2022 Beijing Olympics – Alpine Skiing – Mixed Team Parallel 1/8 Finals – National Alpine Skiing Centre, Yanqing district, Beijing, China – February 19, 2022. An Olympic crew member holding a shovel stands near the two courses after organizers announced a delay to the start of the event. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
February 19, 2022
YANQING, China (Reuters) -High winds forced organisers to call off the Alpine mixed team parallel race on Saturday, the penultimate day of the Beijing Winter Games.
In the last Alpine skiing event of the Games, which was only added to the Olympic programme at the last Games in 2018, 15 teams of six men and women are due to compete in a series of parallel slaloms.
The international Ski Federation and Olympic organisers are yet to decide about a potential re-scheduling of the event.
The team event is the last chance for American Mikaela Shiffrin, Alpine skiing’s biggest star, to win a medal. The Games’ closing ceremony takes place on Sunday.
One of the rare skiers who competes in all events of Alpine skiing, Shiffrin has so far ended up with ninth place in super-G, 18th in the downhill and three Did Not Finish results.
(Reporting by Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Jacqueline Wong)
