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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports FREE STUDENT ADMISSION AT PC MARC All Park City School District students with a valid school ID are given free admission into the PC MARC from now until New Year’s Day. For more information, visit parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5400. HOLIDAY BREAK CAMP Basin Recreation is offering full-day camps over the holiday break from Dec. 26-28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Campers will play games in the Fieldhouse gym, plus swimming and arts and crafts at Ecker Hill. The camp is geared toward kids ages 6-12. Early drop-off and late pick up is available for no additional charge. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. www.parkrecord.com SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, DECEMBER 22-25, 2018 Para bobsled gets a push for Paralympics Sport will make use of sled launcher to achieve faster speed, cornering BEN RAMSEY The Park Record On Dec. 14 and 15, para-athletes from nine different countries gathered at the top of the Utah Olympic Park to compete in the opening Para Bobsled World Cup of the season. Para bobsled is not yet a Paralympic sport, though it has had four World Championship competitions, and has a 10-race World Cup circuit. To meet that requirement, there has to be a certain level of competitiveness, and a high level of standardization. John Rosen, former chair of the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation committee to advance para bobsled, said it’s getting there. The sport was granted provisional acceptance into the 2022 Paralympic Games in Beijing, but in September, the IPC deemed the sport unready for HOCKEY RIVALRY GAME The Park City Ice Miners (9-2) will take on last season’s state champions, the Viewmont Vikings (11-0), on Jan. 2 at the Park City Ice Arena at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the game is free. WINTER PASS SALE AT PC MARC The PC MARC is offering a threemonth pass and group fitness add-on at 15 percent off through the end of the year. Gift certificates are also available at the front desk. For more information, visit parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5400. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Please see Sports briefs, B-4 B-1 AMERICANS EARN WINS FIS CUP IS DEBUT FOR AT CONTINENTAL CUP, B-2 LOCAL JUNIOR, B-3 Barry Schroeder receives his bronze medal at the Utah Olympic Park. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Para bobsled drivers wait for their turns to compete in the Para Bobsled World Cup at the Utah Olympic Park on Dec. 15. The competition used a drop start – where the sled is released by hand. Paralympic competition, and pushed its debut back to a possible 2026 appearance. Para bobsleigh competition is subtly different from its Olympic counterpart. For one thing, it’s co-ed. All genders compete against each other with no competitive advantages to consider. Another thing: it’s also quiet. There is no shouting and psyching up before the sleds take off. At five minutes until the first run on Dec. 15, the athletes, who primarily use wheelchairs to get around, gathered in the sun outside of the starting area, and visualized their runs in silence. Eyes closed, they took each mental turn of the track, gesturing through the run with their hands. Then, at the signal of a track official, each of the first 10 athletes got into their single-seat sleds, called monobobs, which were lined up in oped an electromechanical launcher which starts the athletes at roughly the same speed as able-bodied athletes,” said Rosen. “We’ve used it for a couple years in Europe, and we have developed one for North America – we had to change the electronics. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite ready in time for the start of this season, but we will be using it next season and from all races going on from that point.” He said the para-bobsled athletes love the launcher because it gives them more speed, and therefore better handling. “The athletes struggle a little with curves 1, 2 and 3 on this track,” Rosen said. “By next year they will be driving it the same way as the able-bodied athletes do.” Barry Schroeder, a driver for a row and loaded onto the track like artillery shells into a cannon’s breech before each run. There was a solemnity to it, and with the athlete’s helmets pulled down tight, a practicality in their near-silence. At start time, an official slowly lowered the first sled, with racer inside, out to a starting point, asked quietly if they were ready, then let go of the sled’s rear handles as quietly as blinking eyes. Gravity then took over and the sled started its run down the course. The drop start is one of the elements that is on its way out in preparation for the Paralympics. 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