,Gretchen Fraser and Stein Eriksen. And those are some facts about free style skiing, and people who competed in it.== = =