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Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics: six events, downhill, giant slalom, slalom for men and women, 5–14 February 1976. Franz Klammer won the downhill in 1:45.73; Rosi Mittermaier took two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics comprised six events on Whiteface Mountain at Lake Placid in February 1980, with Ingemar Stenmark and Hanni Wenzel each winning two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics: six medal events (downhill, giant slalom, slalom, men, and women) on Bjelašnica and Jahorina, 11–19 February 1984; USA led with 3 golds, Mahre twins went 1–2 in slalom, Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter medal.
Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics comprised ten events at Nakiska near Calgary, where super-G and combined debuted and Alberto Tomba and Vreni Schneider each won twice.
Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics: ten events, 9–22 February, at Val d'Isère, Méribel, and Les Menuires; Austria led the medals; Kronberger won two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics: 10 events, five each for men and women, at Kvitfjell (speed) and Hafjell (technical), 13–27 February 1994; Germany led with 3 golds, Norway swept the men's combined.
Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Nagano): 10 medal events, 9–21 February 1998, at Happo'one Hakuba and Shiga Kogen. Austria led with 11 medals; Hermann Maier won two golds after a downhill crash.
Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics comprised ten events held 10–23 February 2002 at Snowbasin, Deer Valley, and Park City near Salt Lake City.
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics: 10 medal events, 12–25 February 2006, at Sestriere and San Sicario; 287 skiers from 60 NOCs; Austria led with 14 medals; Raich and Dorfmeister each won two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: ten medal events at Whistler Creekside, 15–27 February 2010. Weather caused five postponements; Germany led with 3 golds, the US won 8 total medals, Canada none.
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics consisted of ten medal events, five for men and five for women, held at Rosa Khutor near Sochi, Russia, in February 2014.
Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics: 11 medal events, 13–24 February 2018, at Jeongseon and Yongpyong Alpine Centres; Austria led with 3 golds; debut mixed team event won by Switzerland.
Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification
Alpine skiing qualification for PyeongChang 2018: FIS/IOC system allocating 320 quota places, max 22 per NOC and 14 per gender, via basic quota, top-30 World Cup Start List places, and the Olympic FIS Points List; 309 athletes from 80 nations competed.
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022, Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center, 7-20 February 2022: 11 events, Switzerland led with 9 medals (5 gold), Mayer won a third straight Olympic gold, Austria took the mixed team parallel.
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification
Alpine skiing qualification, Beijing 2022 Olympics: FIS/IOC system allocating 306 quota places (153 per gender), max 22 per NOC, period 1 July 2019 to 16 January 2022, with reallocation rules and mixed team parallel eligibility.
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, 7-18 February, ten events at Bormio's Stelvio and Cortina's Tofane. Replaced individual combined and mixed team parallel with team combined; Switzerland led with 9 medals; von Allmen won 3 golds.
Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics is a sport contested since 1936, where skiers race down gated courses in five disciplines governed by the FIS.
Alpine Space Ventures
Alpine Space Ventures is a Munich-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Bulent Altan and Joram Voelklein that invests in early-stage space companies, closing a €170 million fund in 2024.
Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra: treeless vegetation above the mountain treeline, one of two tundra types alongside arctic tundra. Defined by a 5–7°C growing-season mean, 5–6 million km² globally, patchy permafrost, and high climate sensitivity.
Alpine, New Jersey
Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, on the Palisades cliffs about 20 miles north of New York City. Incorporated 1903; 1,762 residents (2020); median household income $246,944; lowest Bergen County tax rate; noted for large estates and celebrity homes.
Alpine, Texas
Alpine, Texas: Brewster County city and Big Bend region hub, home of Sul Ross State University, population about 6,000, gateway on US-90 and TX 118 with ongoing water infrastructure challenges.
Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that adds reactive, interactive behavior to web pages through directives written directly in HTML, created by Caleb Porzio in 2019.
Alpinestars Tech-Air
Alpinestars Tech-Air is a self-contained electronic airbag system for motorcycle riders, made by Alpinestars, which inflates to protect the chest, back, and shoulders in a crash.
Alpingarten Hirzer - Giardino alpino Punta Cervina
Alpingarten Hirzer (Giardino alpino Punta Cervina) is a free alpine garden opened June 2017 at the Klammeben mountain station (2,000 m) of the Hirzer cable car in Schenna, South Tyrol, near the 2,781 m Hirzer summit.
Alpinia galanga
Alpinia galanga (greater galangal, Siamese-ginger), a Zingiberaceae rhizomatous herb native to South China to Malesia; Southeast Asian spice (kha) and Ayurvedic/Unani medicine; marker constituents ACA, 1,8-cineole, galangin.
Alpinia purpurata
Alpinia purpurata (red ginger, red-ginger) is a rhizomatous Zingiberaceae herb native to Maluku and the SW Pacific, grown tropically for red-bracted cut-flower spikes; naturalized in Hawaii, Fiji, and Colombia.
ALPL
ALPL (HGNC:438, Gene ID 249) is the human gene at 1p36.12 encoding tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP/TNAP), a GPI-anchored enzyme essential for bone and tooth mineralization; pathogenic variants cause hypophosphatasia.
Alpo Martinez
Alberto "Alpo" Martinez (1966–2021), Harlem drug kingpin of the crack era who ran cocaine from New York to Washington, D.C., testified against Wayne Perry, lived in witness protection as Abraham Rodriguez, and was killed in Harlem on Halloween 2021.
Alport syndrome
Alport syndrome, a hereditary nephritis caused by COL4A3, COL4A4, or COL4A5 variants, causes hematuria, progressive kidney failure, hearing loss, and eye defects; treated with early RAS blockade, no FDA-approved drugs.
Alport syndrome-intellectual disability-midface hypoplasia-elliptocytosis syndrome
Alport syndrome-intellectual disability-midface hypoplasia-elliptocytosis syndrome, or AMME complex, is a rare X-linked contiguous gene deletion syndrome at Xq22.3 involving COL4A5, FACL4, and AMMECR1, affecting males with Alport syndrome, intellectual disability, midface hypoplasia, and elliptocytosis.