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Show fun’Games TheSalt Lake Tribune 018 More Gold:sitrib2002.com Monday, February 18, 2002 UTAR HOW(CTHEN Week.1: Reviews Run Hot and Cold HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Park City: Phoenix Ofthe Rockies In thelate1860s, soldiers from Salt Lake City's CampDouglas besan prospecting the peaks south of the vast meadowat Parley’s Park, vhat is nowPark City. Th opened the Young Ameri in December1869, thefirst reordedclaim in the Park City Min: District. he phenomenally rich Ontario, ‘onsidered by some the world's reatest silver mine, madePark boomtown. George Hearst purchasedthe minein 1872 for $27,000, andoveritslife the On tario produced about $50 million Park City silver bankrolled the ifearst newspaper empire. Like mining camps throughout e West, fire was thebaneoflife Park City. Conflagrations ured the town in 1882 and1885, a virtual apocalyy ruck at 4 but im. on June19, 1898. Driven by anyon winds, flames devoured Main Street and some200 build. s. Within seven hours, threequéarters of thie townlay in ruins. Destroying property worth more than $1 million, thefire was the worst in Utah history. Citizens began rebuilding Park City the next day, but mining slowly declined over the decades. ‘The Park Utah Consolidated Min. ing Co. discoveredvast deposits and was thelargest silver producer in the U.S. by1928, but the Great Depression ended the glory days of ‘k City’s mines. Bythe 1950s it was practically a ghost town. Park City ultimately produced ——————— The snowyhills and valleys of Utah represented the warmest place in America last week. Even when the ‘HOW ARE WE DOING? windblewcold, the finesportsman ship and fellow feeling that is traditional to the Winter Games, lifted last weekto an absurdheight bytheloveeverybody snowboarders, the new let’s do-right IOC and the continuing sympathy for the U.S. of A., was lovely see and to join. — Time.com Better On TV “Fromwhat you see on TV, every- thingis great,”said [a San Francisco man, attendinghis fifth Winter Games]. “But asfar as the actual Olympic excitement goes, it’s all about tickets and pins and money. It's acold, sterile place. People are wander ingaaroundin a stateof mental lockdown.” — Gannett NewsService So Far So Good “I'mahistorian, so I tend to take timeto makeassessments,” John Lu: cas, an Olympichistorian andretired Penn Stateprofessor,said. “But I was in Salt Lakeforthefirst eight days, andI think these Games have a chanceto go downas far and awaythe best-managed andbest-runin history.”If only, goes an often-heard re- frain amongthecity’s residents,it weren't for that darn French skating judge. — The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘Skategate in Salt Lake’ In thecity that was so dogged by scandal during its bid for the Games, it was somehowinevitablethatthe actual action in Salt Lake would also be WORLD REACTION Compiled by Anna Cekola remembered for controversial shenanigans. ‘Skategate’ has been the talk of the townsince thatfateful Mondaynight, and no matter what happens in the remainingdays, it will haveprovided the lasting images of these Winter Olympics. — BBC Sport Online New Name We wondered last week how the Salt Lake City Games would go down in history. As the Star-Spangled Games? As the metal detector-marred Waiting Games? Now wehave our an- swer. The Asterisk Games. TheIce Caper Games. The Tarnished Gold Games.These Gameswill be remembered forthetie that wasn’t. — The Miami Herald tional skating community. About time,too. — The Toronte Star World Questions Influence This wouldn't have happened to Moldovia, or Azerbaijan, or some otherplace you'd need a map and a magnifyingglass tolocate. If there was one commonreaction among those who send the news home aroundthe globe from the Winter Olympics, it was that volumegets heard whenyou are trying an early rewrite of Olympic history... .In Saturday's Post newspaper in Goteberg, Sweden, columnist Mats Haerd agreed. “This could never happentoa figure skating pair from Moldovia,” he wrote. — Chicago Tribune Sirange Days ‘Thepast five days here in Utah : Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman wasthrilled with his collaboration with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square on Saturday night. Usually whenheplays with an orchestra, he explained, “they just wantto know fast or slow,loudorsoft.” But when he told this orchestra and choirthat a passage in the program “should soundlike a blessing, they knew exactly whatI meant.” Q She Already Has Her Gold: A fan spotted figure skating great Kristi Yamaguchi ata hotel and almost called her “Michelle.” Yamaguchi the 15th time she was mistaken strange even in a land where the here for this year’s Olympic hope- cough syrup has more kick than the beer. Eversince the Russian pair of ful Michelle Kwan. Q bles in Russian?) was awarded the gold medal over Canada’s JamieSale and David Pelletier, the media has beenonthisstory like tattoos on Rod- Sikharulidze (how do you spell Wee- man. This is what happens when you America, at a time when the people have8,000 journalists in a confined there are wearingtheir hearts on their sleeves, post-Sept. 11, even more space, drearily contemplating the bulk of the behemothhelped scare the bejeebers outof the haughty interna Sacred Sounds At the Temple noticed andappreciated the catch, saying it would have been about Could havenever doneit — turned silver to gold without your support. Big Brothertreatment we often get from our neighbors, when they're not ignoring us. But this time the sheer FACES IN THE CROWD have been surreal. Of course, anyfive Elena Berezhnaya and Anton than usual?. . . Canadiansresent the a daysin Utahis surreal. Butthis is Thanks America . . .Anyway, whatbetter place to take a righteousstand thanin the heart of Mormoncountry,in the heart of ae prospects of covering events like “Nordic Combined: Team 4x5km Re- Low Profile: Whena reporter asked Dutchspeedskater Rintje Ritsma howInternational Olym: pic Committee President Jacques Rogge would change the Games” image, Ritsma was perplexed. “Rogge?”said the four-time Olympian. “Whois Rogge?Isn't Samaranchthe IOCpresident any- Classical.” more? For six months? | didn’t knowthat. You can't expect change from Samaranch.I've never heard — Freedom Communications Newspaper Group (East Valley Tribune of Mesa,Ariz.) haveideas, but he does something with the ideas.” lay” or “Cross-Country: Women’s 5km out $500 million in mineral vealth and 23 millionaires, ing thecolorful Princ of Rogge, but I hope he doesn't just UTAH 101 Bransford Emery HolmesDelitch Engalitcheff, Utah's Silver Queen. utAy BUD WORLD, In the 1960s, great snow and stunningscenery made ParkCitya natural winter resort, and once again Downtown Salt Lake City the historic town rose Phoenixlike fromits ashes. Pleasedo notlook atthis photo. BEEHIVE STATE OF MIND 2s POLYGAMY:Utahis synony. mouswith polygamy, once consid- sroQ © Will Bagley ered a necessary step to eternal sal vation. In the 112 years since the LDS Churchofficially renounced plural marriage, increasingly stronger stands have been taken againstit. Today, Mormons who practice thelifestyle are systemati A PIN A DAY rRADING ME EMOR ABILIA cally excommunicated. Nooneis exactly sure how Outin the Cold many polygamous marriagesexist Fora Hot Beret tice to keep Utah the plural mar- Each day during the Olympics, wewill trade a Salt Lake Tribune pin to see whatwecangetforit. Today’s pin: Cinco de Mayopin, Salt Lake 2002. Trader: Kathy Ludlow, Provo. Trade took place: Friday,10:20 a.m., outside the Roots store in The Gateway, Salt Lake City. Althoughcritics claimthat polygamy enslaved women, Utah in Utah today, but enough fundamentalists still adhereto the pracriage capital of the country. women voted in elections long before their sisters in the rest of America. In 189%, plural wife and suffragette Martha Hughes Cannon defeated her husbandfora seat in thestate Legislature, becoming the first woman everelectedtothat of: fice in the UnitedStates. Robert Kirby Whythis pin: “Be- cause that’s the day ; my husband and I had ourfirst date, 28 years PURE UTAH ago. . . .It'salimited edition of 1,000 only f and I haveanother one at home, or I wouldn't give youthis one.” LISTINGS” x TRINIA Olympic moment: Waiting in line since 7 a.m. to buy a USA 2002 ‘Trent Nelson/TheSalt Lake Tribune beret. “This is mythirdtimetotry for a hat. Every time I watch the news, the newscasters are wearing them. Also,their resale value —I sell things on eBay. There's a pos: sibility my hat maygo on eBay, butit’s only if 1 can stand to part with it after I spent so much time to get it.” Sean P. Means TOP 10 LISTS 10 OlympicThings Utah's Porn Czar Should Check Out 10. Super-G spots 9, Barenaked Ladies 8. Whether the word “puck” is three-quarters obscene 7. Biathlon 6. Whether the two-man luge Top 10 Movies About Utah (In chronological order) Care Package for Our Good Friends in Denver Just Add (Salt) Water:A trailer loaded with thousandsof boxes of Jell-O donated bylisteners of 107.5 “The End” left Salt Lake City on Sunday afternoon and was expected to arriveat the posh headquarters of The Denver Post today, delivering a generous supply oftheofficial state snack in honor of whiny Post columnist Woody Paige. Paige's Mormonbashing column last week has given him far more attention than his motherever did. Thought: Isn't the best way to deal with a tantrum: tossing tyke to ignore him? Not-So-Evil Twin: Meanwhile, Denver Post columnist Chuck Green effused SundayaboutSalt Lake and the Olympics, praising hospitality, transportation, “stealth proselytiz- ing,”city pride, “classy merchandising,” and overall performance,giving low marksto price-gouging and air quality, “Salt Lake has silver medalclinched andis going for the gold in Week 2,” he wrote, Probably has nothing to do with Woodygate or Post Editor Glen Guzzo's Sunday mea culpa thatsaid a majority of readers found Paige's column “far over the lineof propriety, especially to the extentthat it unfairly labeled a class of people Utahansin general and Mormonsin particular. Count the leadership of The Denver Post in the majority,” ———v REPORTERS” NOTEBOOK 2002 TIDBITS Doing the Wave: One Salt Lake Organizing Committee crowd control officer to another, as thousandsex: ited the Medals Plaza on Friday night: “After a while, you canget sea- sick just from lookingat the people.” Sacre Bleu! Perhaps we have a new clue in the motive behindthe French pairs skating judge stiffing the Canadian couple. Le Monde, the French newspaper,reports that the Canadian National Olympic Committee (NOC)had tried to persuade directors ofthe Alta Club to break their oral agreement with the French NOC to rent the downtownclubfor the France House hospitality headquarters, The Alta Club had a handshakedeal with the French for a twoweek,$30,000 rental early on. Then thelate-coming Canadians report- edly offered the Alta Club $150,000 if Canada could use the building. With a tinge of astonishment, Selon Laurent Chabaud,director ofthe French NOC,said, “The Utah businessmen kept their word.” ‘ Sorry: Salt Lake Organizing Committee President Mitt Romney apologized on “behalf of the Olympics” Saturday to a Boston Herald reporter whowas roughed up by a Games se- curity officer. Steve Harris says he was accosted by an angry officeraf- ter he mistakenly walked into a secure area. Romney, who has had his “Brigham Young: Frontiersman” (1940) Tyrone Powerand Linda Darnell are the leads in this wagon-train adventure, but check out Vincent Price as Joseph Smith. “Western Union” (1941) RandolphScott and Dean Jagger battle outlaws while they string the telegraphline from Omaha to Salt LakeCity. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”(1969) — The famous outlawsspent someof their time in own flipping problems with Olympic police, apologized a day after Utah Utah, you know. “The Executioner’s Song” Olympic Public Safety Command chief Robert Flowers saidtheofficer did whathe needed to do to protect the Games, (1982) — Tommy LeeJones became Fitting: Rep. Jim Hansen of Utah helped presentflowers to the three medal winners after the women's super-G race Sunday at Snowbasin. Hansenalso is the congressman w! helped present hotel baron Earl Holding with a nice chunk of national forest in a controversial land swap so Holding could build Snowbasin’s new base area and coming luxury home development. Perks: Some Utah Health Depart: ment workers seem to be coming up with any excuse to get into the Olympic Village — aren't enough toilet paper dispensers, for instance. Once inside, staffers buy Tshirts and ask athletes to sign them. by Christopher Smith a star by playing convicted killer Gary Gilmore in this miniseries. “Plan 10 From Outer Space” (1994) — Mormon mythology,set to arock-and-roll space fantasy, Cool! “Outof the Past” (1998) — A Salt Lake lesbian’s battle to start a high school clubis the backdrop for this documentary chronicling theare of gay rights, ‘SLC Punk!” (1999) — A funny, touching insider accountof life in Salt Lake's '80s punk-rock scene, “Beaver Trilogy” (2001) Utah's oddball laureate, Trent Har ris, finds a truly unique character, and then re-creates his life story three ways. “Brigham City” (2001) The blurry line between religion and secular life is explored in Richard Dutcher’s abesedey murder mystery. in the Heart” (2001) - TheGary ievee ee again, as ‘ ‘ |
