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New Zealand gets set for the speed skiers
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Although this article about speed skiing in snow.co.nz contains some wild inaccuracies, it's got nice photos of the Mangaehuehu Glacier, Turoa, where racers will be attempting a New Zealand speed record from 6-10 October.

The headline is inaccurate in saying that this is the "fastest natural track in the world". Most speed skiing tracks are natural, or the product of minor landscaping. It's not an important point, since most ski race tracks have been graded in some way. The quote that "No Man, Women or dog has done over 200 kph on snow in the southern hemisphere since The legends' of the event raced in Chile in 1985" is simply rubbish!

Here's a list of records, and where they were achieved, from speedski.com. I've a feeling that Harry Egger's 1999 record has been broken, which I'll check later.
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