Steffen Hoos, aka "Hoosie", Toko's International Race Service Manager
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The weather is back to more how it was
at the beginning of the games: unstable and cloudy with rain and sleet. Meteotest from Bern had
forecasted the light afternoon snowfall. Right at 1pm it started just as
forecasted. The Bern weather forecasts have
been spot on for us at Toko and the teams are given us a lot of praise for our
assistance.
The Men's Giant Slalom in
slightly softer snow conditions than in the past few days. Nevertheless, the track was
Perfect. During the second run, a light
sleet started. However, the conditions were
fair for all racers. In contrast to the speed
disciplines, for the giant slalom and slalom we went with a slightly harder HF
layer because the skis need to experience an acceleration after each gate and
the pressure on the snow is very high. The Topfinish was adapted to the
warm conditions. The speed discipline specialists
have left already to prepare for the upcoming World Cup events.
The Ladies Biathlon had their
final event today which was dominated by the Russian team. Double Olympic Champion Magdalena Neuner made
a noteworthy and unselfish decision today.
She gave up her start position on the relay to make room to allow
another athlete the chance of a medal. This was a very controversial discussion in the eyes of
the German reporters. Of course you want to start the
strongest athletes. I find it very generous and
unselfish of Magdalena. This has become very rare
nowadays, especially in competitive sports.
The weather report says that
tomorrow morning, we will be greeted by 10cm of new snow here in Whistler. We are curious how the teams get
it under control.
Until tomorrow from Whistler
Steffen.
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Atomic Servicemen Ernst Habersatter und Edi Unterberger work for Kjetil Jansrud and
Axel-Lund Svindal
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