Andrew Musgrave's weather woes, 'Bring your laptop to dinner', Wanaka forever! - Beijing diary

Something in the water in Wanaka It's been quite some Olympics for Wanaka, a New Zealand town with a population of 8,900. Ad/> Nico Porteous won men's free ski halfpipe gold on Saturday, following Zoi Sadowski Synnott's gold and silver in the snowboard slopestyle and big air. /> Beijing 2022Valieva receives huge welcome home from fans on return to Russia2 HOURS AGO That puts them ahead of Finland, Hungary and Belgium — among others on the medal table.

Muzzy wants to keep moving — not talking Andrew Musgrave was left cursing the weather, officials and the media after his best Olympic chance was dealt a cruel blow. The four-time Olympian was targeting the gruelling 50km cross-country skiing race as his key event in Beijing, believing he was in the shape to put a challenge to the dominant Nordic nations. But he was left fuming after being told the windy conditions and frigid temperate — it was -17 Celsius and even colder with wind chill — meant the showpiece race would be shortened to just 30km.

«I thought it was a ridiculous decision,» he said. «If it's warm enough to race then I don't see why doing an hour and a quarter or 30km, compared to two hours in the 50km, makes it any better. »While you're racing you keep warm and it's not too bad.

You're going so hard that it's easy to keep warm. Standing talking to you after the race, on the other hand, is pretty chilly!" Weathering the storm Storm Eunice has battered Britain this week and the penultimate day of action in Beijing was also bent out of shape by the elements. Due to strong winds and cold, organisers shortened the length of cross-country skiing’s 50km classic to 30km — much to the ire of Britain’s Andrew Musgrave.