Overseas ski teams to train

Press, 16 August 1982, Page 36

Overseas ski teams to train

Although the competition has finished at Mount Hutt, training will continue in New Zealand for a number of the overseas ski teams which contested the Europa F.I.S. series.

The Swiss will train downhill this week on a shorter track than that used for the international races. The remaining members of the New Zealand team, and possibly the Japanese (here until Wednesday) and some of the Americans, will also train on the course.

During the week the American team will be training. G.S. and slalom on the right-hand side of the 2A Tbar lift. All the Italians, exuberant after their haul of four gold medals and quite happy with their training at Mount Hutt,

are heading north to try a different venue, Turoa, on Mount Ruapehu, while the Canadian men's downhill team is off home today, with a stop-over in Fiji on the way. The public should be little inconvenienced by the overseas teams training scheduled at Mount Hutt this week. Mr Robin Armstrong, head of the race department, said that the racers would have an early start on the lifts with their training areas open to the public after 11 a.m. “Training finishes at 11 a.m. and then they’ll have lunch and free ski-ing in the afternoon." The Norwegians will have their last day of training today.