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As I researched the history of Skiing, I learned that many people had many different ideas about the history of skiing and how it came about. As I researched I found that Sondre Norheim, an epic if sad figure, whose experiments led to the modern ski shape and the fixed binding which made modern skiing styles possible, had a big role in skiing history.
Like all the oldest sports, skiing is founded on mans most elementary needs. ... Similarly, skiing in all its forms is the centre of the Winter Games. ... Norsemen introduced skiing to the United States no doubt sowing the first seeds of this sort of freestyle as well as the adventurism of langrenn, or cross country. Gullik Knedsen and his brothers Ole and Ansten Nattestad from Nymedal emigrated to Illinois to start a flourishing tradition of skiing on the Rock Prairie of Beloit, near Chicago, in 1841.
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