One of the ice sculptures on site. This one is near the stadium. I haven't seen the others yet because we haven't taken a walk along the spectator route but apparently one of them is a tremendous totem pole.
Training day (Sunday) - It was catch the biathletes day. They are using our course to train on but they aren't supposed to so we have to get them off the course. They aren't very happy with us. Reasonably quiet day, skeleton crew. I was at 34 during training then moved to another location at course closing to make sure everyone was off the course so that the groomers could get to work. Richard had a busier day at position 2 - people coming from all directions. More bib checking required - access to the "Field of Play" (FOP) is limited to those with valid bibs. Big kurfluffle today when a Russian big shot didn't like being told he had to leave the FOP and our marshals didn't back down. When a rather large police officer showed up, he backed off and went to get the appropriate bib but complained loudly. Unfortunately, representatives of certain countries don't appear to take direction well from Canadian females. This isn't the first instance we've had. We have heard that bibs ARE being withdrawn for infractions so perhaps word will get around.
Today was another great day for Canadian XC skiing. No medals but we were SO close in the men's race. Devon and Alex finished 4th (and were leading at one point). Sara and Dasha were 7th but apparently had not been expected to advance to the final so hurray for all four of them!
It was amazing in the men's race how close the 10 teams were throughout the final. Even the fellow who fell caught up with the pack.
We had another glorious weather day but that appears to be it for a few days - we are expecting precipitation and colder temperatures. We've been basking in +12C but will be facing +3C tomorrow. In the shade it has still been cool but once the sun gets over the trees, we are all removing layers. Might not be able to do that tomorrow! We are off tomorrow. Richard will be catching up on some office work again and I'll find something to do. We'll both sleep in a bit, I'm sure! I brought a disposable camera in for developing so I'll pick those photos up tomorrow. (I decided not to bring my camera but regretted it so picked up a couple of disposables.)
So...other than the photos and another satisfactory result in XC, there isn't much to report. We do have some more photos to download so I'll do those tomorrow as well. Stay tuned!
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