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Show WedThurcFri, July 28-30, R&cess 'didn't come Continued from B-1 said Lindley. The top three 50-mile finishers were Jack Dainton of Park City (5:43), Darren Marshall of Salt Lake City (5:51), and Tim Sewell of Grand Junction, Colorado (5:53). The 100-kilometer (or Euro-century) frontrunners were Mark Seltenrich of Park City (7:57), Lyn Damato-Franklin of Denver, Colorado (8:50), and Robert Walsh of Park City (9:06). Third place in the team relays went to Team Snert. Event Promoter and Organizer Boris Lyubner touted the race as "a huge success, especially for its first year." 'Bart Gillespie is a well-known local racer, and he set a new bench- entrants. Perhaps you should ..... . 0 ... . ... , GRYSON westpw record mark with his strong finish. I'm begin training now Matt Milton of California, right stops to chat with Event Promoter Boris Lyubner during the century race. Thin air and tailwind put best to the test Continued from B-1 "We ihou1 that the Europeans I ; '. . , , , were going to struggle a lot more I - A jmk- air meant less air pressure beneath ti,a ,L a Kt tl, cWi, n air meant less air pressure beneath tne ladies v-positioned skis, worsened wors-ened by gusty summer tailwinds that push the skier downward, giving the sensation of falling out of the sky rather than floating through it, said Lindsey Van of Park City. Even so, being among the best in the world means being the best under any conditions. "I think, personally, that a tail-wind tail-wind or no wind at all makes the competition more fair for everybody because then the best will win," said second-place Sagen. The jumpers shuffled the deck further when Park City resident Jessica Jerome, a wild card after having hav-ing not jumped during Fridays competition, com-petition, placed third on Saturday, one spot above favorite Lindsey Van, seeded second in the world coming into the weekend and hoping for a first-place finish. Van finished in fifth place on Friday. Jerome was pleased with her performance per-formance after crashing on both of Thursday's jumps on the K64 hill and missing out on Friday's competition. "I was really nervous today. I had to pull over on the drive up here because I was so nauseous," said an under-the-weather Jerome. "I kept thinking about all of the disadvantages disadvan-tages working against me, but then I thought to myself, 'this is my home hill, where I jump six days a week. I just need to go out there and do what I normally do.'". That she did. Jerome launched 90.591.5 meter jumps during Saturday's event, giving ner a combined com-bined score of 223.0 total points, just below Sagen's 224.5-point, second place-total w H-tj f to r .. "'r.o'- "-, NOTHING WE NEED I 1 t&mrMi 1 2004 sure that next year there will be more and more racers who want to challenge his time," he said. According to Lyubner, the feedback feed-back section of the ElOO's homepage home-page is already saturated with thank-yous and positive reactions. "All of the racers are already . saying how tough it was and how much they enjoyed it. Whether they came in first or last, finishing this race was quite an accomplishment," accomplish-ment," said Lyubner. "Racers didn't come for a walk in the park. They appreciated the tough course. It kept them on their toes and gave them new goals to strive for," he said. The E100 will have its second birthday next summer, said Lyubner, who expects even more were going to struggle a lot more than they did, but they showed well and gave us a good competition. It's freat that we could compete in the J.S. this time because now it shows that we're up to par with what the Euros are doing," said Jerome. In fourth place on Saturday and fifth on Friday, Park City's Van flew 89.0 88.0-meters and 87.590-meters each day. Her performance was impressive, but disappointing personally, per-sonally, she said. "Saturday was better jumping than Friday, but it still was not even close to the jumps I've been having in practice," said Van. Added Jerome, "Lindsey was killing everybody in training last week, but ski jumping is just so up and down." In more ways than one. When asked if she is headed back home to Austria to train all summer, Iraschko shook her head emphatically emphatical-ly and gave a short, accented, "No." "I'm headed back home to work to earn enough money for the wintertime," win-tertime," she said. The $600 first-place first-place purse means only that she will have to work one week less this summer, sum-mer, she explains. On the same note, coach Casey Colby announced the five USA jumpers who will be going to compete com-pete in the rest of the International Ladies Summer Tour in Europe this August - largely on their own dime. Jessica Jerome, Alissa Johnson, Lindsey Van, Brenna Ellis and Abby Hughes will travel to Austria and on to Germany for four different competitions. com-petitions. "The girls' families pay for their trips and Women's Ski Jumping -1 USA raises as much money as they 11 l ( IN ( the road trip issue, at all your favorite hangouts TO KNOW. EVERYTHING The Park for walk in cPT : i GO"'1 (fx Daniela Iraschko of Austria took can to reimburse them as much as they can," explained Colby. The lack of funding and sponsorship sponsor-ship is largely due to fact that women's ski jumping still goes unrecognized unrec-ognized as a winter Olympic sport. This weekend's International Ski Federation (FlS)-sponsored Women's Continental Cup was a big step in the direction both formal recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and gen july 1 5. YOU CAN'T RESIST. Record die park SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD first place in both events. der equity. "We're having another Cup here next year, and it's going to grow both in teams and numbers," said Peter Jerome, President of Women's Ski Jumping LJSA and Jessica Jeromes father. Jerome added: "It's only a matter of lime before these female jumpers are olficially recognized. Women's ski jumping is something that FIS and the IOC can no longer ignore." 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