YANQING, China — High-speed winds and controversy swept through the National Alpine Skiing Center here on Saturday, with the cancellation of a men’s downhill training session sparking fears that the Olympic competition will be neither safe nor fair.
Organizers, citing wind gusts that created “dangerous” and “unpredictable” conditions, called off Saturday’s session after just three runs. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the gold medal favorite, got one of them.
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