Location: 1345 Lowell Avenue, Park City, Utah 
Tom Smart, Deseret News |
Events: Alpine - men's and women's giant slalom; snowboarding - men's and women's parallel giant slalom and halfpipe; Complete schedule
Previous Olympic-type events: Longtime stop as "America's Opening" on World Cup skiing circuit, including 2000 America's Opening; 1999 and 2000 World Cup snowboarding events.
Briefly: Park City will have a "superpipe" in place for the halfpipe event. The oversized channel of snow allows riders to do higher aerials tricks with more spins.
North American 'boarders are accustomed to the larger pipes, while Europeans generally ride the smaller ones.
Crews will bury the halfpipe immediately following the contest to make way for the parallel giant slalom course, with the final third of the course running over the buried halfpipe.
As far as alpine ski racing, Park City Mountain Resort has a storied history of hosting the opening events of the annual World Cup circuit.
More information is available on the resort's Web site at www.parkcitymountain.com.
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