{"id":14862,"date":"2014-02-15T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=14862"},"modified":"2014-02-17T05:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T10:06:49","slug":"sochi-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-north-countrys-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/02\/15\/sochi-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-north-countrys-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sochi: What you need to know about the North Country’s athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coach Mark Grimmette greets Erin Hamlin after her bronze-winning luge run. Photo: Nancie Battaglia<\/p><\/div>\n

The huge North Country story lines at the end of Week 1 in Sochi look something like this.\u00a0 We have two medals so far, a silver and a bronze!<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Andrew Weibrecht from Lake Placid knows when to go.<\/strong>\u00a0 Early this morning on the Super G course, he nailed a near-perfect run, adding silver to his 2010 bronze Olympic medal.\u00a0 Four years after his bronze medal win in Vancouver, he rediscovered that magic.<\/p>\n

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NCPR file photo Andrew Weibrecht in Sochi. Nancie Battaglia<\/p><\/div>\n

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2.\u00a0 Erin Hamlin is a star<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Remsen luge racer, who lives much of the year now in Lake Placid, scored a bronze medal in women’s single races.\u00a0 In a year when the US is suffering a medals drought, Hamlin’s break-out win is (deservedly) grabbing a lot of media attention.\u00a0\u00a0 She’s the big North Country story from Sochi so far.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Lowell Bailey gets the come-back award for these games.
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Lowell Bailey cracks the top-10 in Sochi. Photo: Nancie Battagliagames<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Two devastatingly tough races, a long day of painful soul-searching, and the Lake Placid biathlon veteran springs back and notches the best-ever finish for an American — 8th place — in the Olympics.\u00a0 That’s mental toughness.\u00a0 He has two more big races ahead and a lot of momentum.<\/p>\n

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Bill Demong enters week 2 as one of the North Country’s medal hopefuls. Photo: Nancie Battaglia<\/p><\/div>\n

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4.\u00a0 Bill Demong from Vermontville enters week 2 with his powder dry<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Nordic combined gold medalist didn’t contend in his first race, but he sounded incredibly calm and confident that he was positioned well for races still to come.\u00a0 If he can grab a decent jump, and position himself solidly for the x-country race, there’s a real chance for more metal here.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of other players from the North Country — Tim Burke, Annelies Cook, Jusin Olsen — who could grab headlines next week as competition continues.\u00a0 But so far, those are the takeaways from Sochi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot more on our Sochi page<\/a> at ncpr.org or catch up with the latest on our twitter feed #ncprolympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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