Topic: Cypress Mountain
More snow will be flown to the beleaguered Cypress Mountain venue for freestyle skiing and snowboarding, Olympics organisers said Saturday as the battle to keep events on track went on. Warm weather and a lack of snow have plagued Cypress near Vancouver, ...
Clear weather saves snowboarding venue: Cypress Mountain called a 'great success story'The chief of sport for the Vancouver Olympics says Cypress Mountain is now in prime condition for its remaining events. Rain played havoc with the maligned snowboarding venue, but now it's ...
A grief-stricken beginning, a series of glitches _ and the Olympics finally hit their strideYou can see it at the waterfront Olympic cauldron, transformed overnight from something more like a prison yard into a proud public square. And at Cypress Mountain, where ...
Torah Bright won Australia's first gold of the Vancouver Games in women's halfpipe, ending long-standing US domination of the sport. Bright's winning score was 45.00 points, with 2006 champion Hannah Teter of America scoring 42.4 and her team-mate and 2002 gold medallist ...
Wet, warm conditions leave 20,000 fans with no safe place to watch events on Cypress MountainThe roughly 20,000 fans who bought tickets to stand and watch the remaining events on Cypress Mountain are out of luck. Vancouver Olympics officials announced Tuesday that ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Bad weather conditions at the mountain venue of Whistler could force changes to the combined Alpine skiing events, Vancouver Olympics organizers said on Saturday. The Alpine skiing men's downhill for Saturday was already postponed until Monday and organizers said ...
Snow? Rain? Slurries? All 3? Freestylers, snowboarders ready for anything at Cypress MountainTurns out, the snow — or lack thereof — is the least of the problems at Cypress Mountain. The home of the Olympic snowboarding and freestyle events has plenty of ...
Freestyle skiers train on moguls as Olympic organizers truck and fly in snowA clattering helicopter and a rumbling truck dumped more snow on Cypress Mountain, the warm weather-plagued venue where the first Winter Olympic event is just four days away. Olympic organizers ...
US mogul skiers say they're ready for Cypress Mountain whatever the weatherCypress Mountain passed a major test Monday, as freestyle skiers completed their first pre-Olympic practice sessions and Winter Olympic organizers kept dumping snow on competition courses in unseasonably warm weather. "It's ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Olympic Games organizers, scrambling helicopters to pile snow on to the barren freestyle ski and snowboard venue, told the media on Sunday that they would not get access to the first official training session. Officials say they "do not ...
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Vancouver Olympics Snowboarding
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Vancouver Olympics Freestyle Skiing
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