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| The First Speedskate Session on Saturday, December, 3rd 2005 |
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Marty Haire, Jonathon White,
and Jim Cornell waiting to
be the first skaters on the
oval this session. |
Jim Cornell,
ready to go. |
Marty Haire
just couldn't wait. |
Jonathon White
starting a two hour
training session. |
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Comining around
the corner. |
Stick together. |
Tim Cross
Head of Ice Maintenance |
Looking across
the oval
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The
night skating has been really nice at the oval in 2004.
Team Dimon Sports skater Andrew Love happy in fast-twitch
sprinterland
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 Opening
day 2004
Blue sky, hard ice, and not too cold! Skaters are smiling
(thanks to Jim Cornell for the photo) |
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 John
Dimon Skating a 3000m
For equipment buffs, in this race from the mid 90's,
John was using a pair of dependable Viking skeeler boots,
and darkstar blades. |
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 Apolo
Ohno Racing in Placid
Just unearthed from the Dimon Sports Photographic archive,
a picture of a 15 year old Apolo Anton Ohno winning
a pack style long track race on the lake placid oval.
He is passing Paul Marchesee, skate maker extrodinare,
and Pat Wentland, who would later become one of Ohno's
Coaches!
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 Bob
Tysen in the 2004 Lake Placid Marathon
Bob Tysen, Peter Doucet, Jeff Bakal, Jim Cornell, and
Carla Langenthal going really fast. |
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 Jane
Lapato in the 2003 Christmas Classic
National Short track age group champion and all around
terrific person Jane Lapato displays great long track
technique, as shown from this picture from the last
lap of a 1500m race (look how far she is ahead of her
pair!) |
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 A
perfect ice day
Perfect, thin, hard ice, a pair of classic vikings
on the feet, and a day warm enough to skate without
a hat! This is Lake Placid heaven, the skater is facing
directly towards the 1980 olympic rink where that famous
game against the Russians was played. |
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 The
Spirit of Marathons
This Picture was taken during a 100k race held the
day after the 2002 Marathon Ice nationals on Lake Morey,
Vt. Many Dutch say that a great day on natural ice is
what skating is truly all about. We have spend a lot
of time on the natural ice of mirror lake here in Lake
Placid, and we just had to include this picture! |
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 The
Warming hut during the Jack Shea Classic
A large group of skilled Canadian skaters from Ontario
and points beyond showed up to contest the Jack Shea
sprint classic. The warming hut was a little crowded,
but a good time was had by all.
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 Night
Skating on the 400m Oval
If you visit Placid, night skating on the oval is not
to be missed, as it can be a beautiful experience, its
usually lightly snowing, and the stadium lighting turns
everything a very pretty shade. |
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