What is Guide skier?
[[File:Jon Santacana and Miguel Galindo.ogv|thumb|[[Blindness|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.{{sfn|Johnson|2009|p=5}} 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.{{sfn|International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing|2012|p=6}} Like the skier, the guide has to have an [[IPCAS Licence]] in order to compete in races.{{sfn|International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing|2012|p=7}} Guide skiers need to follow to anti-[[Doping in sport|doping]] rules.{{sfn|International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing|2012|p=9}} == Biathlon == Skiers follow the guide skier in the [[biathlon]].{{sfn|MacAuley|2007|p=663}} == References == {{reflist}} == Sources == * {{cite book|url=http://www.ipc-alpineskiing.org/export/sites/ipc_sports_alpine_skiing/Downloads/11_07_2012IPCAS_RULE_BOOK_2012-2013_NEW1.pdf|accessdate=8 October 2012|title=IPC Alpine Skiing Rules and Regulations|author=International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|year=2012|location=Bonn, Germany}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * {{cite book|first=Robin|last=Johnson|title=Paralympic Sports Events|year=2009|location=St. Catherines, Ontario|publisher=Crabtree Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-7787-4025-4}} <!-- Last name sort: Johnson!--> * {{cite book|first=Domhnall|last=MacAuley|title=Oxford handbook of sport and exercise medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmxsAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=12 September 2013|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-856839-1}} [[Category:Skiing]]