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<title>Sex abuse charge rocks US speedskating</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 22, 2013) Correction:  NCPR mistakenly reported that Andy Gabel resigned as president of the US Speedskating federation because of the accusations leveled against him.  In fact, Gabel left that post in 2010.  He resigned from US Speedskating&apos;s Hall of Fame committee following the public charges.  We regret the error.Two top women athletes are accusing the former president of US Speedskating of sexual abuse in the 1990s.The charges were first leveled by Bridie Farrell, a skater from Wisconsin, who says she was fifteen years old when the abuse occurred. Farrell says some of the sexual assault occurred during training sessions in Lake Placid and Saratoga Springs. A second skater has since come forward, claiming that she, too, was assaulted. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21832/20130422/sex-abuse-charge-rocks-us-speedskating">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Correction:  NCPR mistakenly reported that Andy Gabel resigned as president of the US Speedskating federation because of the accusations leveled against him.  In fact, Gabel left that post in 2010.  He resigned from US Speedskating&apos;s Hall of Fame committee following the public charges.  We regret the error.Two top women athletes are accusing the former president of US Speedskating of sexual abuse in the 1990s.The charges were first leveled by Bridie Farrell, a skater from Wisconsin, who says she was fifteen years old when the abuse occurred. Farrell says some of the sexual assault occurred during training sessions in Lake Placid and Saratoga Springs. A second skater has since come forward, claiming that she, too, was assaulted. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21832/20130422/sex-abuse-charge-rocks-us-speedskating">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, athletics, sport, speedskating, farrell, gabel, [loc: ], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Review: girls in sports books</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21234/20130111/review-girls-in-sports-books</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 11, 2013) Two new books by writers with ties to the Adirondacks feature girls in elite level sports.  Betsy Kepes reviews Soccerland by Beth Choat and Sugar and Ice by Kate Messner. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21234/20130111/review-girls-in-sports-books">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Betsy Kepes</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two new books by writers with ties to the Adirondacks feature girls in elite level sports.  Betsy Kepes reviews Soccerland by Beth Choat and Sugar and Ice by Kate Messner. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21234/20130111/review-girls-in-sports-books">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:00</itunes:duration>
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