Kanthugen Freestyle Arena
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Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena is a sports venue located in Lillehammer
, Norway
. Part of Lillehammer Olympiapark AS
, it hosted the freestyle skiing
events for the 1994 Winter Olympics
.
Besides its use for freestyle skiing, the facility is also a popular tourism
attraction for tobogganing.
Lillehammer
is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Part of Lillehammer Olympiapark AS
Lillehammer Olympiapark AS
Lillehammer Olympiapark AS is a company established after the 1994 Winter Olympics to run the venues created after those games in Lillehammer, Norway and the surrounding area....
, it hosted the freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...
events for the 1994 Winter Olympics
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...
.
Besides its use for freestyle skiing, the facility is also a popular tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
attraction for tobogganing.