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Wert Cll Sunday, December3, 2000 Tahoe the50K set the U.S. highwater markin cross country skiing until -Ski-Trails May Be Reclaimed __the 1 rise ofBill Koch in the mid- : @ Continued from C-1 place after you puta lot of money duein part to tough building restrictigns and sewer requirements i od in the 1970s to protect Lake Tahoe,oneofthe clearest anddeepestfresh-water bodies in the world. ‘Gaod Lesson’: Antonuccibelieves muchofthe remaining trails and atleastoneof the biath- of Utah skier named Bill Spencer and time into it.” In February 1960, a University stored at a cost " ‘ William Briner Abiathlete fires hisrifle on the 250-meterrange during a 1959 Olympic test event at Lake Tahoe. ready kicked in $20,000 in forming a nonprofit organization, and nearby dation (www.olympictrails.org), seed money, Sugar Pine gungrooming OlympicTrails Recreation Founto workwith California state agencies in trail clearing and construction, set up a ski-history mu- —seum,anderectsignageandinter- Wendall about 12kilo- —_pretative panels. This proposed Brgomhall metersof Olympictrails Antonucci Anton identified on parkland. “It'sagood lesson for the people in Salt Lake. Once park will not be groomed for skatinglike nearby Royal Gorge or Tahoe Donnercross country ski i remain primitive areas, but will with tracksetfor traditional diagonal-stride skiing at no charge, according to Antonucci. Tahoe's west shore remainsa sleepy melangeof national forest, Andrew Miller ou you've gotit, rustic cabins and bed-and- don’t lose it,” saidAntonucci,referringto Sal it Lake breakfasts, well off the radar screensof the destination skiers headed to Alpine Meadows, Squaw andNorthstar to the north Olympicorga- nizers’ prelim- inary plan to let Soldier Hollow, the 2002 Nordic venue near Midway, Yevert to. cow pastureafter the Games. Soldier Hollow will havea postOlympic life as adestination Nordic resort thanksto efforts by Utalhski enthusiasts and Wasatch County boosters, who wona finan- cial commitmentfrom thestate to help pay for $1 million day lodge. Antenucciis in the process of . has historic significance for the list of innovations Broomhall and others devised for those Games. area in the United States. At the to change. Thiswas thefirst time for skiing. The Eastern bloc coun- weapons thatreflected the mili- had neverseen anythinglike this tary roots ofthe sport. The Games’ most important the woods,” Antonuccisaid. “1960 wasa period when the sport began. there wei trails built specifically peal,” said New Hampshire consultant John Frado, who prepared feasibility study for Antonucci’s proposals. “There’s a lot of history on the west shore. This is a way to employit.It’s not a developr ent. ~ It fits the fur of the neighbor- hood.” The 1960 cross country venue fles in favorof the large-bore tries were checkingit out. They fore. Nordic innovation arose from Broo) and Merrill's efforts to cope:with the Sierra snow conditions that were alternately slushy from thebrilliant afternoon sun oe bullet-prooffrom overnight reezes, “That snowsets up so hard you can’t break it with a sledge ham- Said Broomhall, “Up until then it was the best course anyone had everraced on.” New Look:Forthefirst time in the Olympics, trails were ma- chine groomed, racers were electronically timed, courses were given a 10-kilometer event(still pretty short, but a start toward portunity to create a signature ap- ence. To make the sport easier to manage andto watch, they set up courses of the future using a single 50-meter shooting range. This led to standardized targetsizes and uniform use of .22-caliberri- color coded, women(or“ladies,” as they werethen called) were “For the westshore,it’s an op- International biathlonofficials learned from the Tahoe experi- 1932 Games [in LakePlacid], they justflagged the course through up the area’s Olympic heritage. 1 WEEK ONLY—ENDS 12/9/00 ‘Tread Design May Vary, Limited to Stock on Hand cOsT! BRIDGESTONE’ DAYTON KELLY TIRES mer,” Broomhall said. “Wetried everythingto break up that snow for good skiing, butit wasn’t good parity with men, whose longdistance eventis 50 kilometers), biathlon was a medal event, HOODOO Mice NEW ALL SEASON RADIALS enough.” ‘Then he began adapting agri- cultural implements for use on events were covered live by televi- 155R12 P155/80R13 snow. Hauling something called a sion, and the Americans showed grain flail chopper behind Tucker snowcats,his crewswere able to groom 8-footlanes. upwith a full contingent of Nordic athletes. Oneof them was Andrew “Mack”Miller, a 28-year-old Idahoan whose 17th-place finish in P175/80R13 Any size listed “Why wedidn’t go the next step make a lot of unforced errors. We Reach Sweet 16 ing to swing high, and we just made someerrors.” Crosbie had 11 kills in herfinal match, but had 11 errors as well. HEOOO mite 175/70R13 185/70R13 mitted to basketball next weekend, the Cougars were almost certain “We.do have a bid in,” Coach Elaine Michaelissaid. Alas,,the Huskers rallied from a 14-11 deficit in the fourth game and won the fifth game 15-13, meaning the Cougars will have to go through the only unbeaten team in the coun- try if they are goingto reach the Final Fourfor the firsttime since 1993. Gog, thing Michaelis suspects her team is the best one she has had since that 93 squad. “We're a little bit better, as a complete team, than we have been,” she said ‘The Cougars certainly looked the part against the Aggies, putting upa ferocious block that the Ags could almost neverpenetrate. BYU’s Nina Puikkonen alone was in on eightstops, while Melissa Layton and Jackie Bundy put up the wall that kept Hailey MacKay’s kill attempt from sparing the Ags on match point. All together, the Cougs compiled 17% blocks to the Aggies’ ll. “We were so muchbetter with our block than we were” in Logan, Michaelissaid. ‘The serving wasn’t bad, either. Layton and her jump serve did ~REMOVE UNWANTED \ HAIR FOREVER! BC $119.95 sMOULDERS $139.95 AC $179.95 LOWE LuGS $159.95 Upren LuGs $169.95 * Our laser is FDA-approved for permanency! * NEVERbave to wax, bleach or shave again! 34ToPENING! GRAND (Bon) $7 0 nixins cine $119.95 UNDERARMS $119.95 mie $99.95. 10! 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