Kitzbuehel, Austria –Overnight rain transitioned to pancake sized flakes of saturated snow Friday morning, forcing a unanimous jury cancellation of the Hahnenkamm super G in Kitzbuehel.
Over 500 volunteers and course workers were staged for hill preparation on Friday to keep Saturday’s 72nd Hahnenkamm downhill on schedule as snow continued to fall throughout the day.
“It’s a very simple update, all you have to do is go up the window and it will explain everything. The snow is untouchable right now, not skiable, and that’s the reason we had to cancel the race,” Audi FIS Alpine World Cup men’s tour director Guenter Hujara said on Friday. “There is no chance for Monday, there is no makeup day.”
Warm temperatures and rain last canceled both the Kitzbuehel downhill and super G in 2007