Talk:Slalom skiing

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In modern slalom events (world cup, olympics, etc) there are no flags on the gates. Rather, they are just poles. I don't enough about Arnold Lunn and everything else to change the article, but i'm pretty sure its obsolete. lommer 00:51, 6 Apr 2004 (UT

[edit] interwiki links

Can anyone determine whether these interwiki links should really go onto the Slalom page instead of here? Because half the interwiki plain "slalom" links are here & half are there.

 [[de:Slalom]]
 [[hr:Slalom]]
 [[no:Slalåm]]
 [[fi:Pujottelu]]
 [[sv:Slalom]]

Elf | Talk 04:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I added that slalåm comes from the Telemark dialect of Norwegian, since both the words "sla" and "låm" are not understood by most Norwegians, and certainly not used in mainstream Norwegian.

Also, I think that it could be right to say that the origin (in its early form) is from Telemark, but the sport as known today originated in the alphs during the early 20th century.

[edit] Turn of the Century

At this time, seven years into the new century, there are a vast number of adults, actually all adults, who grew up with "turn of the century" meaning the year 1900. Now that we have gone through another "turn of the century" and ambiguity creeps in.

I deduce that the phrase in this article, refers to the year 2000 but I am not sure.

Could someone who knows please make this clear.

Thank you, Nick Beeson (talk) 13:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)