International Roundup: Injuries, training runs and police raidsDue to poor visibility, high winds and light snowfall the third training run of the Women’s Lake Louise World Cup Downhill has been cancelled, as confirmed by John Cassels, race chairman of the CIBC Lake Louise Winterstart as of 11:00am MST Thursday morning. Racing is scheduled to begin Friday with the first of two Women’s downhills. Due to the cancellation of today’s training run the start order will be reverse top-30 results from Wednesday’s training run. -Courtesy ACA

Police raid Torino 2006 offices

The president of Turin’s Olympic Committee (TOROC), Valentino Castellani, said last week that police swooped in on TOROC’s headquarters, just one week after searching the offices of a company in charge of building works for the 2006 Games. Click here to read more.

World Cup athletes in various states of health

The early season is often a likely time for injuries, as athletes are still getting back the reflexes they have in the late winter. At Aspen, Niki Hosp of Austria fell and received serious bruises, and is taking time off after flying back home. In the Beaver Creek super G, Ambrosi Hoffman injured the medial collateral ligament in his left knee, and is likely out for three to six weeks, according to the head coach of Switzerland’s men’s team, Martin Rufener. Britain’s top female alpine skier, Chemmy Alcott, skipped the World Cup races in Aspen because of a bruised ankle, but is in Lake Louise for the races there. Marco Sullivan is walking around Beaver Creek, having fun with friends; he is rehabbing a knee that he blew out in France in late October. Among other activities, he has been earning money as a snowcat driver at a small resort near Lake Tahoe.

Val d’Isere ready for the World Cup’s return to Europe

This Wednesday, officials inspected the track at Val d’Isere, and gave it good marks. The French resort is where the men’s World Cup goes after Beaver Creek, for a GS and downhill race on the weekend of December 11-12. The next weekend after that (December 18-19) sees the women arrive there at the home mountain of Jean-Claude Killy. Over a foot of fresh snow fell early this week over an underlayer of artificial snow. The installation of the last safety nets will be made on Monday, while the athletes fly from Colorado, for training runs that begin on Wednesday.