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Slalom skiing
 Poster: A snowHead
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on a slalom course why do they every so many gates place a blue and a red pole close together and the skier goes round both on the same side?

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Renry, it's called a verticale and it is two or more gates (a gate is pair of poles) vertically below each other, with no horizontal offset. In your photo the gate is the pair of red poles that the skier is passing through, and she will be quickly tipping on to her new edges to pass through the next gate (which will be a pair of blue poles). It tests the skier's ability to get from edge to edge very quickly and cleanly.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

rob@rar, Thanks

Just watching a recording from Flachau from last week and every time I watch slalom I
find asking myself this question.

I see now with the reference to the gates being set vertical. I love watching the racing, have it all recorded from Eurosport HD.

Looking forward to next weekend (25th Jan) HAHNENKAMM DOWNHILL on the Streif Very Happy


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Renry, This is usually at the top or end of a combination (or I think a control gate), where you have to put two poles even on a single pole course.

I sometimes think this is part of a "tromp d'oeil" effect course setters like to use to confuse competitiors, of which the delayed or "banana" gate is the most baffling (there has to be one, but no more than three of these), but perhaps a trained course setter wil come along to explain in more detail, or will have done by the time I finish this.

It is explained at length in the regulations for slalom events page 85 of the FIS competition rules
http://www.fis-ski.com/mm/Document/documentlibrary/AlpineSkiing/03/29/54/ICR_16.07.13.clean_English.pdf
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