Bad Weather Causes Ski-ing Changes

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 19

Bad Weather Causes Ski-ing Changes

(Neto Zealand Press Association)

THE CHATEAU, September 22.

Almost impossible weather conditions have caused the postponement of the NewZealand amateur downhill ski championships at Mount Ruapehu until at least Friday.

The downhill championships were originally scheduled for tomorrow. It has been decided, instead, to hold the slalom championship tomorrow and the downhill on Friday, so that skiers will be able to train on the downhill course before the race.

Heavy snow fell for most of the day on the mountain and although skiers were on hand to test the runs, the weather made this impossible. Further down the mountain persistent rain fell throughout the day and much snow down to and below the Chateau Tongariro was washed away. There was a very light snowfall late in the afternoon.

The slalom is the first event of the men's and women’s amateur ski running championship, which is decided on an aggregate of that race and the downhill. The course will be set tomorrow morning by the visiting French skier, Phillipe

including two girls,, will relay the flame to the Olympic Stadium. A 19-year-old university student, who was born in Hiroshima on the day the atom bomb was dropped on the city, will carry the flame into the stadium and light the Olympic cauldron.

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A new kind of soft drink will be among the many different tastes and flavours athletes will encounter in Tokyo.

The drink—called calpis—is available free from dispensing machines in the men’s and women’s sections of the village, and at various Olympic venues. Although it is made from fresh milk, and looks white, it tastes more like lemonade. Whatever Australians and New Zealanders think of the taste, they will find calpis a refreshing novelty.

Mollard, who is attached to the Chateau Ski School. A strong field of 43, headed by the visiting Swiss team, will contest the men’s event. The national champion, P. Quinn, will be hard pressed by the much improved R. Palmer, P. Goldstern and W. F. I. Hunt, and will have to be on his best form to win. The Swiss team is not eligible to take the titles.