What to look out for in the women's giant slalom

After the postponement of the men's downhill, the women's giant slalom will open the Alpine skiing programme at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Monday. Here is a brief guide to the event:

WHEN IS IT?

There are two runs on Monday (from Sunday night to Monday morning), the first starting at 1015 am local time (0115 GMT/8.15 pm ET) and the second at 1.45 pm (0445 GMT/11.45 pm ET). The high winds that caused the postponement of the men's downhill should not disrupt the schedule as slaloms are often run in weather that would stop speed events.

WHO ARE THE FAVOURITES?

Mikaela Shiffrin begins her highly-anticipated Pyeongchang programme on the back of two World Cup wins this season in the giant slalom.

This is not the American's strongest event, however, and Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg, gold medallist in 2010 and third in 2014, leads the World Cup standings.

France's world champion Tessa Worley showed strong form to beat Rebensburg into second place at the last World Cup giant slalom in Lenzerheide at the end of last month.

Anna Veith won silver under her maiden name Fenninger in Sochi four years ago and will again be a contender to finally claim the one Alpine skiing Olympic title...