BEAVER CREEK — The men’s super-G at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed because of weather.
The race has been rescheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday. There were no races previously scheduled that day — only men’s and women’s downhill training. Thursday’s training session for the men has been cancelled, and the women will train at 1:30 p.m.
About 4-6 inches of fresh snow — warm and wet in consistency — covered the 1.2-mile course. The race course starts at 10,945 feet and finishes at 8,941 feet, but down in Avon at 7,400 feet, a light rain was falling.
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“The track was in good shape along the race line,” said U.S. men’s coach Sasha Rearick. “I think the jury made a decision based on the forecast, that it was going to be a less-than-fair race with wind and conditions so they decided to postpone for (Thursday).”
The course was set by Austrian coach Florian Winkler, and he will be responsible for the course Thursday as well. Whether he leaves the course in place or resets may be dependent on the weather.
“If it does not snow too much, they will leave the course in place,” Rearick said. “If it snows a lot and they have to bring cats in to move the snow off the entire hill, then they’ll have to reset.”
Rearick said he likes the course set as is.
“It had some swing on the top that challenged the technical side of skiers,” Rearick said. “There was one difficult section, where you had to ski smart. Then it ran more like a traditional super-G that flowed with the hill very nicely.”
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