The opening women’s Alpine skiing event of the Vancouver Olympics, the super-combined scheduled for Sunday, will be rescheduled because of poor weather. The event can only take place if a downhill training run has been completed and that will not be possible on Saturday with priority given to the first men’s race, the blue-riband downhill, FIS women’s race director Atle Skaardal said.

Saturday’s men’s downhill, the premier event in Olympic Alpine skiing, will be postponed unless there is a significant improvement in the course condition. “If the slope remains the same as it is right now, there will certainly be no downhill,” Hujara told reporters.

The men’s Olympic downhill moved a step closer to going ahead as planned on Saturday after the field all completed a training run despite poor weather. Fog cut short practice sessions on Wednesday and Thursday but all 89 starters have now had a mandatory run, allowing the race to go ahead. However, the weekend weather forecast for Whistler is for heavy snow, which could force a postponement.

The 2010 Winter Olympics will begin under a serious cloud after the death of a Georgian luger in training on Friday ahead of the opening ceremony. The 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed at high speed at the Whistler Sliding Centre. There are now serious doubts over the staging of all the sliding events.

The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held from the 12th- 28th February in Vancouver, Canada, with events also taking place in Whistler, Cypress Mountain and Richmond. Over the 17 days, 5,500 athletes and officials from over 80 countries will descend on British Columbia for an event that will be watched by some 3 billion worldwide television viewers.

Eurosport will be providing round the clock coverage of events. Most of the alpine events will also be shown live on BBC2, hosted by the Ski Sunday team. Until then, we’ve got all the information you need right here. Remember the time difference for where you are — it’s 8 hours between GMT and Vancouver.

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-schedule-results/

Follow the Winter Olympics 24/7 on British Eurosport (Sky 410 / Virgin 521) and Eurosport HD (Sky 412) British Eurosport channels are streamed online via the Eurosport Player.

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The BBC is to promote its Winter Olympics coverage with an animated clip featuring an Inuit hero on a mission, after the success of the monkey cartoon that backed the broadcast of the Beijing Olympics. The 40-second clip will break tonight on BBC1, as the corporation starts promoting its forthcoming coverage of the Winter Olympics, which begin in Vancouver on 12 February.

BBC Sport will be providing comprehensive coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games which will run from the 12 February to 28 February, including the Opening and Closing ceremonies. As Britain’s Winter Olympic and Winter Paralympic broadcaster, coverage will be available on TV (including HD), radio, online, BBC red button, mobile and BBC iPlayer and the BBC is set to provide more coverage than ever before.

The 2010 Vancouver Olympics will represent the 14th Winter Olympic Games broadcast by the BBC, a sequence that has run unbroken since the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, California, USA. Viewers will be able to access live coverage, the latest news updates and any of those missed magical moments, regardless of the time of day and where they are, through the BBC’s extensive TV, radio, online, red button, mobile and BBC iPlayer services.