Sport in Short: Skiing

RAIN and mild temperatures softened the Kandahar course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany yesterday, forcing the organisers to cancel the last training run for the World Cup men's downhill.

WOMEN'S WORLD CUP DOWNHILL (Cortina D'ampezzo, It) Leading practice times: (First run): 1 K Gutensohn (Ger) 1min 30.37sec; 2 M Gerg-Leitner (Ger) 1:31.04; 3 V Zelenskaya (Rus) 1:31.31; 4 S Schuster (Aut) 1:31.65; 5 K Seizinger (Ger) 1:32.08; 6 H Zurbriggen (Swit) 1:32.39; 7= A Haas (Aut) 1:32.50; H Zeller (Swit) 1:32.50; 9 R Cavagnoud (Fr) 1:32.53; 10 K Schmidinger (US) 1:32.76. (Second run): 1 Gutensohn 1:29.88; 2 Schuster 1:30.21; 3 Cavagnoud 1:30.23; 4 Zurbriggen 1:30.26; 5 Zelenskaya 1:30.31; 6 Seizinger 1:30.58; 7 K Pace (Can) 1:30.68; 8 Zeller 1:30.71; 9 A Wachter (Aut) 1:30.85; 10= H Lindh (US) 1:30.92; S Gladishiva (Rus) 1:30.92.