Organisers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics will refund almost $2 million worth of tickets because the ground at Cyprus Mountain is too soft for spectators to stand on.
Cyprus Mountain is the venue for snowboarding and freestyle but the snow's been described by competitors as being like mashed potatoes.
The vice president of ticketing Caley Denton says the cancellation affects about 28,000 ticketholders as the ground is too unstable to have people walking around.
Bad weather at Whistler mountain has also forced postponement of the men's super combined slalom, the main Alpine event scheduled for today.
Mogul skier Alexandre Bilodeau though has won Canada's first gold medal ever in a home Olympics, lifting the so-called curse that's haunted the country since gold-less games in Montreal in 1976 and Calgary in 1988.
While the International Olympic Committee has told United States ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller to take a Miller Time slogan off his mask since it is a popular beer slogan and his teammate Jonathan Quick has had to remove a Support Our Troops slogan for contravening Olympic rules on political propaganda.
