List of Olympic venues in freestyle skiing

For the Winter Olympics, there are nine venues that have been or will be used for freestyle skiing. The first FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships was held at Tignes, France, in 1986.[1] Two years later at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, the sport was included as a demonstration event though it took place at two different locations.[2][3] Becoming an official Olympic sport in 1992, the venue chosen was at Tignes, host of the 1986 world championships.[4] The 1997 world championships at Iizuna Kogen would serve as the test event for the venue used for the 1998 Winter Olympics.[5][6] Deer Valley played host to the 2002 events and would host the world championships in both 2003 and 2011.[7][8][9] Whistler, British Columbia hosted the 2001 world championships though the 2010 venue took place at Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver close to the host city.[10][11]

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1988 CalgaryCanada Olympic Park (includes bobsleigh/luge track) (demonstration)Bobsleigh, Luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping25,000 (bobsleigh/luge)
35,000 (ski jumping)
15,000 (freestyle)		 [2]
Nakiska (demonstration)Alpine skiingNot listed. [3]
1992 AlbertvilleTignesNoneNot listed. [4]
1994 LillehammerKanthaugen Freestyle ArenaNone15,000 [12]
1998 NaganoIizuna Kogen Ski AreaNone12,000 [6]
2002 Salt Lake CityDeer ValleyAlpine skiing (slalom)13,400 [7]
2006 TurinSauze d'Oulx-JouvencauxNone7,900 [13]
2010 Vancouver Cypress Mountain Snowboarding 8,000 [11]
2014 SochiFreestyle Skiing Center and Snowboard ParkSnowboarding8,000 (freestyle skiing)
8,000 (snowboarding)		 [14]
Cypress Mountain hosted the freestyle skiing events for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

References
  1. FIS-Ski.com Tignes Freestyle World Ski Championships 2-6 February 1986 results. Accessed 22 March 2011.
  2. 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 110-27. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
  3. 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 128-43. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
  4. 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 112–3. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  5. FIS-Ski.com Iizuna Kogen Freestyle World Ski Championships 4-9 February 1997 results. Accessed 22 March 2011.
  6. 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 206-8. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  7. 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 76-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  8. FIS-Ski.com Deer Valley Freestyle World Ski Championships 29 January - 1 February 2003 results. Accessed 22 March 2011.
  9. FIS-Ski.com Deer Valley Freestyle World Ski Championships 2-5 February 2011 results. Accessed 22 March 2011.
  10. FIS-Ski.com Whistler Freestyle World Ski Championships 17-21 January 2001 results. Accessed 22 March 2011.
  11. "Venues–Cypress Mountain". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  12. 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 23-6. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  13. 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 81-2. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  14. Sochi2014.com profile of the Freestyle Skiing Center and Snowboard Park. Accessed 31 December 2010.
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