Alpine Skiing: race start-times pushed back
February 20, 2006 by admin
Filed under Sports Rumors
Official News from Torino Website .. for those of you actually following the scheduled timetable of events ..
Feb 20 2006
SESTRIERE, Feb 20 (Reuters) – The start times of Monday’s two Alpine ski races at the Turin Olympics have been put back to allow workers to clear snow from the pistes, organisers said.
Heavy snow had fallen all day on Sunday, forcing a postponement of the women’s super-G by 24 hours.
Monday dawned clear and bright but organisers said they needed time to clear the men’s giant slalom piste in Sestriere and the women’s super-G course in nearby San Sicario.
The two legs of the men’s race will now start an hour later than planned at 1030 and 1400 local time (0930 GMT and 1300 GMT) with the women’s race pushed back nearly three hours to 1445 local (1345 GMT).
