As the\u00a0Opening Ceremonies for the Empire State Winter Games\u00a0grows closer, we are finally going to find out if there will be biathlon races this coming weekend!\u00a0 As of this afternoon it was definite that Mt. VanHovenberg is\u00a0unusable for Nordic or Biathlon races.\u00a0 It appears that all Nordic based races will take place at the Jumps!\u00a0 This all being said, it is\u00a0raining\u00a0again and is warmer than it has been all day!\u00a0 Snow is disappearing as we wait.\u00a0 The final decision is being made Thursday morning at 9 a.m.\u00a0 If I were to take a guess as to the outcome of that meeting, it will be that the races WILL take place.\u00a0 I know that ORDA and Lake Placid desperately want them to happen.\u00a0 The snow, although disappearing, is man made and will last longer than natural snow.\u00a0 In our discussions I have been informed if everything falls into place we will have a 1.6 km loop to run our sprint on Saturday and our race on Sunday, whatever format we make it.\u00a0 The diagram we have received from the VanHo staff shows that there is a penalty area just off of the range area, so we might be able to make that work instead of time penalties.\u00a0 But that won’t be determined until race time, if we race!<\/p>\n
This evening is listed to be the last time to register for the biathlon races.\u00a0 If you are still interested in racing I would still try to enter.\u00a0 Will you get in, who knows, but it is worth a try.\u00a0 I know that the Cross Country registration just stays open until the last minute.\u00a0 So maybe you will get in.\u00a0 I will ask again as to whether people registering on Thursday can still race.<\/p>\n
I will post tomorrow as soon as I hear the results of the morning meeting!\u00a0 Hope we see all of you at the Games on Saturday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the\u00a0Opening Ceremonies for the Empire State Winter Games\u00a0grows closer, we are finally going to find out if there will be biathlon races this coming weekend!\u00a0 As of this afternoon it was definite that Mt. VanHovenberg is\u00a0unusable for Nordic or Biathlon races.\u00a0 It appears that all Nordic based races will take place at the Jumps!\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlon.nyssranordic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}