Answer the questions and prepare for the discussion on the topic
1.
| What is skiing?
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2.
| What types of sports skiing do you know?
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3.
| What Nordic skiing events are there?
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4.
| What is the origin of cross-country skiing and biathlon?
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5.
| When did men’s and women’s cross-country races appear in the Winter Olympic programme?
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6.
| What are twelve cross-country skiing events?
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7.
| What is biathlon?
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8.
| How many biathlon skiing events can you name?
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9.
| Since when has biathlon been a part of the Winter Olympic Games?
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10.
| What hills do the athletes jump from in ski jumping and Nordic combined competitions?
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11.
| How are Nordic combined events generally organized?
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12.
| What is Alpine skiing and why it has this name?
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13.
| What Alpine skiing events are there?
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14.
| When did history of the Olympic freestyle start?
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15.
| How is snowboarding different from freestyle or Alpine skiing?
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16.
| What freestyle and snowboarding events are included in the Olympic programme today?
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17.
| What organization is the governing body of the international skiing?
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18.
| What Olympic and world champions and prize-winners in skiing from Belarus do you know?
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