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Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘Very chaotic': Local health officials in ‘turmoil' after $117M in funding cuts
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Local public health authorities are still figuring out the next steps in the wake of federal health cuts from the Department of Health and Human Services. in COVID-era grants and funding are set to go away. But these are grants that departments were expecting to have for at least another year, and they were practically given no notice. The Oregon Health Authority has already warned the 988 Crisis Line and some immunization grants could be impacted. Sarah Lochner, the executive director of the Coalition of Local Health Officials said the lack of notice and details have been extra challenging. 'It has thrown everyone into turmoil just trying to figure out one, scrambling for the funds, scrambling to understand the impacts, and then the next step is, 'What do we do now?'' she said. 'So, it's been very chaotic and a roller coaster of emotions for sure.' Lochner said it is high stakes and feels like they have been thrown into a tornado. And counties and public health departments are in a punch because they are losing money they were still supposed to have. Wyden, Merkley urge Trump to rescind 'anti-voter' election executive order 'They either have to scramble to find the money in a cut budget cycle, to keep these positions whole and to keep doing the work, or they have to discontinue the work and potentially lay people off or cut people's hours,' she said. Lochner said a lot of the work public health departments do is invisible to the average person. But the cuts can have an impact on people's lives one way or another. 'What you are going to see is your kids perhaps getting more cases of the flu or, you know, coming home from school sick more often,' she said. And it's really not what they won't see, it's the impacts that they will feel and they won't really necessarily understand that they are.' As for what is next, public health departments do not even have all the answers yet. 'We're still sorting through the impacts of these cuts, to be honest, because the directives that came down from the federal government were very confusing and really unclear,' Lochner said. 'So every county is sort of sorting through what this means for them. And I am collecting that information.' Lochner said CLHO is hoping the Oregon legislature will be even more compelled to invest in public health. She also encourages anyone who is concerned about what the cuts could mean for them to reach out to their state lawmakers and ask for increased public health funding. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBC
14-03-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Friedrich leads 4-man world bobsleigh title race as weather takes its toll on Lake Placid track
Germany's Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsleigh title. And that was about the only predictable development in the four-man world championship race that started Friday at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The second heat of the four-heat race was cancelled — after it had been run in its entirety — Friday because of track conditions getting worse as the air temperature climbed quickly, the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said. That decision came after Germany's Johannes Lochner had one of the runners attached to his sled damaged by sliding through bare spots on the track. He also had damage to the front of his sled from something that happened as he jumped in at the start, which wouldn't have been caused by any track condition issue. Germany successfully appealed and Lochner could have taken his second run again, but the jury decided that warmer air wouldn't have led to that re-run having a fair result. So, the entire heat was cancelled. "The competition will resume (Saturday) as planned with heats 3 and 4," the IBSF said. Weather-permitting, that is. It was about -4 C when racing started Friday and climbed to about 8 C when the four-man event was done for the morning. And the weather forecast for Saturday calls for even warmer air. Friedrich — a 15-time world champion, with nine two-man golds and four two-man golds on his resume along with two more Olympic golds in both disciplines — was going to be the leader anyway. His one-run time is 54.23 seconds, with Lochner (54.52) second and Britain's Brad Hall (54.54) third. Had the second run counted, Hall would have been second, with Germany's Adam Ammour third, Frank Del Duca of the U.S. fourth, Kris Horn of the U.S. in fifth and Lochner in sixth. Instead, it's officially Friedrich, Lochner and Hall in the top three spots, followed by Ammour, Del Duca and then Horn and South Korea's Jinsu Kim tied for sixth. "We've prepared. We're ready. It's just time to make consistent runs," Del Duca said. The four-man race is scheduled to resume at 8 a.m. Saturday, followed by the final two runs of women's bobsleigh in the early afternoon. Women's bobsleigh The leader board after Day 1 of the two-woman bobsleigh championship looks like this: Germany, Germany, Germany, United States, United States, United States. Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi finished their two runs in 1 minute, 52.77 seconds, good enough for a lead of 0.23 seconds over Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig. Lisa Buckwitz and Kira Lipperheide capped off the German grip on the top three spots Friday, finishing another two-tenths of a second off the lead. WATCH | Canada's Lotholz, Walkeden sit 9th in 2-woman bobsleigh at worlds: Canada's Lotholz, Walkeden sit 9th in 2-woman bobsleigh at worlds 45 minutes ago Duration 3:20 Germany is looking to sweep the two-woman medals at the world championships for the second straight year. A year ago, Buckwitz drove to the win, with Nolte second and Kalicki third. World monobob champion Kaysha Love led the American contingent on Day 1, after she and Jazmine Jones were fourth in 1:53.53. Kaillie Humphries and Emily Renna are fifth for the U.S., with Elana Meyers Taylor and Lolo Jones sixth.
Fox Sports
14-03-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Friedrich wins 9th 2-man world bobsled title, leading another German sweep. Del Duca 4th for US
Associated Press LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The greatest ever just keeps getting better. Francesco Friedrich is a world champion again, winning the two-man race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sunday in a down-to-the-wire finish — holding off German teammate Johannes Lochner by the razor-slim margin of 0.03 seconds over four runs encompassing about 4 miles of ice. 'It was a tough battle,' Friedrich said. 'We said it would be.' It's the ninth two-man world championship of Friedrich's career and extended his record total to 15 world titles overall, when adding in his six crowns in four-man. He'll look to add another four-man title when worlds conclude in Lake Placid next week. That total doesn't even take into account his four Olympic gold medals — two-man and four-man sweeps at the 2018 and 2022 Games. When it comes to the biggest races, nobody has won more than Friedrich. Not even close. And for this title, he had to make up some ground in the final turns. 'Having the motivation to win every race is no problem for me,' Friedrich said. Friedrich and Alexander Schüller finished their four runs over two days in 3 minutes, 39.32 seconds. Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer finished in 3:39.35, and Adam Ammour and Benedikt Hertel finished the German medal sweep in 3:40.15. It's the fourth time in the last five years that Germany has swept the medals in the season's biggest two-man race, this one being added to the sweeps at worlds in 2021, the 2022 Beijing Olympics and last year's world championships. Frank Del Duca and Charlie Volker were fourth for the U.S. in 3:40.38, missing a medal by less than a quarter-second. And after it was over, Del Duca tipped his cap to Friedrich's continued dominance. 'He knows how to communicate with a sled," Del Duca said. 'He knows when he needs to steer a little more. He knows when to just let it run. And sometimes he's flat-out flawless. He just knows how to get speed out of the sled. And he and the guys around him are incredible athletes. They always find a way to get it done.' Friedrich was first down the mountain Sunday and set the tone by completing Run 3 in 54.60 seconds, a track record — shaving 0.01 seconds off the mark that Pierre Lueders of Canada set 22 years ago. And Friedrich held the record for about two minutes. Lochner got down in 54.52 seconds, cutting Friedrich's overall lead going into the final heat to 0.06 seconds. The start order is reversed for the final run so Lochner went next-to-last, one sled before Friedrich, and finished in 54.94 seconds. That meant Friedrich needed a 55.00 to tie; he crossed the line in 54.97. Lochner's split times in the final run put him ahead of Friedrich with about three turns left, before Friedrich made up the deficit in the final 100 meters or so of the track. Friedrich got five wins in the World Cup season and Lochner won four times. There are only eight races — the German stars actually tied for the win in one of those events, and through 20 competitive two-man runs this season Friedrich's two-man sled finished a mere 1.13 seconds faster than Lochner's. They were close all season, and close again in the season's two-man finale. 'It was an amazing race,' Lochner said. ___ AP Olympics: in this topic
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Friedrich leads 4-man world bobsled title race as weather takes its toll on Lake Placid track
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Germany's Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsled title. And that was about the only predictable development in the four-man world championship race that started Friday at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The second heat of the four-heat race was canceled — after it had been run in its entirety — Friday because of track conditions getting worse as the air temperature climbed quickly, the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said. That decision came after Germany's Johannes Lochner had one of the runners attached to his sled damaged by sliding through bare spots on the track. He also had damage to the front of his sled from something that happened as he jumped in at the start, which wouldn't have been caused by any track condition issue. 'The jury at the IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships Lake Placid 2025 decided to cancel heat 2 of today's 4-man-bobsleigh competition due to track conditions,' the IBSF said. 'The race will be continued with two heats (Saturday) as scheduled.' Weather-permitting, that is. It was about 25 degrees Fahrenheit (-4 degrees Celsius) when racing started Friday and climbed to about 48 degrees (8 degrees Celsius) when the four-man event was done for the morning. The track, which has an artificial refrigeration system, was disintegrating quickly — and that was with the two-woman race set to begin in the afternoon. And the weather forecast for Saturday calls for even warmer air. Friedrich — a 15-time world champion, with nine two-man golds and four two-man golds on his resume along with two more Olympic golds in both disciplines — was going to be the leader anyway. His one-run time is 54.23 seconds, with Lochner (54.52) second and Britain's Brad Hall (54.54) third. Had the second run counted, Hall would have been second, with Germany's Adam Ammour third, Frank Del Duca of the U.S. fourth, Kris Horn of the U.S. in fifth and Lochner in sixth. Instead, it's officially Friedrich, Lochner and Hall in the top three spots, followed by Ammour, Del Duca and then Horn and South Korea's Jinsu Kim tied for sixth. The two-woman race was to start later Friday and conclude Saturday afternoon. The four-man race is scheduled to resume at 8 a.m. Saturday. ___ AP sports:
Associated Press
14-03-2025
- Climate
- Associated Press
Friedrich leads 4-man world bobsled title race as weather takes its toll on Lake Placid track
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Germany's Francesco Friedrich is well on his way to another world bobsled title. And that was about the only predictable development in the four-man world championship race that started Friday at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The second heat of the four-heat race was canceled — after it had been run in its entirety — Friday because of track conditions getting worse as the air temperature climbed quickly, the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said. That decision came after Germany's Johannes Lochner had one of the runners attached to his sled damaged by sliding through bare spots on the track. He also had damage to the front of his sled from something that happened as he jumped in at the start, which wouldn't have been caused by any track condition issue. 'The jury at the IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships Lake Placid 2025 decided to cancel heat 2 of today's 4-man-bobsleigh competition due to track conditions,' the IBSF said. 'The race will be continued with two heats (Saturday) as scheduled.' Weather-permitting, that is. It was about 25 degrees Fahrenheit (-4 degrees Celsius) when racing started Friday and climbed to about 48 degrees (8 degrees Celsius) when the four-man event was done for the morning. The track, which has an artificial refrigeration system, was disintegrating quickly — and that was with the two-woman race set to begin in the afternoon. And the weather forecast for Saturday calls for even warmer air. Friedrich — a 15-time world champion, with nine two-man golds and four two-man golds on his resume along with two more Olympic golds in both disciplines — was going to be the leader anyway. His one-run time is 54.23 seconds, with Lochner (54.52) second and Britain's Brad Hall (54.54) third. Had the second run counted, Hall would have been second, with Germany's Adam Ammour third, Frank Del Duca of the U.S. fourth, Kris Horn of the U.S. in fifth and Lochner in sixth. Instead, it's officially Friedrich, Lochner and Hall in the top three spots, followed by Ammour, Del Duca and then Horn and South Korea's Jinsu Kim tied for sixth. The two-woman race was to start later Friday and conclude Saturday afternoon. The four-man race is scheduled to resume at 8 a.m. Saturday. ___
