Women’s Alpine ski training disrupted
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Safety concerns forced organizers to halt the first training run for the women’s downhill yesterday, with American Laurenne Ross describing her descent as “intimidating”.
Ross was the first down a piste bathed in dazzling sunshine and only two more runs took place before training was stopped to let workers shave snow off a hump near the finish.
Action resumed after a delay of about an hour and while Austria’s Anna Fenninger set the fastest time many of the favorites for next Wednesday’s showpiece race were using it purely as a chance to familiarize themselves with racing lines.
“You just get really high off the ground, the slope just drops off and you’re still going straight and that’s the problem because you feel like you’re just not going to come down,” Ross said.
“I felt like, ‘You’re welcome, I’ll be your test dummy’,” the 25-year-old Ross said. “I was definitely intimidated. But I’m happy that I was the first skier to go down in the Olympics.”
Ross’s teammate Julia Mancuso, a silver medalist in the downhill behind Lindsey Vonn four years ago, was third quickest behind Fenninger and Swiss Fraenzi Aufdenblatten.
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