Organisers scrambled to reorganise the Alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after high winds on Saturday forced the competition to be postponed.
Team officials and organisers have agreed to hold the event, which is only its second edition, on Sunday at 9 a.m. despite several teams being originally scheduled to fly home.
A spokeswoman for the U.S ski team said that most of their squad and support staff were due to leave early on Sunday morning but that changes were being made to allow them to stay. "We had weather issues but this is Winter Games. We are coping with the difficulties still left but this is winter and we are here to celebrate exactly that: winter," he said.
On Saturday at 9 a.m., gusts were recorded as between 24 and 28 metres per second. On Sunday gusts are forecast between 19-22 m/s at that time.The men's 50 km cross-country mass start, one of the sport's blue riband events, was postponed by an hour and shortened to 30km due to the high winds."Of course athletes health comes first but we knew it was gonna be cold ... Look to other sports who moved their events a day earlier.
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