Green Slalom course
Wide Open
Long slalom gates, back-to-back delays and a first hairpin
Race Wide OpenGates19
Length273 m
Splits3
Ice patches2
Top speed32 mph
A green course: a gentler hill and an even rhythm, a good first run in this event.
Slalom is the tightest, quickest event: short turns round poles set close together. Your speed comes from the spring of a clean edge change, not from tucking, so a tuck between turns only throws it away. Where gates stack straight down the hill (a hairpin or a flush), it’s one quick turn per pole.
How to ski Wide Open
- Start to split 1 (gates 1–5)
- A delay at gate 4.
- Split 1 to split 2 (gates 6–10)
- A delay at gate 6, ice between gates 6 and 7.
- Split 2 to split 3 (gates 11–16)
- A hairpin at gates 12–14, ice between gates 16 and 17.
- Split 3 to the finish (gates 17–19)
- An even slalom rhythm.
- Combinations: come in over the top, then one quick turn per pole.
- Delays: the gate sits far to the side, so turn early and high to carry your speed round.
- Ice: finish the turn before it and glide across flat.
The Course Setter skis it in 26.37 s, topping 32 mph (52 km/h).
Medal times
Course Setter26.3 s
Gold27.4 s
Silver29.0 s
Bronze32.2 s
The Course Setter is the game’s own racing line. Beat it and a hidden medal shows up.
World record and top 10
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More slalom courses
- BlueClassicRhythm changes, a big delay, a hairpin and a flush
- BlackRhythm AlleyTwo hairpins, a royal flush and a traverse. Read every gate.
Slalom: the courses, the drills and how the real event works