On Nov 16, 9:48*pm, downhill wrote:
lal_truckee wrote:

* Highest Speed on skis
* Simone Origone (Italy) 251.4 km/h (156.2 mph); Les Arcs, France, April
* 2006

Interesting that no recent speed skiing meets have achieved better
results? Formerly the record was creeping up yearly. Maybe FIS has
stopped holding speed skiing meets?

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/disciplines/speedskiing/

They have 6 events coming up in 2011

At the risk of making a ski related post, I ran into that event
several years ago at Sun Peaks.
You freaks would have loved the lycra. Otherwise, a very boring
spectator sport. Like most skiing events. Wait, wait, swoosh, wait.