HOW was this an Olympic sport? Ski ballet!

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Believe it or not: Ski ballet was Olympic once! It was a demonstration sport in the 1988 and 1992 Winter Games. We bring you the women's final from Albertville 1992!

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This is the silliest, best, most impressive 90s thing I have ever seen! Bring it back!

musicaldramaqueen

I personally wish Ski ballet gets back to Olympic again..So much athletic and artistic!

yoojungrhee

This sure brings back memories! Back in the day, I took the first ballet skiing class offered at the University of Utah. It was to be taught by champion ballet skier Jan Bucher. She showed up for the first class and introduced her TA, who actually taught the class, while she went off to work on another championship. In the class a bunch of expert skiers put on child-size skis and did spins on the kiddie run at Alta. It was funny to watch expert skiers falling on the kiddie hill. 😊

walthaas

I don’t understand why you (the Olympics) only had this as a demonstration event. This is a really interesting sport to watch and it definitely takes a lot of skill- it’s figure skating, skiing, and gymnastics all in one! But thanks to you never recognizing it as an official Olympic event, interest never picked up fully and slowly the sport died away. Now not even the skiing organization recognizes it as a sport anymore. So sad! You should bring this back once more as a demonstration event and allow people to see this again!

pianoandkpop

Looks like the ski version of figure skating. Sure, no problem.

davidlove

the simple answer as to why it was in the Olympics is because it was incredibly technical, strenuous and artistic. I was in the sport and specialized in tht arena 1971-1975.

garylea