Men's DH postponed; women — notably Shiffrin — open Olympics

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — With the men's downhill postponed because of whipping wind Sunday, it'll be the women — and, notably, U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin — who get their first chance in more than 30 years to open the Alpine skiing show at the Olympics.

As her mother, Eileen, who also serves as a coach, watched from the bottom of the Yongpyong hill, Shiffrin joined other racers in taking a couple of casual trips down a gateless giant slalom piste during a free ski the day before Monday's race.

Not since the 1984 Sarajevo Games, when a blizzard led to a rearranged schedule, have the women competed before the men in ski racing at an Olympics.