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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/8513805.stm

Thats my plans for the day scuppered!
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Oh dear, the Games really have got off to a disastrous start.
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The downhill finishes at village height doesn't it? If so I don't know why the BBC thinks the weather will be better on monday as snow-forecast certainly doesn't think so

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Whistler-Blackcomb/6day/bot
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Man that forecast sucks! Not even cold enough to get the cannons going...

That piste is gonna be a right state!
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I guess they either need a schedule with a delay of several days, or else they need a backup course higher up? Not off to a good start. Shame.
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Remember we have inside information fro mVancouver, the Insider mentioned last night that it was looking shaky

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=61650&highlight=

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=60909
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As a bit of an aside, the BBC previews are rubbish. Instead of action footage its some black and white hunter/explorer. My kids haven't mentioned the olympics yet. Still, hoping to see some ice hockey in some bars next week.
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I've never been to whistler but various people I've met, who have, have always commented on how wet it is in the village. There are plenty of higher pistes, it seems - so why do they have these race courses so low? Are all the events held at the kind of altitude which is going to get rained upon?
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Finish altitude is 825 metres so not exactly low for a finish line. Trouble is being close to the nice warm wet Pacific. "Never go skiing where you can (almost) see fishing boats" someone once said to me and my two experiences of Whistler have both involved heaps of rain at village level.
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When we were in Whistler it was not possible to ski down to Creekside, and only just possible back to Whistler village.
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Whistler is in the biggest rainforest in the Northern Hemisphere. It's that word 'rain' that always makes me wonder if it might rain in a rainforest.
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Whoaoaoaa everyone, it's really not that bad here, just not SAFE enough to race DH. A GS or SL could have run today no problem. There's tons of snow and the snowline is just a couple of hunred vertical metres above the village this morning.
The course isn't wrecked at all and they way they're managing traffic on it meas that it'll stay ok for days. It WILL however make for some very fast racing once the temperature drops....
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If the temperature drops. I'm seriously grumpy now Evil or Very Mad and the missus is grumpy at me for being grumpy Twisted Evil
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Watching the rugby. A short while ago John Inverdale announced cancellation of the men's downhill due to "no snow"... how many BBC folks swilling around Whistler? And they get it sooo wrong.
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i guess if it could be moved they would surely have done so...still a bit wierd there doesnt seem to be any plan B apart from wait and see... Puzzled

And i dont have a plan B for tonight! Might have to treat myself tomorrow to a visit to the epic Hohe Wand Wiese:

http://www.bergfex.at/hohewandwiese/

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Vancouver Insider, so when is it reschuduled for do ya think?
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Vancouver Insider, glad to hear it.
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What's the score with the courses over in Vancouver?
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Whistler is in the biggest rainforest in the Northern Hemisphere. It's that word 'rain' that always makes me wonder if it might rain in a rainforest.


There was definitely a lot of rain when we were there, but there was fresh, but sticky, snow higher up. Visibility was often very poor, I don't think we saw the sun all week, and I found myself longing for the sunny slopes of Serre Chevalier.
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You can tell Whistler seasonnaires because they look like submariners; honestly, all the writers we send out there like the quantity of snow high up but get inevitably rained on and rarely see the sun. Fall-Line's been saying this for years, much to the detriment of our ad budget.
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The morning of our flight back, we left early to go to Stanley Park, I have some fantastic pictures of us there in the pouring rain rolling eyes , although we had a nice but expensive lunch. If we'd waited till later, we would have missed our flight, as the Sea to Sky was closed for several hours due to a fatal accident. We only just made it past the smash, as police and helicopters were arriving.
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I guess they either need a schedule with a delay of several days, or else they need a backup course higher up?

I would be very surprised if the course doesn't start at the very top of the mountain, downhill courses are supposed to be about 2 miles long and there is a minimum length and vertical height. I remember one Olympics where they had to build the start on a restaurant roof to get enough height for the course.
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snowball, There's lodas of mountain above the start, but don't think any of it would be suitable . Map here http://media.intrawest.com/whistler/events/2010_public_downhill_viewing_areas.pdf
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its just been advertised on the rugby as being 'live' at 7 30. Maybe the BBC need to talk amongst themselves as to whats happening!!
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its just been advertised on the rugby as being 'live' at 7 30. Maybe the BBC need to talk amongst themselves as to whats happening!!


I was just going to say that! Perhaps they need to read this thread Toofy Grin
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Helen Beaumont, yes, you are right.

I just looked at the Rules: Downhill courses must have 800 -1100m vertical.
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snowball,

To get the vertical fall, racers went up in the hotel lift and the start 'hut' gate was a window that had been removed from the top floor of the hotel. It was at the top of Flims-Lax if I remember rightly...

The mid point of Whistler mountain is fairly flat and not suitable for a downhill, so if starting higher up there would be too long a gliding mid section I suspect. During the peak to valley race which goes top to bottom, slower folk are usually polling along through that bit!

Having snapped my Achilles on Jan 1st I'm out for the season, and not skiing which is a shame, everyone tells me that the snow high up is great, and the lifts are empty...
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Canadian skiing - minging rain or -40c. Anyone who goes there pretends it's great rather than admit they wasted so much time and money when they would have been better off in Glenshee
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red 27, Toofy Grin Laughing Laughing

but oh so wrong.
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stoatsbrother, you've been then? wink
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Mr Bell seems to think that the reason its been cancelled isn't becasue of the rain....its because the course is too soft higher up where snow had fallen...apperantly it makes the course too easy to rut up during the race which makes it unfair and dangerous. He also commented that the lower part of the course where they had some rain was in better (race) condition than the upper slopes. From the coverage I've seen its looks pretty good out there.
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Enough with the drama, it's been POSTPONED!!! not cancelled.
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red 27 wrote:
Canadian skiing - minging rain or -40c. Anyone who goes there pretends it's great rather than admit they wasted so much time and money when they would have been better off in Glenshee


Not quite true. Maybe true(ish) in Whistler, but Whistler isn't the whole of Canadian skiing Smile
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I have only been to Whistler once, on the 15th and 16th May a couple of years ago. It was brilliant.

I have only been to Glenshee once, in February sometime. It was the best weekend of the whole season apparently. It was poor.

I rest my case.
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This was on the cards for a few days now, Whistler isn't the most reliable place for ski racing.
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To get the vertical fall, racers went up in the hotel lift and the start 'hut' gate was a window that had been removed from the top floor of the hotel. It was at the top of Flims-Lax if I remember rightly...
Sarajevo 1984
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Canadian skiing - minging rain or -40c. Anyone who goes there pretends it's great rather than admit they wasted so much time and money when they would have been better off in Glenshee

Living in Scotland I have skied Glenshee and, on holiday, I have skied in Canada, at Whistler and Banff/Lake Louise. At no time in Canada have I ever wished I was at Glenshee............sadly the converse is not true. Each to his own though.
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Sarajevo 1984


Try Men's downhill, Laax, 1978... Perhaps Sarajevo had the same problem...
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It was always likely that the weather in Whistler/Vancouver had the potential to be less than stellar. I've always thought that the Olympics could backfire badly on Whistler by showing the world quite how much it can rain. Of course the alpine will be epic. wink
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fatbob, compounded of course by an El Nino year... thems the breaks I suppose!
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