Days 3 & 4: Feb 7/8 - set-up nearly complete

More of our crew have joined us during the past two days and we are nearly ready to go.  Today, we met with Omega and talked about their expectations from our crew, and the roles we'll be playing during the races.  We have set up nearly all of the starts and timing points, and have one day left to finish it off before the timed training starts on Wednesday.

This photo shows Mike and Kelly installing a cable to the start posts for the Super-Combined Slalom start - the lowest course start on the mountain. When this start is in use, it will have a tent over it, with a fancy 2010 facade on the downhill-facing side. 

I think that the TV coverage of these races will be better than anything seen before.  The number of camera towers along the courses is unbelievable and the lengths that the Olympic Broadcast Service has gone to in order to put those cameras in the best locations is impressive.  The TV folks are having considerable influence over where the intermediate timing points and speed traps are located, too.

The finish area will be super exciting, with a huge grandstand, colossal TV screens and some big jumps on both the men's and women's downhill courses, just above the Timing Flats finish area.  Tonight, we're all headed out on the buses to the home of our crew chief, Al Whitney, on the north side of Whistler.