Officials confident Cypress Mountain is ready for start of Vancouver Games

Vancouver Games officials confident Cypress ready

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Vancouver Games local organizing committee is convinced concerns about the warm weather’s affect on conditions at Cypress Mountain soon will be forgotten.

Dave Cobb, VANOC’s executive vice president, says both the freestyle skiing and snowboarding courses are at an Olympic-quality caliber.

Tuesday marks the second day of freestyle skiing training sessions. VANOC limited access to Cypress on Monday to coaches and athletes, who reported conditions were fine.

Trucks and helicopters have been dumping tons of snow onto the mountain in an effort to get the Olympic venues ready for the Vancouver Games, which open Friday.

The first event scheduled is women’s moguls qualifying on Saturday, with the finals to be raced later that day.