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<title>Olympic athletes lobby for ORDA Funding</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15437/20100329/olympic-athletes-lobby-for-orda-funding</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 29, 2010) The only firm plan on today&apos;s agenda at the state Legislature is for the Senate to give final approval of Gov. David Paterson&apos;s emergency bare-bones budget plan. The budget is supposed to be in place by April 1, but lawmakers plan to take their Passover-Easter break this week. They’re wrangling over a spending plan that includes some of the deepest cuts ever in school aid and other areas to contend with the state&apos;s fiscal crisis. The latest competing proposals are $1 billion apart. The state&apos;s fiscal health is in the balance. So are facilities and services considered vital to communities across the North Country: from parks to prisons, to ski hills.Friday, local athletes just back from competing in the Vancouver Olympics were in Albany fighting for Lake Placid&apos;s Olympic venues. Chris Knight reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15437/20100329/olympic-athletes-lobby-for-orda-funding">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Olympians rally for local ski hill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 22, 2010) Many of the nation&apos;s top alpine skiers, including more than a dozen Olympians, are in the North Country to compete in the 2010 U.S. Alpine Championships at Whiteface Mountain, which got underway Saturday and continue today. The roster of athletes includes Julia Mancuso, who won two silver medals at the Vancouver Winter Games, and 2006 Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety. But before they took to the slopes of Whiteface, a half-dozen members of the U.S. Alpine Ski Team visited Mount Pisgah, a small ski hill run by the Village of Saranac Lake, to ski with area kids and help raise funds for a new lift at the ski center. Chris Knight reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15405/20100322/olympians-rally-for-local-ski-hill">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A look back at the Olympics</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15344/20100309/a-look-back-at-the-olympics</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 9, 2010) Lake Placid-based photographer Nancie Battaglia was NCPR’s eyes, and ears, during the Vancouver Olympic games. Battaglia came to Lake Placid to document the 1980 Winter Olympics, and she’s is now an experienced Olympic “regular.” Vancouver was her eighth games, seventh winter games.  She shoots for a number of publications, including Sport Illustrated. This year she not only sent us great shots of local athletes at the games, she found their families and fans, too, and checked in on-air during breaks in the action. Martha Foley called her for a final conversation this week. She’s been back for about a week, catching up, catching her breath. She left early on the final Sunday – missing the climactic US Canada hockey game, but also ahead of the crowds that jammed the region’s airports that night and the next day. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15344/20100309/a-look-back-at-the-olympics">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Saranac Lake honors local Olympians</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 8, 2010) A huge crowd turned out Friday afternoon in Saranac Lake for a parade through the village&apos;s downtown to honor the North Country athletes who competed at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Organized by the Olympic Regional Development Authority, the Women&apos;s Civic Chamber and the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, the event brought together eight local Olympians, led by nordic combined gold and silver medalist Bill Demong of Vermontville. As Chris Knight reports, the parade was just as important to the athletes as it was to the local residents who cheered them on in Vancouver. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15339/20100308/saranac-lake-honors-local-olympians">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Heard Up North: Canada wins gold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 1, 2010) Canadians celebrated the thrilling gold medal victory across the country last night.  On Rue St. Laurent in downtown Montreal, cars paraded uptown with Canadian flags flying.  The party spilled out of Champs Sports Bar for today’s Heard Up North. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15303/20100301/heard-up-north-canada-wins-gold">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Weibrecht heading home, parade planned today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 26, 2010) Lake Placid plans a first Olympic celebration this afternoon at 4, starting near the Olympic Arena, to celebrate alpine skier Andrew Weibrecht&apos;s bronze medal in Super-G.  There will be more celebrations once all the region&apos;s Olympic athletes come home from Vancouver, with Saranac Lake planning a parade on March 13th.  The two Adirondack communities combined to produce ten percent of the total U.S. medals so far in Vancouver.  Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15294/20100226/weibrecht-heading-home-parade-planned-today">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Adirondacks&apos; Bill Demong earns Olympic gold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 26, 2010) Vermontville&apos;s Bill Demong gave the United States its first Olympic gold medal ever in a Nordic event  as Americans posted a 1-2 finish in the Nordic Combined ski event at the Vancouver Olympics yesterday. Teammate Johnny Spillane captured the silver.Demong surged from sixth place after the ski jump to win the 10-kilometer cross-country leg by four seconds. Bernhard Gruber of Austria, who had a head start after jumping the farthest off the large hill, took the bronze.Demong will be flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at the Olympic closing ceremony Sunday. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15293/20100226/adirondacks-apos-bill-demong-earns-olympic-gold">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>North Country crew works behind the scenes at Olympics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 26, 2010) While North Country athletes competing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been grabbing the headlines, and rightfully so, another group of local residents has been making a quieter contribution to the games. People from the Saranac Lake and Lake Placid area have been working at the Olympics, helping to run bobsled, luge and skeleton races, setting up interviews and photo shoots for athletes, organizing events for sponsors, and playing a host of other behind-the-scenes roles. Chris Knight reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15289/20100226/north-country-crew-works-behind-the-scenes-at-olympics">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Demong captures silver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 24, 2010) Vermontville’s Bill Demong captured a silver medal yesterday afternoon in the Olympic Nordic combined competition in Vancouver.  Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15277/20100224/demong-captures-silver">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Olympics:  Weibrecht Bronze; Burke 18th; Demong has another shot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 22, 2010) The Olympic buzz in Lake Placid over the weekend was all about native son Andrew Weibrecht.  On Friday afternoon, the 23-year-old downhill skier claimed the bronze medal in the Super-G competition in Vancouver. He was edged by a fraction of a second by fellow American Bode Miller, who won silver.  Peter Crowley with the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is in Vancouver.  He spoke with Brian Mann last night about Weibrecht’s win. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15259/20100222/olympics-weibrecht-bronze-burke-18th-demong-has-another-shot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>More struggles for North Country Olympians</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 19, 2010) The Winter Olympics in Vancouver are just about halfway done. There are just four medal events on the schedule today, and they&apos;re all being held at Whistler. First up is the men&apos;s Super G. Bode Miller will be looking for his second medal of these games. In cross-country skiing, the women compete in the 15 kilometer pursuit. Finally, at the Whistler Sliding Center, both the women and the men will complete the skeleton. Weather forecasts look good, if a tad warm. After a cold night, skies should be clear with highs in the low 40s.Overall, the US team is leading the medal count. Last night,  figure skater Evan Lysacek added to the gold medal count, the first American to win gold since Brian Boitano in 1988. We&apos;ve been following the dozen-plus North Country athletes in Vancouver, and they&apos;ve had their disappointments this week. Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15253/20100219/more-struggles-for-north-country-olympians">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>StoryCorps:  Bailey and Burke turn Adirondack friendship into Olympic dream</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 18, 2010) This afternoon in Vancouver, North Country biathletes Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke could have their best shot at winning an Olympic medal when they compete in the 20 kilometer individual race.  Bailey, from Lake Placid, and Burke, from Paul Smiths, have been friends and training partners since they were little boys.  They raced together at the Torino Winter Games in 2006. Both men sat down with their former coach, Kris Cheney Seymour from Saranac Lake, to talk about their lives and their careers.  Their conversation, recorded in 2008 as part of the national StoryCorps project, offered an intimate and personal look at what it means to spend decades chasing an Olympic dream. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15249/20100218/storycorps-bailey-and-burke-turn-adirondack-friendship-into-olympic-dream">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Wet weather dampens mood in Vancouver, but Games go on</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 16, 2010) Lake Placid photographer Nancie Battaglia is now at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. She&apos;s there shooting for Sports Illustrated and other magazines.And she says the weather is confounding almost everything and everyone—including Paul Smiths biathlete Tim Burke. And she&apos;s seen Saranac Lake luger Chris Mazdzer. Jonathan Brown asked her about the mood at these games in light of the bad weather and the death of the luger from the nation of Georgia. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15236/20100216/wet-weather-dampens-mood-in-vancouver-but-games-go-on">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Weekend weather side-swipes NC Olympians</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 15, 2010) In Olympic competition over the weekend, biathlon skiers Tim Burke from Paul Smiths and Lowell Bailey from Lake Placid were side-swiped by Vancouver’s nasty weather. On Sunday, race conditions for the ski-and-shoot-competition changed rapidly over the course of the 10k sprint, with rain and sleet turning to heavy snow. That gave athletes who raced earlier in the day a clear advantage, Burke said. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer, &quot;That was, by far, the most unfair race I&apos;ve ever been a part of.&quot; Burke finished 47th overall, with Bailey winding up in 36th place.  Meanwhile, Vermontville’s Bill Demong finished in sixth place over the weekend in the first Nordic combined competition of the Games.  Demong struggled in the jumping portion of the event, but was one of the top cross-country ski racers.  American Johnny Spillane finished second yesterday, giving the American team its first-ever Nordic combined medal. Bailey, Burke, Frenette, and Demong will have more chances to medal later in the Vancouver games. In Olympic jumping, meanwhile, Saranac Lake’s Peter Frenette finished in 41st place on the short hill.  Chris Mazdzer of Saranac Lake was 13th in men’s luge singles. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15233/20100215/weekend-weather-side-swipes-nc-olympians">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A photographer&apos;s eye on the Vancouver Games</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15190/20100205/a-photographer-apos-s-eye-on-the-vancouver-games</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 5, 2010) Photographer Nancie Battaglia is familiar to most of us as a talented all-around photographer, with an eye for both people and landscape. Her photographs regularly appear in Adirondack Life and other publications – including NCPR’s book, Food, Stories, Life. But she came to Lake Placid to document the 1980 Winter Olympics… and Winter Olympics are still a sort of specialty. Battaglia will be checking in with North Country Public Radio from the Vancouver Games. Martha Foley spoke with her this morning. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15190/20100205/a-photographer-apos-s-eye-on-the-vancouver-games">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Film explores history, ideals of Lake Placid Winter Olympics</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15185/20100204/film-explores-history-ideals-of-lake-placid-winter-olympics</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 4, 2010) Lake Placid’s Olympic heritage goes deep — back to 1932, and through the “Miracle on Ice” 1980 games, to this month’s games in Vancouver, Canada.  The story of how Lake Placid developed as a winter sports resort and hosted two Olympic Winter Games is told in the documentary Small Town, Big Dreams.  The film is being shown nationwide on public television this month as part of the 30th anniversary of the winter games in Lake Placid.  It includes rare film footage and audio recordings from museums and private collections.  Todd Moe talks with Adirondack-area filmmaker Scott Carroll about some of the people behind the &apos;32 and &apos;80 Winter Olympics, and whether the region could host the winter games again. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15185/20100204/film-explores-history-ideals-of-lake-placid-winter-olympics">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Olympic preview:  ski cross thrilling... and unsafe?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 4, 2010) The Winter Olympics open Feb. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and this year, ski cross will make its debut. The sport has been a favorite of the Winter X Games.  Skiers come out of the gates four at a time, competing for space on the narrow, twisty half-mile course and jockeying for position. They finish in about 50 seconds and get up to speeds of 50 mph, with lots of twists and turns and bumps and jumps along the way. But the sport is also controversial.  At the Nature Valley World Cup ski cross final in Lake Placid, N.Y. last month, a skier from France was paralyzed from the waist down.  NPR’s Melissa Block has our story. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15182/20100204/olympic-preview-ski-cross-thrilling-and-unsafe">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>After departing Lake Placid, American bobsled team rebuilds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 3, 2010) Four years ago, the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, then based in Lake Placid, fell into turmoil just before the Winter Olympics in Turin. The team dismissed head-coach Tim Nardiello following allegations of sexual harassment. Top athletes were knocked out of competition by freak accidents and a controversy involving performance-enhancing drugs. Team leaders say they’ve rebuilt the organization and developed a powerful new stable of athletes – including Lake Placid’s John Napier – who could return to the podium in Vancouver. But as Brian Mann reports, the Americans will have to compete without one of its best bobsledders. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15174/20100203/after-departing-lake-placid-american-bobsled-team-rebuilds">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>St Lawrence University alum hopes to win more Gold skating for Canada in Vancouver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 3, 2010) This week, we&apos;re hearing from Olympians with athletic roots here in the North Country. The region has deep ties with 12 competitors in this year&apos;s Olympic Games in Vancouver.Gina Kingsbury skated with the Saints through her four years at St Lawrence University. After graduating in 2004, she returned to her native Canada and won a Gold Medal with the women&apos;s hockey team at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy.Kingsbury is a forward, now living in Quebec, but training in Calgary. She just finished practice and came off the ice before talking with Jonathan Brown. She said—compared to playing with the Saints—skating with the champion Canadian Women&apos;s Team is a little different, but there are similarities, as well. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15173/20100203/st-lawrence-university-alum-hopes-to-win-more-gold-skating-for-canada-in-vancouver">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Demong&apos;s Olympic journey: from Vermontville to Vancouver</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15162/20100201/bill-demong-apos-s-olympic-journey-from-vermontville-to-vancouver</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 1, 2010) This morning, we begin our week-long series previewing the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.  We&apos;ll look at Lake Placid&apos;s continuing Olympic legacy and we&apos;ll profile some of the athletes heading west to compete.  In all, more than a dozen North Country competitors will take part in the Winter Olympics this year.   This morning, we begin with Brian Mann&apos;s story of Bill Demong, the Nordic combined skier from Vermontville. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15162/20100201/bill-demong-apos-s-olympic-journey-from-vermontville-to-vancouver">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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