We’ve tallied roughly a dozen North Country athletes heading to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Nancie Battaglia, the celebrated photographer will be our eyes and ears on the ground out there — and this week we’ll be setting the mood with a series of profiles and previews.<\/p>\n
Here’s my fantasy:<\/p>\n
On this 30th anniversary of the last Lake Placid Winter Games, it would be cool if our tiny part of the United States accounted for a big chunk of America’s medal tally.<\/p>\n
Is it unlikely that a half-dozen of our kids and neighbors will make it to the podium in Vancouver? Maybe. <\/p>\n
But miracles happen up here all the time.<\/p>\n
When I was interviewing Leo Demong about his son Bill’s astonishing run as a Nordic combined skier, he reflected on the fact that Bill, Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke all came out of the same NYSEF class.<\/p>\n
All three are now in the Olympics. As Leo put it, that’s like three kids from the same little league team going to the Majors. <\/p>\n
So maybe we’re too small to have our own full-blown Olympics back in Lake Placid. But I’m hoping we own a big piece of the 2010 games before they’re over.<\/p>\n
Tune in tomorrow morning for Melissa Block’s story from Lake Placid, which first aired last week on All Things Considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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