Which Winter Olympic sport is the U.S. athlete Peter Johnson associated with?
Peter Johnson (born August 20, 1956 in Truckee, California) is a former World Mogul Skiing Champion, United States Technical Delegate for the International Ski Federation (FIS) and founder of the Pro Mogul Tour (World Pro Mogul Tour).
His skiing career spans the early days of hot dog skiing, where in the early 1970s, the sport began as a free spirited form of expression, quickly gained worldwide recognition under two organizations, Professional Freestyle Associates (PFA) and the International Freestyle Skiers Association (IFSA) and evolved into the Olympic sport that it is today.
As his signature move, performed at the end of every mogul competition, he created and named the Zudnick, a jump where the upper body leans forward toward the tips of the skis.
When The International Ski Federation (FIS) recognized freestyle as a sport in 1979, he became one of the first United States Technical Delegates and Chairman of a three-man international jury (Technical Delegate, Chief of Course and Chief Judge) to oversee all World Cup Freestyle competition in Canada.
The early days of FIS Freestyle Skiing set the stage for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to select Freestyle Skiing as a demonstration event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Mogul skiing was added as an official medal event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and the aerials event was added for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
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