New olympic event to determine best all around skier?

[DLAM]

Introducing the Ski Octathalon

With the olympics right around the corner I was thinking about what would happen if the IOC (or anyone else) introduced a ski “athalon”. The summer olympics of course has the decathalon, heptathalon and the very strange modern pentathalon (200m swim, fencing, equestrian jumping, 800m run and pistol shooting). The winter olympics only has the biathalon which is also very strange. My idea for a ski octathalon would try to determine who the best all around skier is and how versatile they can be. The events and schedule I came up with are below:

Day 1:

Day: Super G (Alpine)

Night: Half pipe (freestyle)

Day 2:

Day: 5km cross country (Nordic)

Night: Ski jumping (Nordic)

Day 3:

Day: Slalom (Alpine)

Night: Moguls (Mix)

Day 4:

Day: Slopestyle (freestyle)

Night: Staggered start ski cross (Mix)

The point of the event and scoring would be to allow a skier from any of the disciplines to excel as long as they can learn a good portion of the other events. (Freestyle skiers need to be able to xc ski, Racers need to ski a half pipe, Xc skiers will ski moguls...) This would also allow skiers from the same country who may have just missed the olympics in their preferred event to compete in something else and have another chance (much like decathletes who are great at several events but not the best at any). The final event would be a skier cross with the starts staggered depending on the results in the previous events. Then whoever crosses the finish line first in an intense skier cross is the gold medalist. This of course would take about 6-8 pairs of skis but I think it could be an exciting event

 

[Psullivan]

Sounds like a sick idea and I bet other skiers will like it so IOC and FIS will say it's a terrible idea

 

[Sharko]

This actually looks like a great idea

 

[Young_patty]

Would definitely love to watch Henrik try to cross country ski in a 4xl suit

 

[hi_vis360]

should include freeride events

 

[AnsonYoPants]

this needs to go down

also chinese downhill on the skier x course to end it would be insane

 

[DLAM]

Would definitely love to watch Henrik try to cross country ski in a 4xl suit

Was totally thinking this when I had the idea. Originally wanted the biathalon but idk if its a good idea to like henrik run around with a gun.

Also thought about freestyle events. It could work but theyre not already an olympic sport so it would take extra effort.

 

[cannonballer]

This would be pretty amazing, and I would watch for sure! The reality is that none of the current skiers we know would compete in this. The competitors would end up coming from a pool of current unknowns who have a good cross-section of skills but aren't good enough to excel at any one discipline. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, just a reality. It would probably be dominated by the Nordic countries and the French with higher fitness levels and more well-rounded overall skills.

 

[Sharko]

You forgot ski ballet

 

[CharlzHub]

I would love to watch racers try to hit a dfd

 

[corona]

That would be sick. I bet if it were to happen today a freeskier would take it since many have some racing background where I really doubt most racers could do much more than 3s and rail slides.

Actually if Jon Olson competed he would take it today.

 

[JWillySkeez]

T-Hall and Delorme would probably slay in some departments considering they both were mogul skiers.

 

[averyhiglo]

This would be such a sick competition but at the moment in skiing, I feel like there are very few athletes that can compete at an olympic level in all of the those disciplines

 

[skiznuts]

anti already won.

 

[Tickn3r]

day 5: Speed skiing, straightlining switch down a mountain at 250km/h in a red speed suit!