If it goes ahead here are the numbers....
Team captains has been and gone and the draw has been made. The common perception is that early numbers are favoured especially after the rain this afternoon....
Bear in mind that it is 22 years since the Swiss have taken the Gold in the Downhill and Cuche goes 17. Here are a few numbers of racers to watch out for:1 Kostelic...started off as a downhiller, sister won DH Gold
2 Grugger ... coming back to form, could benefit from early number
3 Zrncic Dim ... has no fear! Awesome talent
4 Poisson ... strong as a ....fish! Outside bet?
5 Sporn ... almost won Kitz from an early number.
6 Sullivan ... Has the ability to spring an outside chance of a medal
7 Fill ... Fresh, talented and could hold on if he can get his head down first
8 Buechel ... One last hurrah? Has wise head on final flourish!
9 Kroell ... Needs a big result
10 Olsson ... Outsider
11 Jerman ... Will not want to see Sporn usurp him
12 Hoffman ... 22 years of hurt likely to continue for the Swiss
13 Guay ... Home advantage and had a great training run, medal chance
14 Scheiber ... The new kid on the block, great fighter, medal chance
15 Miller ... New Bode, new thing to take home?
16 Heel ... You can never write him off
17 Cuche ... Can he do it? Will the weather Gods deprive him of the ultimate medal
18 Walchhofer ... 4 years of pain, won the training run, can he win the real thing?
19 Svindal ... Can he follow in the tracks of the other Norse Gods, a big time skier
20 Osborne-Paradis ... Is this his day?
21 Janka ... never write this man off
22 Defago ... He won Wengen and Kitz in 09, can he add Vancouver 2010 to the list?
23 Innerhofer ... Will his number be a hindrance?
24 Jaerbyn ... Age adding up against him?
25 Weibrecht ... First OIympics
26 Clarey ... Top ten would be good
27 Dixon ... Watch out for this one, skiing super fast
28 Theaux ... Coming in under the radar
29 Staudacher ... Has taken the World's, can he reach the Olympic top step?
30 Nyman ... This would be the ultimate Birthday present
43 Ed Drake... Experience will do him well. Looking for top 20 result to justify and pacify
