Heavy wind delays Olympic Alpine schedule; men’s downhill event postponed without makeup date

BEIJING — The men’s downhill on the Beijing Olympics was postponed due to wind that gusted at as much as 40 mph on the prime of the course when the race was supposed to begin Sunday, delaying the opening race of the Alpine schedule.No new date was introduced instantly.The first ladies’s race — the enormous slalom — is scheduled for Monday, with Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States defending her Olympic gold from 2018.At the highest of the pace course generally known as The Rock at Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center, the wind was deemed too harmful when Sunday’s men’s race initially was scheduled to start at 11 a.m.2 AssociatedThe begin was delayed 3 times for a complete of three hours within the hope that the wind would relent. But ultimately the choice was made at 1 p.m. to place it off to a different day.Wind was additionally a problem for Alpine snowboarding 4 years in the past on the Pyongchang Games, the place a number of races had been postponed and the schedule was shuffled repeatedly.Saturday’s third and last coaching session for the lads was stopped after simply three skiers due to wind.None of the world’s prime racers had ever seen the course till the primary coaching run on Thursday. The standard pre-Olympic take a look at occasions had been scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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