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Photo: Joe Kusumoto

Andy Parr in action at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.

The alpine disciplines include the same events contested in Olympic competition: downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super-G. Paralympic alpine skiing competition is open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities such as amputation, blindness/visual impairment, spinal cord injury/wheelchair-users and cerebral palsy/brain injury/stroke.