Three training runs and the actual Women's Downhill twice has been cancelled, or postponed that is at the Whistler Creekside Alpine venue. Why? Because the track looked more like Shannon Falls in spring than an Olympic downhill run, and throw in a blanket of heavy fog and you have what's known as less than ideal conditions.
Actually the Dave Murray Downhill has a long history of weather induced cancellations or postponements.
Beginning with the first World Cup downhill to be run in Whistler in 1980, cancelled for lack of snow, through to the last few in the 1990s, variously, too much snow, fog, wind and rain. But this is the Olympics and there has to be a downhill and fortunately Mother Nature decided to play nice for a change and had the good grace to dump a few centimetres of snow on the course Saturday night and cleared the skies Sunday allowing for a few training runs before the race Monday.
