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January 15, 2016 Posted by Paul

World Junior Trials in Thunder Bay –

We’ve had two exciting days of racing: sprints yesterday and interval start classic today. Lots of strong results from our TR2 Advanced crew! Today’s highlights included Gareth (4th) and David (21st) in a category with 51 athletes, and Eliza-Jane 17th in her category. Way to go!

Interval start classic results

Sprint results

International Children’s Winter Games –

Day 3 report from Ross: Just wrapping up an exciting day of sprint racing at the international children’s games. Today was a beautiful spectacular day with great views of the Alps. It was sunny and -12 so very great conditions. The kids raced really well. Oliver qualified 18th and Grayson 22nd so both made the quarterfinals but were knocked out in the heats. Clara qualified 22nd and was also knocked out in the 1/4 final. Sally skied really well qualified 12 and ended up in the B final placing 11th overall despite having a really sore back from a fall on the ice last night. The kids are having a blast meeting kids from all over the world and trading pins, shirts, and hats with them. So overall it is been a great experience and one that the kids and myself will never forget. One more race to go which is a mixed relay where the kids are mixed with kids from all over the world.

Day 4 report from Ross: Today was the last day of the ICWG. The format was a mixed team skate relay. Two boys and two girls consisting of kids from all over the world. No city was allowed to have two athletes on the same team. It made for interesting work finding a teammate as many of the athletes don’t speak English and our athletes don’t speak Russian. The event again was a really fun course quite short with lots of ups and downs, rollers, and a slalom. The kids had a great time meeting athletes from all around the world trading souvenirs from Kelowna. Closer to home the kids are also getting to know the Telemark biathlon team better.

Results from all three days of racing

News from afar

January 13, 2016 Posted by Paul

World Junior/U23 Trials in Thunder Bay:

The first race of the WJT is tomorrow with a day of free technique sprints for our athletes! Zone4.ca will be posting results live as they happen, so take a coffee break during the day to check up on how Eliza-Jane, David, and Gareth are doing. It’s currently below -20 C, but is supposed to start warming up a bit by tomorrow. The next important races for our athletes will be Saturday’s interval start classic (oops, they just moved it to Friday instead), followed by Sunday’s Skiathlon (half classic, half skate) race.

International Children’s Winter Games:

Reports from Ross (minor edits helping poor Siri from Paul)-

Pre ski day – Yesterday was the first day of snow this winter in Austria so the Austrians were rejoicing and all the coaches were pulling their hair out has snowed over 4 inches and was the dreaded 0°. Seefeld has been very lucky as they are one of the few places that can actually make snow for cross-country skiing. Yesterday was our first day of training at the venue so the kids got to ski the courses which look exciting involving a spring course with rollovers lot so tight corners and a classic ski course with the slalom downhill. The opening ceremonies were really cool with indoor fireworks and a huge puppet that was lit up.

First race day – Another ridiculous day of coaching nightmare weather. 0 degrees and heavy snow. Only 40′ to test skis. Ended up on rode violet extra with a rode black cover VPS. Hairies iced even with anti icing spray. Grip wax was pretty good for 3 of 4. Sally ended up 12th. Clara 19th. Grayson was 12th. Oliver was 16th. Both categories had over thirty skiers. So a good start. Now I can relax as its getting colder and skate sprints. The kids are having a blast, great fun meeting all the other athletes. Results are on the innsbruck2016.com website.

From Paul –

There’s lots to be proud of this week, both from how last weekend went at our first BC Cup and from our athletes representing our club, province, and country abroad!

Paul

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