Mark Arendz setting bar high in standing category, Salmon Arm's Natalie Wilkie also posts two podium finishes this week at Otway Nordic Centre
Although the host country has just four athletes participating in the four days of competition this week at Otway Nordic Centre, the Canadian team has performed exceptionally well, with three gold medals and two bronze.
“He was three-for-three in biathlon . He had surgery to have bone spurs shaved off his heels a year and a half ago and wasn’t able to classic ski all of last year. But he came back for his first classic race in the World Cup season-opener and won it. It’s a big relief for all of us to see his recovery has come full-circle and we’re seeing the benefits now.”
Like Arendz, they’ve already posted podium finishes at World Cups this season, as has sit-skier Derek Zaplotinsky of Smoky Lake, Alta. He was fourth on Wednesday and ninth on Thursday, coming off two bronze medals in cross-country in Toblach, Italy in late January.“We travel a lot and we’re used to being on the road and it’s so rare to be able to compete at home, said McKeever. “We’ve got a couple B.C. originals here.
“Looking at the webcams in P.G. a month ago it was a little thin, but at least Morther Nature’s cooperating now. The Caledonia club and the organizers have done a fantastic on here. We always know the event will go off really well. We have fresh snow and artificial snow and the course is in amazing shape.”
“We have the percentage system that makes the adjustments for that so we have a fair race, but it’s still based on having reasonably good conditions for everybody that makes it a fair race.”
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