41.   Valenzuela said the downhill and slalom courses were nearly covered with artificial snow.

42.   With snow falling as darkness approached on Friday, crews took to the mountainside to groom the slalom course.

43.   He had to sit out the giant slalom and skied off the slalom course as he battled a dose of the flu.

44.   A week earlier, the women skiers had complained about a hairpin gate on the World Cup downhill which they compared to a super-giant slalom course.