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Skiers take a chair lift up the mountain in heavy fog near the alpine skiing training slopes at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Thick fog shrouds Sochi’s Alpine skiing courses

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A course worker clears fresh snow from the alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom course, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The final women's World Cup giant slalom before the Sochi Olympics has been called off because of bad weather, following a day of heavy snowfall. FIS says 200 course workers have been working all morning to clear over a meter of fresh snow, but rain and fog are limiting visibility for the racers on the softened course. ( AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Women’s WCup GS canceled because of rain, fog

By ERIC WILLEMSEN - Associated Press

The finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill is shrouded in fog, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, in the Italian Alps, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. The women's World Cup downhill scheduled for Saturday was postponed until Sunday due to bad weather and soft snow conditions on the Olympia delle Tofane course. More than 30 centimeters (a foot) of fresh snow fell in Cortina on Friday and another storm was due in the Dolomites resort later Saturday. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Women’s downhill in Cortina postponed to Sunday

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press