The latest: (9:20 a.m. Mountain time) The International Ski Federation just pushed the second run back to 6. p.m. Central European Time, which is 10 a.m. here in Vail.
With apologies to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but the waiting is the hardest part.
Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin is sitting fourth between runs at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, with Germany’s Victoria Rebensburgh leading with a first-run time of 1 minute, 0.91 seconds. Slovakia’s Petra Vhlova is second, 19-hundredths off the pace.
Norway’s Ragnhild Mowinckel is third, 37-hundredths of a second behind Rebensburg, with Shiffrin in fourth, 44-hundredths out.
The second run is set for 6 p.m. — under the lights — in Sweden. For those calculating at home here in Vail, that would be 10 a.m. Mountain time. NBC Sports Network (channel 52 on local cable and 220 on Directv) goes live on the air at 9:30 a.m. If you’re at work, here’s the link.
High winds and warm temperatures, according to The Associated Press, have pushed the GS back in the schedule time-wise and down to the reserve (lower) start on the course. There has been rain on the course.
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“They did a lot of work on the surface here, and it was an incredible effort to get this race off,” said Shiffrin, who won a gold medal in the super-G last week, to AP. “That said, it’s a challenge to push on and get a response from the surface, so it was a balance of how hard you can push and how much risk you can take.”
Vail’s Sarah Schleper, racing for Mexico, did not make the flip, or the top 30 required to make the second run, finishing 48th.
For those not familiar with World Cup racing, GS is a two-run race. The racers go off n the second run in reverse order of their finish in the first run, meaning that Shiffrin will kick out of the gate as the fourth-to-last athlete.
We will be updating this story as the second run goes off at 9:45 Mountain time.
