Alpine Skiing
- Alpine Skiing World Cup:
- Men's overall season champion: Pirmin Zurbriggen, Switzerland
- Women's overall season champion: Erika Hess, Switzerland
- At the Winter Olympics, Bill Johnson becomes the first American to win the gold medal in downhill skiing.
Read more about this topic: 1984 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word alpine:
“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)