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Maybe this was covered when I was away traveling.....
http://www.omahasports.org/archives/category/events/u-s-figure-skating-championships
This is a story about Bob Dulop, USFSA Events guy, visiting Omaha. What do you think about having both nationals at the same event center at the same time? Anyone from Omaha please chime in about restaurants and facilities near this mega complex of the Hilton and arena?
"Dunlop spent the past two days in Omaha, laying the groundwork for the event that will come to the city from Jan. 19 through 27, 2013. He met with officials from the Omaha Sports Commission, which helped land the championships.
He toured Century Link Center, where about 250 of the country’s elite skaters will compete for spots on the U.S. national championship team, and the adjacent Hilton Hotel, where many of them will stay.
That set-up — the hotel is connected to the arena by an enclosed skybridge — will be particularly appealing, Dunlop said.
“I would argue that it will be one of the best layouts in terms of what the starting point looks like,” Dunlop said. “There’s a lot of tweaking here and there to make the full plan of the event run but it really is one of the best layouts.
“The ability to have the hotel connected to both rinks makes weather a non-issue.”
Dunlop said the size of Omaha’s arena and convention center will allow U.S. Figure Skating to expand the championships to include its youngest competitors in the juvenile and intermediate groups. The older skaters will compete in the arena, with two additional sheets of ice in the convention center — one for practice and the other for the younger skaters’ competitions.“We’ll have a bigger contingent coming in ’13 than we’ve ever had,” he said. “It’s good for us to bring them all to one city and it will add to the impact of the event, as the younger group will come with families.”
http://www.omahasports.org/archives/category/events/u-s-figure-skating-championships
This is a story about Bob Dulop, USFSA Events guy, visiting Omaha. What do you think about having both nationals at the same event center at the same time? Anyone from Omaha please chime in about restaurants and facilities near this mega complex of the Hilton and arena?
"Dunlop spent the past two days in Omaha, laying the groundwork for the event that will come to the city from Jan. 19 through 27, 2013. He met with officials from the Omaha Sports Commission, which helped land the championships.
He toured Century Link Center, where about 250 of the country’s elite skaters will compete for spots on the U.S. national championship team, and the adjacent Hilton Hotel, where many of them will stay.
That set-up — the hotel is connected to the arena by an enclosed skybridge — will be particularly appealing, Dunlop said.
“I would argue that it will be one of the best layouts in terms of what the starting point looks like,” Dunlop said. “There’s a lot of tweaking here and there to make the full plan of the event run but it really is one of the best layouts.
“The ability to have the hotel connected to both rinks makes weather a non-issue.”
Dunlop said the size of Omaha’s arena and convention center will allow U.S. Figure Skating to expand the championships to include its youngest competitors in the juvenile and intermediate groups. The older skaters will compete in the arena, with two additional sheets of ice in the convention center — one for practice and the other for the younger skaters’ competitions.“We’ll have a bigger contingent coming in ’13 than we’ve ever had,” he said. “It’s good for us to bring them all to one city and it will add to the impact of the event, as the younger group will come with families.”
