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Show Serving Summit County since 1880 rft tie If5wv kr r.mk-- - . i it'" 500 . iiHUO Collectorjs Editidn VOL. 122 NO. 6 PARKC www.pai ..vin WedThurs, February 20-2 1 , 2002 a r it .w . u OLYMPIC j CALENDAR Wednesday OLYMPIC COMPETITIONS: Men's and Women's Skeleton Singles at Utah Olympic Park, 9 a.m. to noon; Women's Slalom at Deer Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Men's 4x7.5K Biathlon Relay, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Main Street Olympic celebration: from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Main Street will be filled with street performers, food courts, NBCMSNBCCNBC Olympic coverage on the Coke and GM video boards, the Budweiser Clydesdales, fireworks, and live music on the Main Stage in the Brew Pub parking lot (International Children's Choir at 2 p.m., Foggy MM Boys at 3:15 p.m., Voxology at 4:30 p.m., Wild Honey at 6 p.m., and Detonators at 8 p.m.). World-renowned sculptor Dave McGary will be at the Meyer Gallery, 305 Main St., premiering his newest piece of Chief Washakie throughout the day. James Trosper of Fort Washakie, Wyo., a direct descendent of the chief, will be present. There will also be a special performance by Opening Ceremony Native American flute player Nino-Reyos. For more information, call 649-8160. Alan Schonberger Skis the Stage at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Schonberger is a World Cup champion freestyle skier turned performance artist. Tickets are $25. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 649-9371 or visit www.egyptiantheatrecompany.org. High-flying trampoline show at The Canyons Forum at 3:30 p.m., and fireworks and the Rebirth Brass Band at 7:30 p.m. Picabo Street is scheduled to visit with fans at the Stadium Club, located on the second floor of the Legacy Lodge at Park City Mountain Resort, at 6 p.m. Street will also sign autographs. Admission is free. The Wild West Show at Wasatch High School in Heber is scheduled for 6 p.m. The show features fea-tures trick roping, Native American dancing, and yodcling. Tickets are $25. For more information, call 654-5601. fihns at the Egyptian; fn partnership with tite Park City Film Series, the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street is screening movies throughout the Games. "Rocky Horror Picture Show" shows at midnight. Thursday OLYMPIC COMPETITIONS: Men's Giant Slalom at Park City Mountain Resort, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Men's Nordic Combined K120 Sprint at Utah Olympic Park, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Women's Cross-Country 4x5K Relay at Soldier Hollow, 12:30 to 2 p.m. Main Street Olympic celebration: from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.. Main Street will be filled with street performers, food courts, NBCMSNBCCNBC Olympic coverage on the Coke and GM video boards, the Budweiser Clydesdales, fireworks, and live music on the Main Stage in the Brew Pub parking lot (Foggy MM Boys at 2 p.m., Cyprus School at 3:15 p.m., Gordon Ottley at 4:30 p.m., Kalai at 6 p.m., and Fat Paw at 8 p.m.). Park City historian Hal Compton will give a free slideshow presentation on Park City's mining and skiing history at noon at the Park City Museum, located at 528 Main St., in the basement dungeon. Films at the Egyptian: In partnership with the Park City Film Series, the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street is screening movies throughout the Games. "Silver & Snow" at 2 p.m., "Amelie" at 4 p.m., and "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at midnight. mid-night. Alan Schonberger Skis the Stage at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., at 730 p.m. Schonberger is a World Cup champion freestyle skier turned performance artist. Tickets are $25. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 649-9371 or visit www.egvptiantheatrecompany.org. The Wild West Show at Wasatch High School in Heber is scheduled for 6 p.m. The show features fea-tures trick roping, Native American dancing, and yodeling. Tickets are $25. For more information, call 654-5601. The Canyons hosts an all-star aerial show at 7:30 p.m. Better Than Ezra performs live. 3 SECTIONS 52 PAGES Agendas A-10 Business A -7 Classifieds B-15 Columns A-14 Editorial A-16 Education A-19 Events Calendar B-2 Horoscope A-29 Letters to the Editor A-15 Legals B-19 Movies A-29 Professional Services B-13 Restaurant Guide B-7 Scene & Heard B-9 Sports B-1 TV Listings A-31 Weather B-2 Ecstasy amid, agpny at Deeryiey 3 0- L Joe Pack gets nudged by Czech Ales Yalenta for gold medal By PATRICK CONNORS STEPHEN ZUSYfi4ffl RECORD Silver medalist Joe Pack of Park City is pumped after landing his second jump while teammate Eric Bergoust agonizes after falling out of contention. Bergoust, the pre-event favorite, led the field after the first round but carried too much spied into the second jump and over-rotated. Of the Record staff With a maneuver never before performed at an Olympic Games, Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic nudged Park City's Joe Pack off the top of the podium Tuesday at Deer Valley. Valenta's quintuple-twisting triple flip, a jump he had only attempted on snow 10 times before the Games, propelled him from fifth place after the first round of competition to the top of the leaderboard. However, no shift in the standings was as drastic as that of defending gold medalist Eric Bergoust. A near-perfect quad-twisting triple flip on his first jump had Bergoust in first place going into his second sec-ond attempt. But a crash landing on his second jump resulted in the lowest total score among the 12 qualifiers qual-ifiers Although he didn't win gold, Pack earned the loudest cheers. His name, when announced over the loudspeakers, was almost entirely muted by bells, screams and in-unison "Joe" chants. "Unbelievable," he said about the crowd. "I heard them yelling at the top and it makes it all worth it to be down here. To hear them yell when I landed pushed me back probably ten feet." After his second jump, which he barely stuck. Pack trailed Valenta by six points with Bergoust and eventual bronze medalist Alexei Grichin of Belarus still to come. A slight crisscross in Grichin's skis while in the air and a near-fall on his landing put him less than one point behind Pack. When Grichin's score was announced verifying that Pack had a spot on the podium, the local cheering section near the finish erupted in screams. Bergoust's crash secured the silver medal for Pack. Bergoust said he entered his second jump with too much speed, a mistake that caused him to over rotate and land almost on his back. "I had to go for it on that one and went for it a little too much," he said after the jump. As 14,500 spectators turned their faces toward the scoreboard, Bergoust looked away. He told reporters later that he knew his landing would be off as soon as his skis left the kicker. When he heard that Valenta had landed his quin- Please see Aerials, A-2 Wasatch Cbuntyelebrates Wild West Not wanting to compete with Park City and Salt Lake, Wasatch County offers its own celebration By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Wasatch County, seen as the laid-back Winter Olympic counterpart to rollicking Park City, is OK with that role in the Games, opting to give visitors an Olympic experience steeped in Western tradition. For months, Olympic organizers in Wasatch County have said that they would not try to emulate Park City's Main Street. Instead, Olympic spectators at Soldier Hollow, which is one of the busiest competition venues, are greeted by Wasatch County's take on the West. Billed as the Western Experience, the Ute Native American tribe has a village, as do pioneers. A re-created Pony Express station awaits spectators. Buffaloes and wild horses are also part of the Western Experience. They combine to give visitors the Olympics' most authentic look at the West, argues Bob Mathis, Wasatch County's Olympic coordinator. "People from all over the world have been given a taste of Western America through movies and books and are curious about it," Mathis said. The Olympics are being celebrated in Wasatch County much differently than on Main Street in Park City or in downtown Salt Lake. Both of those spots are largely relying on jumping entertainment and big-name big-name sponsors. Bands play each day in both places and on Park City's Main Street, the Budweiser Clydesdales are cheered by the crowds and the Chevy Hot Zone attracts spectators with its big-screen television broadcasts broad-casts of past Olympic champions. That type of celebration, however, might not work in Wasatch County, Mathis said. ' ' "We're not Park City," he says, continuing an argument argu-ment he has made for months as Wasatch County planned for its Olympic celebration. Olympic revelry is also happening nightly in Heber and Midway, -which is the closest city to Soldier Hollow. Soldier Hollow, located in Wasatch Mountain State r I .Fl STEPHEN ZUSYR4RK RECORD Soldier Hollow in Wasatch County is hosting cross-country skiing, biathlon and Nordic combined com-bined races during the Olympics and many of the events have been sold out. The venue is also offering spectators a taste of the Old West with train and sleigh rides and a Wild West show. Park, is hosting Nordic combined, cross-country skiing ski-ing and biathlon competitions. Four days of events remain at the venue, finishing with the women's 30-kilometer 30-kilometer cross-country race on Sunday, the second to last competition of the Games. "The venue is no more successful than we thought it would be but is more successful than the SLOC people peo-ple we were working with thought it would be," Mathis said. The venue is attracting more than 18,000 people per day, he said. On Sunday, almost 20,000 people were at Soldier Hollow, Mathis said. The Heber Valley has not escaped traffic jams. Mathis said U.S. 40 within 90 minutes of the start time of a Soldier Hollow competition is the worst. Bottlenecks have occurred on roads outside the Olympic park-and-ride lot nearby the Heber airport. "Those could be alleviated by half if people planned and came earlier," Mathis said. The traffic, however, is not as bad as the congestion that the annual Swiss Days celebration brings, he said. Business in the Heber Valley is mixed, Mathis reports, with some of the valley's upscale restaurants doing well. There has been little crime in the county. "People seem to be vigilant and have a good sense of taking care of their business and property," Mathis said. Olympic naysayers haven't changed their tune Critics say there not looking forward to Games 'hangover' By TIM SULLIVAN Of the Record staff The Olympic timeline for some could be characterized charac-terized by the gradual fading of those white and green "This is Not the Place" stickers from Utah bumpers. Years ago, after Salt Lake was awarded the Games, the defiant bumper stickers began to become extinct, overtaken by proud new purple, red and orange icons as the Games became more and more of a reality. But the purveyors of the anti-Olympic message are sticking to their guns. Like many Utahns, they are dancing to the rhythm of the two-week party, but with more of an eye toward the future than most residents. "Anyone will enjoy a good party," said Alexis Kelner, whose Games credential, if it had been given to him, might read 'longtime outspoken critic' crit-ic' However, Kelner added, "I'm also not looking forward to the hangover afterwards. We still don't know if this is going to be financially successful." Stephen Pace, another staunch critic of the Games, is choosing not to participate in the party, instead opting to watch it on TV. "I am participating participat-ing as a taxpayer," Pace quipped. These days, many numbers get tossed around by Utahns, like the medals count, world-record speed skating times and days left until closing ceremonies. But one that many have pushed aside is 1.25, as in $1.25 billion, the cost of the Olympics to taxpayers. "There are so many other places you could have put that money," Kelner said. Kelner, who said he enjoyed the two cross-country skiing events he attended, said experiencing the Games has actually amplified his views. "When you see the lavishness of these things, you can't help but think, 'what a waste.'" Kelner admits that Salt Lake did a good job organizing the Games and is pulling them off well. Please see Olympics, A-2 COPY |