Organisers scrambled to reorganise the alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after Saturday's high winds forced the competition to be postponed.
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Team officials and organisers agreed to hold the event, which is only its second edition, on Sunday at noon (AEDT) despite several teams being scheduled to fly home.
The decision is likely to mean some teams have to rearrange their flights and accommodation bookings, but it was not immediately clear if all would remain to compete.
Alpine team officials were to hold their usual pre-race "captains" meeting" on Saturday afternoon, when the start list will be agreed upon, and only then will it be clear how many of the 15 teams will remain in the rescheduled event.
Olympics and International Ski Federation FIS officials were keen to avoid the complications that would come with the rare case of an Olympic event not being held.
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the head of the IOC's coordination commission for Beijing, told the IOC session that these issues were to be expected at a Winter Games.
"We had weather issues but this is Winter Games. We are coping with the difficulties still left but this is winter and we are here to celebrate exactly that. Winter.," he said.
The closing ceremony for the Beijing Games is on Sunday at 11pm AEDT.
The weather forecast for Sunday is for slightly better wind conditions earlier in the day.
On Saturday at noon AEDT, gusts were recorded as between 24 and 28 metres per second. On Sunday gusts are forecast between 19-22 m/s at that time.
The weather also disrupted competition at the National Cross-Country Centre in Zhangjiakou.
The men's 50km cross-country mass start, one of the sport's blue riband events, was postponed by an hour and shortened to 30km due to the high winds.
Australians Phil Bellingham and Seve de Campo were among competitors.
Not everybody in the field was happy with the decision.
"Of course athletes health comes first but we knew it was going to be cold .... look to other sports who moved their events a day earlier. This is not the way to go if we want to develop our sport!" Irish skier Thomas Maloney Westgaard tweeted.
The men's ski halfpipe final went ahead on Saturday, but gusts of wind kicked up snow and skiers lost momentum on the pipe.
Several crashed, including New Zealand gold medallist Nico Porteous, as temperatures dropped to -22C.
"It was gnarly today. And there wasn't even a discussion about postponing or waiting a little bit or anything," British skier Gus Kenworthy said.
The women's 12.5 km biathlon event, originally scheduled for Saturday, was brought forward to Friday due to weather concerns.
The women's 30km cross country ski race on Sunday was also rescheduled and will start two and a half hours earlier, at 2pm AEDT, but the distance will stay the same.
Australians Jess Yeaton and Casey Wright will compete in the event.
- with AP
Australian Associated Press
