{"id":69699,"date":"2014-02-17T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=69699"},"modified":"2014-02-17T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T11:29:45","slug":"thick-fog-shrouds-sochis-alpine-skiing-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=69699","title":{"rendered":"Thick Fog Shrouds Sochi&#8217;s Alpine Skiing Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add thick fog to the list of tough conditions on the Alpine skiing courses at the Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>With recent warm temperatures softening the snow, and fog shrouding the race hill, organizers called off a free skiing session Monday to keep the course intact for Tuesday&#8217;s women&#8217;s giant slalom.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s race director Atle Skaardal tells The Associated Press that Monday&#8217;s session was canceled &#8220;to save the hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Racers were still allowed to ski on an adjacent training hill, although some said visibility was too low for competition.<\/p>\n<p>Skaardal acknowledged that if the fog remains, it could cause problems for Tuesday&#8217;s race, saying: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ll see anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skaardal said skiers need to see at least three gates ahead through the fog for a race to be held.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add thick fog to the list of tough conditions on the Alpine skiing courses at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}