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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 11-13, 2017 B-3 The Park Record Behind the Gold Park City’s oldest most consistent collision center Est. 1978. By Tom Kelly cycling’s Tour de France. Alpe Cermis is its Alpe d’Huez. Skiing up the nine kilometer face of the Italian ski resort is painful enough. But to do it after spending a week of pushing yourself well past the brink every day is beyond comprehension. “It’s our Mt. Everest,” said Jessie Diggins of the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team, who won one of the seven stages and finished fifth in the Tour - matching the U.S. mark set by teammate Liz Stephen two years ago. “It’s the challenge Collision at Quinn’s Junction Pain that never felt so good Norwegian cross country skier Heidi Weng stood atop Alpe Cermis screaming. Below, her teammate Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg was challenging Swede Stina Nilsson for third in the seventh and final stage of the Tour de Ski. The screams came with passion deep from within her burned out lungs. Two minutes earlier, she had won one of cross country ski racing’s biggest prizes, passing out exhausted onto the snow. The Tour de Ski is cross country ski racing’s version of CKM “Physics Behind Collision Repair” of doing something so hard that most people in the world can’t or won’t do it. When you’re standing at the top look down you feel this huge sense of hard-earned accomplishment and say, ‘hey, I did that.’” In 2008, the second year of the Tour, then 19-year-old Stephen saw a video of the climb with her idol Charlotte Kalla of Sweden chasing Finn Virpi Kuitunen stride for stride up the climb. On the final switch- Receive 5% off auto repairs exp. 02/28/17 Please see Behind the Gold, B-4 Ski team hosts first qualifier Jon Brady Office Manager Chad Knaras 3844 North Old Highway 40 Park City | Utah | 84098 Owner 435.649.9802 ckmcollision.com assemble PARK CITY ExEcutivE OfficE SpacE in Kimball JunctiOn Tanzi Propst/Park Record Alyssa Gorsch of the Park City Ski Team skis around the gate during the David Wright Memorial Giant Slalom Race on Sunday afternoon. The race, a three-day event, was held on Park City Mountain’s black diamond C.B.’s Run. Local skiers earn podium finishes at weekend series Private Offices Work Stations For more information please contact Angela at 435-200-1312 info@assembleparkcity.com | www.assembleparkcity.com Submitted by the Park City Ski Team The first qualifier for the Under-14 (U14) Intermountain Division (IMD) of alpine ski racing took place at Park City Mountain Resort from Jan. 6-8. Over 200 racers from the IMD region of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming competed in the series that started with one day of slalom racing followed by two days of giant slalom (GS). With below zero temperatures and sunny skies, the first race in the series started Friday morning with U14 Girls. Out of a field of 95 competitors, Anhwei Kirk from Sun Valley had the fastest runs of the day. The format is the combined time of two runs. Athletes from the Park City Ski Team in the top 15 include Lindsey Aten (8th), Fiona Sawyer (14th) and Emerson Ryan (15th). With 111 male competitors, it was Ryder Sarchett of Sun Valley with the fastest combined time. It was a strong day for the Park City Ski Team’s U14 Boys with the following top 15 finishes: Gunnar Travis (2nd), Tay Polster (4th), Dylan Thompson (6th), Tyler Young (8th), Benny Brown (9th), Dillon Bush (12th), and Sebastian Sheppard (15th). Under mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the low Co-Working Space Conference Rooms Tanzi Propst/Park Record Coale Stangeland of the Park City Ski Team skis down the giant slalom course during the David Wright Memorial Race on Sunday morning. teens, the first U14 girls’ GS race started at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. All racers competed on CB’s Run with 300 meters of vertical drop. On Saturday, the top female racer was Mary Bocock of Rowmark. Female PCST athletes in the top 15 spots included: Alyssa Gorsch (6th), Lauren Stemler (7th), Mimi Luna (9th), Mia Hunt (11th) and Emerson Ryan (14th). For the male competitors, it was Grant Hagen of Jackson Hole Ski Club who captured the top podium spot. He shared the podium with two PCST athletes, Leyton Sheppard who earned second and Jack Pollard who earned third. Other PCST boys that captured Top 15 spots include Dylan Thompson (8th) and Johann Dellenbach (15th). With another early start the following day and light snow flurries in the air, the U14 Girls took to the slopes to see who would be the fastest GS racer of the day. It was Bocock of Rowmark for the second day in a row who secured the top podium spot. Luna of the PCST captured a third-place finish. Also skiing into solid points to qualify for championships were PCST athletes Alyssa Gorsch (6th), Lauren Stemler (8th), Lindsey Aten (14th) and Madison Kaiserman (15th). For the U14 Boys, it was Ryder Sarchett of Sun Valley who threw down the fastest combined runs on Sunday. The PCST was represented well in the top 15 spots, including Gunnar Travis (4th), Leyton Sheppard (5th), Jack Pollard (7th), Tyler Young (11th), and Dylan Thompson (14th). The next qualifier will be held at Snowbasin Resort from Feb. 3-5. The format of the race series will be three days of Super G races. To learn more about the Park City Ski Team, please visit parkcityskiteam.org. Tanzi Propst/Park Record Stefan Brennwald of the Park City Ski Team skis around the gate during the David Wright Memorial Giant Slalom Race on Sunday morning. |