Guide skier
Blind skier Jon Santacana follows guide skier Miguel Galindo down a mountain
A guide skier is a person who helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go. They communicate by using a radio or talking to them.[1] The guide skier can see.
Alpine skiing
Skiers can use more than one guide during a race type. The guide can only win a medal if they raced with the same skier for the whole race type.[2] Like the skier, the guide has to have an IPCAS Licence in order to compete in races.[3] Guide skiers need to follow to anti-doping rules.[4]
Biathlon
Guide Skier Media
Pilot Pascal Schoots (L) and Jan Mulder (R) won silver medals in cycling at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens
Timothée Adolphe and his sighted guide Cédric Felip
References
Sources
- International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing (2012). IPC Alpine Skiing Rules and Regulations (PDF). Bonn, Germany: International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 October 2012.[dead link]
- Johnson, Robin (2009). Paralympic Sports Events. St. Catherines, Ontario: Crabtree Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7787-4025-4.
- MacAuley, Domhnall (2007). Oxford handbook of sport and exercise medicine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-856839-1. Retrieved 12 September 2013.