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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 5-8, 2009 The Park Record B-4 Local to appear in 'SupergirF jam England), and seven-time XGames gold medalist Fabiola da Silva (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The Supergirl Jam street skateboarding competition will also be held on Sept. 6 in Venice Beach. Pro skateboard street competitors include 2008 X-Games Champion Elissa Steamer (Ft. Myers, Fla.), Amy Caron (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Vanessa Torres (Orange County, Calif.), Lyn-z Adams Hawkins (Cardiff-bythe-sea, Calif.), Lacey Baker (Covina, Calif.), and Supergirl Pro-Am Jam gold medalist Leticia Bufoni (Sao 'Paulo, Brazil). Abby Zsarnay (Santa Paula, Calif.) will also compete in the event, having placed as the top amateur in the Supergirl Pro-Am Jam held on Aug. 19 at Woodward West All of the day's competitive action, and, event highlights from the Supergirl Pro Junior and. Supergirl Pro-Am Jam, will be streamed iive on GO211.com and TheWB.com, the official online destination for the 2009 Supergirl Jam events and competitions. Programming will be televised this fall on networks to include CBS Sports, FUEL TV and Fox Sports Net. For more information about the 2009 Supergirl Jam, please visit SupergirlJam.com. groups of 12 riders will compete in the preliminary round, with the top 12 advancing to a final round. The 12 finalists will compete for the prize purse as well as. best trick bragging rights - which comes with a $1,000 bonus. Blackley, 20, has been riding since she was 9 years old. As a youngster she tried out . her father's Burton Performer board in her backyard, and rented her first board the day that Park City Mountain Resort open'ed to snowboarders. She will be competing against an international field of elite snowboarders including Laurie Currier of Incline Village, Calif., the 2008 Supergirl Jam snowboard rail jam champion, 2007 X Games medalist Chanelle Sladics of Newport Beach, Calif., and the youngest snowboard rail jam competitor, 14-year-old Indigo Monk of Manhattan Beach, Calif. The Supergirl Jam will also feature eight of the world's best inline skaters competing in a best trick contest. The lineup includes 2008 Supergirl Jam Inline Rail Jam champion Chynna Weierstall (Roseville, Mich.), 2008 Action Sports World Championships Inline Skate Street gold medalist Jenna Downing (Barnsley, Madison Blackley joins other top female actionsports athletes in Venice Beach Lt)S ANGELES - On Sept. 6, Park City's Madison Blackley will join other top female action-sports athletes in snowboarding, inline skating and skateboarding in Venice Beach, Calif., for the final stop in the 2009 Supergirl Jam event series. The Supergirl Jam is the action-sports industry's only large-scale all-girls competition and lifestyle festival designed to promote female empowerment, strength, independence and leadership. The top athletes in skateboarding, snowboarding and inline will be competing for their share of the $36,000 total prize purse and the Supergirl Jam title in their respective sports. The snowboard rail jam competition will take place on a 35-foot high snowboard mountain that will be created next to the beach with 80.000 pounds of freshly made snow. Blackley will be among two Ski jumpers file arguments of Davis LLP, explained. "But it is for the court to see that the hosting of the games, and in particular the ski jumping events, complies with the charter." Clark said the -women ski jumpers' appeal is based on key errors in judgment at the BC Supreme Court.. "The lower court judge found VANOC is carrying out a governmental activity in hosting the Olympics; that the hosting of ski jumping events for the Games is a benefit of the law; that VANOC is hosting ski jumping for men but not for women and this means VANCOUVER, BC Pointing out it is the court's duty to make sure the hosting of the 2010 Olympic Games complies with the charter or declare it invalid if it does not, lawyers for the 14 elite women • ski jumpers battling for inclusion in the 2010 Olympics have filed their arguments with the BC Court of Appeal. "We are not asking the court to determine which sports are to be included in the Olympics - that is not its role, nor is it VANOC's (the Vancouver Olympic Committee's)," Ross Clark, Q.C., a partner at the Vancouver office the women are being discriminated against," he said. "We absolutely agree on those points. But she failed to understand our position and the relief sought. She considered whether the court could order VANOC to host an Olympic ski jumping event for women and proceeded from there. "This was critically wrong. We acknowledge VANOC doesn't have the authority todo that without direction from the IOC," Clark pointed out. On Nov. 12 and 13, a threejudge panel will hear the appeal arguments in the Vancouver Law Courts. You Can't Go Wrong With a Honda The Flying Aces will wrap up their summer season this Saturday at the Utah Olympic Park GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD UOP ends summer season This weekend marks the end of the summer schedule for many public activities at the Utah Olympic Park. Sundays only, L0 a.m. to 6 p.m. Comet bobsled will be open Saturdays and Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Flying Ace All-Stars The Flying Ace All-Stars will hold their final freestyle show of the summer season on Saturday, Sept. 5. Showtime is at 1 p.m. During the summer. ( Olympians and national-team athletes put on a 25-minute freestyle aerial show with music for spectators every Saturday. Skiers and snowboarders soar up to 60 feet in«the air and perform acrobatic feats before landing in our 750,000 gallon splash pool. General admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and youth. Reservations are not required. For more information, call 435.658.4200 Xtreme Zipline . The Utah Olympic Park claims the world's steepest Zipline. Fly down the Xtreme Zip at 50 miles per hour along the K 120 ski jumping hill. Experience the sensation of ski jumping as you zip down a cable in a harness to the base of the ski jumps. Xtreme Zip riders must weigh between 100 and 275 pounds. Pricing is $20 for the first ride, $10 for the second ride September schedule Beginning Monday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 27, Xtreme zipline, Ultra zipline, and Quicksilver alpine slide will be open Saturdays and ine slide is the first of its kind in North America. It is a state-of-the-art steel track and will allow riders to weave down a narrow course that concludes at the base of the K-64 ski jump. For adults, tickets are $15 for- the first ride, $7 for the second ride. For an adult with child (ages 3-7), first-ride tickets are $20. Comet bobsled rides A trained pilot will take you and two other passengers through 15 curves, reaching speeds up to 70 mph, and pulling close to 4 G's of force down thcOlympic track in a four-person bobsled. The Ultra Zipline A shorter version of the Comet bobsled ride is not for Xtreme zipline, the Ultra the faint of heart. Billed as starts nea,r the top of the the most intense minute of UOP freestyle skiing hill, your life, this ride will give adjacent to the K120 nordic you a very good idea of what ski jumping hill. Ultra Zip Olympic bobsled athletes riders must weigh between 50 experience day in and day and 275 pounds. Pricing is $15 out. for the first ride, $7 for the Comet passengers must be second ride. at least 14 years old and in good health. Pricing is $60 for the first ride, $30 for the The Quicksilver alpine slide This European-style alp- second ride. 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