{"id":1380,"date":"2009-12-07T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/07\/make-that-9-adirondackers-aiming-for-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:57:00","slug":"make-that-9-adirondackers-aiming-for-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/07\/make-that-9-adirondackers-aiming-for-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Make that 9 Adirondackers aiming for Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been tracking North Country athletes vying for a shot at the Vancouver 2010 Winter gold. <\/p>\n<p>One name that slipped our notice (thanks to Mike Lynch at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise for the nudge) is Erin Hamlin.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the 23-year-old lives just outside the Park in Remsen, NY, but she&#8217;s trained and competed for much of her career in Lake Placid. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Hamlin locked in her position on the US Olympic team.  This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/features\/x1682953402\/Hamlin-clinches-Olympic-luge-spot\">the AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hamlin, of Remsen, finished fifth in a World Cup race in Germany on Sunday, officially locking up her second trip to the Olympics by meeting one of USA Luge&#8217;s selection criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the U.S. team for the Vancouver Games will be unveiled Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve tallied eight other North Country athletes who have a shot at competing in Canada this winter.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our list:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>-Haley Johnson (Lake Placid, age 28) Biathlon<\/p>\n<p>-Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, age 28) Biathlon<\/p>\n<p>-Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, age 27) Biathlon<\/p>\n<p>-Bill Demong (Vermontville, age 29) Nordic combined<\/p>\n<p>-Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, age 23) Alpine skiing<\/p>\n<p>-John Napier (Lake Placid, age 23) Bobsled<\/p>\n<p>-Chris Mazdzer (Saranac Lake, age 21) Luge<\/p>\n<p>-Erin Hamlin (Remsen, age 23) Luge<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>-Trevor Marsicano (Lake Placid, age 20) Speed skating<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If anyone thinks of someone we&#8217;ve missed, let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been tracking North Country athletes vying for a shot at the Vancouver 2010 Winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}