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Alexander Aamodt Kilde and his partner Mikaela Shiffrin will be seeking Olympic gold on the same day after strong winds forced organizers to call off the men’s downhill ski race on Sunday and push it back one day. Beijing Games organizers initially delayed the start of the blue riband event on Xiaohaituo Mountain in Yanqing before having to call it off owing to the adverse conditions. “It would have been a lottery,” race director Markus Waldner from the ruling body FIS told Austrian broadcasters. German skier Romed Baumann welcomed the cancellation for the day, saying: “Rather no race than an …