CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'Mikaela Shiffrin hates it. Marta Bassino gets nervous about it. Michelle Gisin, on the other hand, doesn’t mind.
Waiting. With all events on the opening three days of the skiing world championships postponed, athletes have had their patience — not their racing skills — put to the test.
Four gold medals should have been handed out by Wednesday, but so far there have been no races. The weather in the Italian Dolomites has been playing havoc with the race program, with heavy snow forcing the rescheduling of the combined events for both women and men, and the men’s super-G.
Too much snow hasn’t been the only issue. When course workers had cleared the Olympia delle Trofane for the women’s super-G on Tuesday, a fog