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Gold! World Jr Biathlon
Gold for Canadian Junior National Team!
At the World Junior Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne, France on Tuesday, 27, Jan, 2004 in the 7.5km sprint race Jean-Philippe Le Guellec won the Gold medal! This is really a great result! :-) LeGuellec had a really good race the with the 12.5km Individual on Sunday where he placed fourth. One more target hit and he would have had the Gold there too. Very close and exciting. I think this is the best result at W.Jr's for Canada since Myriam Bedard was a Junior. Perhaps even N.A.? more info: http://www.cbc.ca/pcgi-bin/templates...biathlon040127 and at http://www.biathloncanada.ca Rodney |
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Gold! World Jr Biathlon
"Rodney/SkiWax.ca" wrote in message
... Gold for Canadian Junior National Team! At the World Junior Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne, France on Tuesday, 27, Jan, 2004 in the 7.5km sprint race Jean-Philippe Le Guellec won the Gold medal! Great results! Especially considering the adverse conditions he and all other canadian biathletes have to endure. There was an interesting article last year on the canadian biathlon website: "Canadian biathletes are currently struggling with significant funding cuts from the COC. Due to Biathlon Canada's lack of recent international success, the COC has already cut its support by 50 percent for the current quadrennial ending in 2004 to about $135,000. Another 50 percent cut is expected in the next quadrennial leading up to the 2010 Winter Games which may well take place in Canada". "To make matters worse, the Canadian Sport Centre - Calgary, which also receives funding support by both the COC and Sport Canada, has recently cut off all support (coaching, sport medicine and sport science) to members of the national biathlon team and CODA has reduced it's support to the same athletes by 60 percent". I wonder if the selection of Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Games and these results will change anything? JMC full article: http://www.biathloncanada.ca/2003/Ann/RisingStar.htm |
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Gold! World Jr Biathlon
I hope Vancouver 2010 will help.
The Olympic gold medals that Myriam Bedard won expire this year (from what I understand) for the additional points they provide in the funding formula. Six years from now LeGuellec should be in great form for Vancouver. Rodney JMC wrote: "Rodney/SkiWax.ca" wrote in message ... Gold for Canadian Junior National Team! At the World Junior Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne, France on Tuesday, 27, Jan, 2004 in the 7.5km sprint race Jean-Philippe Le Guellec won the Gold medal! Great results! Especially considering the adverse conditions he and all other canadian biathletes have to endure. There was an interesting article last year on the canadian biathlon website: "Canadian biathletes are currently struggling with significant funding cuts from the COC. Due to Biathlon Canada's lack of recent international success, the COC has already cut its support by 50 percent for the current quadrennial ending in 2004 to about $135,000. Another 50 percent cut is expected in the next quadrennial leading up to the 2010 Winter Games which may well take place in Canada". "To make matters worse, the Canadian Sport Centre - Calgary, which also receives funding support by both the COC and Sport Canada, has recently cut off all support (coaching, sport medicine and sport science) to members of the national biathlon team and CODA has reduced it's support to the same athletes by 60 percent". I wonder if the selection of Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Games and these results will change anything? JMC full article: http://www.biathloncanada.ca/2003/Ann/RisingStar.htm |
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