Are: Men's super G postponed yet again

A Monday morning of hope for racing at these World Championships was again dashed at noon local time when officials postponed the men's super G for a second time because of poor weather.
    Strong winds near the race start failed to subside in time for the scheduled 12:30 p.m. start. At one time during the morning, the start time was pushed back to 1 p.m. before the final decision to postpone was announced at noon.
    With Monday's postponement, a super Tuesday of sorts sets up at these World Championships as the men and women will now both attempt to race super G on the same day. The men will shoot for a 10 a.m. start and the women for 12:30 p.m. in Are.
  

ARE, Sweden — A Monday morning of hope for racing at these World Championships was again dashed at noon local time when officials postponed the men's super G for a second time because of poor weather.
    Strong winds near the race start failed to subside in time for the scheduled 12:30 p.m. start. At one time during the morning, the start time was pushed back to 1 p.m. before the final decision to cancel was announced at noon.
    With Monday's postponement, a super Tuesday of sorts sets up at these World Championships as the men and women will now both attempt to race super G on the same day. The men will shoot for a 10 a.m. start and the women for 12:30 p.m. in Are.
    "It was really quite harsh. It was blowing really hard at the start," U.S. men's head coach Phil McNichol said. "They had no chance of running today.
    "The track was OK, if it hadn't been blowing so hard; it wouldn't have been ideal but we could have raced except for the wind. The course workers have done an unbelievable job preparing the hill … but the winds stopped everything," he said.
    The World Championships were supposed to begin three days ago with men's super G on Saturday and the women's super G on Sunday. Monday was scheduled as a speed training day.
    The remainder of the week’s schedule, weather permitting, shows downhill training for both men and women on Wednesday, the men’s super combined and women’s downhill training Thursday and the women’s super combi on Friday.
    With the super G shutdown, U.S. men did some slalom training as a lead-in for the super combined race (a downhill and one run of slalom) on Thursday. McNichol said Olympic combined champion Ted Ligety, Miller — the 2003 worlds combined gold medalist — and Steven Nyman would start the super combined plus a fourth athlete to be named Wednesday night at team captains' meeting when the start list will be determined.

— USSA contributed to this story