{"id":1618,"date":"2010-02-17T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/17\/tough-day-for-burke-bailey-in-vancouver-biathlon\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:44:00","slug":"tough-day-for-burke-bailey-in-vancouver-biathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/17\/tough-day-for-burke-bailey-in-vancouver-biathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough day for Burke, Bailey in Vancouver biathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a tough day yesterday for North Country biathlon skiers competing in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Placid\u2019s Lowell Bailey finished 36th in the twelve-and-a-half kilometer \u201cpursuit\u201d competition.  Tim Burke from Paul Smiths finished in 47th place.  <\/p>\n<p>Both men will have at least two more chances to reach the podium in the sport, which combines rifle shooting with endurance cross-country skiing.<\/p>\n<p>Burke told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g8GRQ9cKjNcVmAe1kWUjHNdi9Yzw\">AFP news service<\/a> that he expects to fare better in the &#8220;mass start&#8221; competition on February 21st. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Today was just a training day for me. I had nothing really going on, no expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been on the podium in the past and so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll take the podium for the (15 km) mass start race,&#8221; said the 28-year-old New Yorker, who earlier this season became the first American to hit the overall World Cup biathon points leaderboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Tomorrow during the 8 O\u2019clock Hour, we\u2019ll have a special Winter Olympics edition of StoryCorps.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey and Burke will talk with Kris Seymour, from Saranac Lake, one of their early coaches, about what it was like to grow up competing in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a tough day yesterday for North Country biathlon skiers competing in Vancouver. Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}