Problem with the ski jumps was that they were always white elephant.
While I and 30,000 others enjoyed watching ski jumping live in 1988, just a 35 min drive away (as opposed to having to drive to Banff or K country), the location basically in the wide open was as poor as a location weather wise as possible.
Numerous World Cups before and after, and even the Olympic Competition had to be delayed thanks to high winds and/or chinook conditions coming from the west (cross wind). Thus, World Cups and international tours stopped coming here soon after the late 80's, thanks to the unpredictable weather.
Even Canadians couldn't properly train on them, evident by the lack of any ski jumpers in Olympics from Canada, since 1994.
Too bad...such a good landmark, and a constant reminder of the Olympics...but short of putting up permanant wind screens to block the cross winds., theres not much that can be done to make it regulalrly used.
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