Jeongseon - on hill report

Several Sled Dogs are already on site preparing the courses for the upcoming events.

This part of the effort isn't very Olympic - it is the pre-event hard work to prepare the piste that goes on with all World Cup events. Something like our Build Week at Lake Louise.

 

It was described to me by Sled Dog, Bruce Boulding, who is volunteering at the downhill venue (Jeongseon), as :

 

Up, bus, eat, work, eat, work, bus, eat, sleep. The work is going well. Course coming together.  The downhill training pitch has been watered top to bottom. The race course used the last couple of days by the Korean team.  Water programs scheduled for the next few days.  The air fences going in now that a lot of the TV towers are in place and the A Nets are getting wrapped.

It has been cold, but it continues to be beautiful.

 

The North American team at Jeongseon is small.  Me and Sam Harvey from the Sled Dogs and Kylie Dingman, an American who was here with us last year.  In a couple of days, Andre Labine joins us as do a father daughter team from the US.  That is it.   The rest are Korean and Russian.

 

All in all, things going well.  Looking forward to it going into games mode.

 

As you know, Jeongseon is pretty isolated from everything else and the Jeongseon volunteers are being housed southeast of Jeongseon at a nice place but it is remote from even basic restaurants.

 

These crews have the unheralded jobs that make it all work when the Olympic banners go up and they light up the cameras for the world to see in 2 weeks time.

 

B.