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Slovenian Skiing Identity: Historical Path and Reflection

Through its history, skiing was turned into, and emphasised as, a prominent and distinguishing feature of the Slovenes in different historical moments that were of decisive importance for the establishment of Slovenian individuality. Such critical moments, which called for the establishment of a collective identity, range from the times of coexistence in the multinational Hapsburg monarchy to the period of the quest for the way from Yugoslavia into a new and independent state of Slovenia. Indeed, the tendencies to establish and proclaim skiing as a ‘national sport’ seem to coincide with such historical milestones for the Slovenians. On the one hand, efforts to provide evidence of Slovenian primordial devotion to skiing have yielded historical arguments relying for alibi above all on the pre-modern descriptions of Bloke skiing (1689); on the other hand, they included a good century of highly devoted work to organise skiing activities and to engage in them at several levels of contemporary society.