{"id":14827,"date":"2014-02-10T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:24:42","slug":"video-sochi-update-hamlin-nails-luge-runs-biathletes-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/02\/10\/video-sochi-update-hamlin-nails-luge-runs-biathletes-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sochi update: Hamlin nails luge runs, biathletes struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great day for Remsen luger Erin Hamlin, but another struggle for North Country biathlon racers. Here&#8217;s a video update:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNG0lEf7Sr4\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Biathlete Tim Burke from Paul Smiths got bottled up in the pack on Sochi&#8217;s nordic track and finished in 22nd position. His final time was 1 minute and 48 seconds behind the leader, Martin Fourcade of France.Burke was the top American in the 12.5k sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in second for the US was Lowell Bailey from Lake Placid, who was 38th overall, with a time 2 minutes and 46 seconds behind the leader. Bailey had three shooting errors to Burke&#8217;s two penalties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14841\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14841\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14841\" alt=\"Remsen luge racer Erin Hamlin. NCPR file photo: Nancie Battaglia\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511-450x300.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/02\/nbErinHamlin-9511.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remsen luge racer Erin Hamlin. NCPR file photo: Nancie Battaglia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both North Country athletes have their next shot on the snow on Thursday in the men&#8217;s individual 20k race.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s luge competition in Sochi today, Remsen luge racer Erin Hamlin broke open two amazing sled runs. She finished the first two runs of the four-run competition with a total time of 1:40.632. She finished the first run in second place, the second run in third place. That means she&#8217;s on track to reach the podium, possibly even snagging gold or silver, if she can maintain the pace tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Racers will take two more runs each tomorrow evening in Sochi to sort out gold, silver and bronze positions. Currently, Hamlin&#8217;s big competition is coming from two German sliders, Natalie Geisenberger, and Tatjana Huefner. She&#8217;ll have to make up .8 seconds to take the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Find all of NCPR&#8217;s reporting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/pages\/the-sochi-winter-olympics\">North Country in Sochi here<\/a>, and find even more on Twitter at #NCPROlympics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great day for Remsen luger Erin Hamlin, but another struggle for North Country biathlon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827"}],"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=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}