YANQING, China — The chatter about the wind started on Thursday, as soon as Matthias Mayer of Austria completed the first training run down the slope nicknamed “Rock.”
By Sunday, when the wind forced a one-day postponement of the men’s downhill, there was only one topic of discussion: It is very, very windy on the Olympic slopes.
“It is always going to be windy,” said Bryce Bennett of the United States, who would have been the first racer down the mountain in the men’s downhill on Sunday. “It’s just how this place is.