American skier Tommy Ford thought the cascading wall of large white flakes during the first snowy Alpine race of the Beijing Olympics left the slope for Sunday’s giant slalom with a handful of “grippier” spots and “a little chatter here and there.”
His U.S. teammate, River Radamus, described the course known as “The Ice River” as “a little bit bouncy.” To Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen, the precipitation rendered the hill “quite aggressive.”
