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Article: Fort Kent adjusts to possible Cup loss Decision on biathlon event pending
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 17, 2008
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Ever since the town of Fort Kent staged a World Cup biathlon
event back in 2004, local organizers have been looking ahead, and
eagerly awaiting another World Cup event.
According to the International Biathlon Union's plan, that second
World Cup was to take place in 2009.
And now, it may not.
Recently the IBU announced that it planned to revert to a nine-
event World Cup schedule, dropping one event from the present
schedule.
And according to Fort Kent organizers, that meant the eighth stop
on next year's circuit - their own event scheduled for March 12-15,
2009 - was in danger of being scrapped.
That decision won't be made until late May, after a meeting
between the IBU and the European ...