I made my 8am start about an hour early. The buses from Pemberton are very irregualar and I have to account for this by giving them about an extra 45 minutes each morning. Our first job was slipping. This was the worst yet since the surace was -10C and bullet proof. Slide slipping this makes your eye balls shake. We did a small amount of B net work around our area and then got ready to watch the ladies race. Race 2 of 10 was about to start. 45 races, 4 Canadians. I've lost my start list but they are Emily Brydon, Britt janyk, ? Simmerling and Shauna Rubens. Alli on our team used to race with Shauna. She told me that Simmerling DNS (did not start) due to all the carnage that was happening. If you missed the race, just check CTV, they have each run in full on their site. Some racers had a really hard time with the track. I was on TV again today, but just as a blue coat. I was stationed just at the bottom of the second last turn. I was sure I saw myself on the CTV website duwing one of the racers!
One of the racers had to be long line lifted off the course. This was directly above where I was wathing the race from. I caught the whole resuce on video. I will get this up onto a video site ASAP.
While we were doing some final clean up after the race at the top of Boyds Bump, the namesake himself showed up to say hi. He is the womens coach and was decending the hill. Willy and the gang all know him personnaly. Kinda neat to run into someone while standing on the jump named for him.
We had diner at the Old Spagetti Factory tonight. Dave our chief kindly took us all out for diner. After that Jeff (my host) and is son Matthew took me to meet Michelle (Jeff's girlfried) at the medals ceremony. My camera battery died during the day, but I was able to get one shot of the Alpine downhill medal winners. After that Our Lady Peace entertained the crowed. The Barenaked Ladies had just played in the village. No shortage of things to do and see.
I'm writting tonight using Jeff's new wireless setup. 6:30am start tomorrow, but should be an easy day. Women will run the Super Combined event. This is a combination time of slalom and downhill. There will probably only be 35 racers since this is a fairly exclusive event combining technical skills with speed. Usually you can only be good at one of these. Should be a fun day.
Go Canada Go
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