{"id":5350,"date":"2009-02-17T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2009-02-17T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:18:40","slug":"cypress-mountain-world-cup-slalom-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"Cypress Mountain World Cup Slalom Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/1295121bin.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/1295121bin.jpeg','popup','width=250,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/1295121bin-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1295121.Bin\" \/><\/a>As surprised as we were to learn that snowboarders are still racing slalom, it was sad to see that the management at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cypressmountain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cypress Mountain<\/a><\/strong>, home to next year&#8217;s Vancouver Olympic snowboard events, could not pull of the course prep necessary to hold a slalom event and it was cancelled, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/sports\/2010wintergames\/Cypress+Mountain+fails+World+test\/1293339\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We were pre-riding on the race hill and a lot of athletes were irate at the snow conditions,\u201d said a frustrated Alexa Loo of Richmond, a veteran on the Canadian team. . . .\u201cThere was basically a metre of sugar. There was no bottom. You try to push and there was nothing to push on. It would have been like trying to run a track meet in six inches of mud.\u201d . . .The decision to cancel was made by the International Federation de Ski and accepted by Vanoc, the 2010 organizing committee which is overseeing the venue as an Olympic test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even some of the halfpipe riders were complaining:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just get a bad vibe,\u201d Canadian halfpiper Jeff Batchelor of Oakville, Ont., said Saturday. . . His coach, Jesse Fulton, used even stronger language, about both the condition of the superpipe \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s off axis, not steep enough, not long enough\u201d \u2014 and Cypress\u2019 lack of co-operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, they&#8217;re figure it out by next year when the eyes of the world are watching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/sports\/2010wintergames\/Cypress+Mountain+fails+World+test\/1293339\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As surprised as we were to learn that snowboarders are still racing slalom, it was sad to see that the management at Cypress Mountain, home to next year&#8217;s Vancouver Olympic snowboard events, could not pull of the course prep necessary to hold a slalom event and it was cancelled, according to a story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}