a Good three hours before the scheduled Start of the Olympic track in 2014 in the Russian ski resort of Rosa Khutor, the world Federation announced that the already repeatedly postponed races can’t take place again. The reason for the failure of the strong snowfall of the past few days.

The weather improves late

“The snow has ceased of late,” said the press Secretary of the Russian ski Federation, Olga Laewa, compared to the French news Agency AFP. Therefore, it was possible to track down. “The surface is now too soft for a race is insufficient,” added Laewa.

The weather was, as forecast, the better. However, especially in the lower part of the soft-to-the Olympic range of 2014 after the heavy snow of the past days cases, not be prepared so to ensure for the driver inside risk-free harvest.

crystal balls already awarded

The world Cup-from entourage travelled from Russia, without a race or just a Training. The cancelled races can not be made up in the last two world Cup weeks in Spindleruv Mlyn and Soldeu, and is to be deleted. There is only one departure is pending, the small crystal globe for the first time since 2007 (Renate goetschl) back to Austria. Nicole Schmidhofer can only be intercepted by their 90 points in the past ÖSV-team colleague Ramona siebenhofer.

In the Super-G standings, the American Mikaela Shiffrin, who had dispensed with the trip to Russia, before the last race of the season in this discipline, with 32 points ahead of the Liechtensteiner Tina Weirather in the lead. On sure, Shiffrin has already the overall world Cup and the Slalom crystal globe. Also in the giant slalom world Cup, the 23-Year-old the best prospects. (sda)

Created: 03.03.2019, 08:38 PM