As if Intrawest’s financial problems are enough of a mark on the 2010 Vancouver Games, Cypress Mountain, the resort that will be hosting the snowboard events closed yesterday for lack of snow, but that’s okay. Apparently artificial snow is better. . .
Rain and warm temperatures forced Cypress Mountain, the Vancouver ski resort that will host the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at next month’s Winter Olympics, to close Monday, but officials promise there will be plenty of snow for the Games. . . .”Right now we have all the snow that we need on the competition area,” said Tim Gayda, the vice-president of sport for the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee. “The nice thing about artificial snow is it’s more resilient and actually stands up better to this kind of weather.
Apparently, it’s Canadian super artificial snow. Right. . .
[Link: The Toronto Star]
I hope they got ‘fog-cutter’ cameras for the actual event becuase that place will have little to no visibilty come ‘O-Day’……….
rut roh, maybe corps arent the best for managing ski resorts…
very little snow at 10k in utah.
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