Waxing and grinding gives racers the edge


ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) - At first glance it looks like a ramshackle pile of white shipping containers stacked up in a muddy car park behind the grandstand at the bottom of the Olympic downhill ski run.

Wander across, though, and you discover it is home to the ski technicians who toil away for hours with waxing irons, files and grinders so that the world's top speed merchants can shave crucial tenths of seconds off their times.

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