With the Winter Olympics less than a month away, officials are turning their attention to finding a way to maintain competition ice in Vancouver's wet and humid conditions
The Olympic ice makers are just starting the painstaking process of creating ice surfaces of the required texture and thickness at the Canadian city's speed skating and curling rinks.
The ice maker at the Vancouver Olympic Centre Neil Houston says with the rink being the largest Olympic curling venue yet, there is a possible threat to the competition ice from the number of spectators.
Houston says if it's raining, the water brought in on peoples' clothes will evaporate inside the building and could cause the ice to frost over if the rink's surface gets damp.
But the Vancouver venue director Jan Damnavits says all venues are on schedule to be officially opened one week before the Olympic events begin on February 12.
