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You don’t have to work this hard. Check out the calendar in Scene for local music, events and more! Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 20-22, 2019 After breaking into the top five, USA finishes 14th Single mixed relay comes apart in final bout BEN RAMSEY The Park Record The U.S. biathlon team was close to notching a top-five finish. At the IBU BMW World Cup at Soldier Hollow on Sunday, the single mixed relay team moved up the race standings in strides, thanks to skilled shooting from Susan Dunklee and Sean Doherty. In the penultimate lap at Soldier Hollow, the team was standing as high as fourth after pushing from the startgate in 21st, second to last. With just one lap and one shooting bout to go the team was peering in on the medals positions. “We were right in it until the very last stage,” Dunklee said. In the final shooting round, it all fell apart. Dunklee missed five times – using the five cartridges in her clip, plus three spare rounds loaded by hand to knock down three targets, which caused her to race two penalty loops. After her two penalties, she emerged in 13th and raced the last lap to finish in 14th out of 22 teams – 2 minutes and 3.1 seconds back from first. The Italians, Lukas Hofer and Dorothea Wierer, earned top honors with a time of 35 minutes, 27.9 seconds, followed by Austria’s Simon Eder and Lisa Theresa Hauser, then Antonin Guigonnat and Julia Simon of France. Germany’s Roman Rees and Franziska Preuss took fourth, finishing 1:06.9 back from the Italians. “I think the altitude got to me,” Dunklee said after the race, the venue for which sits just below 6,000 feet. “It’s really hard to pace just right. I think I went a little too hard early in the race and blew up a bit.” Dunklee, who turned 33 years old four days earlier, said that going into the last shooting with a high position was a situation she had been in before. “You definitely know at that stage that if you have a good race you could be on the podium or pretty close,” she said. “And you also know there’s a couple teams right behind you, and they are going after you. It’s all about staying focused on the process – trigger squeeze or follow through TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD USA’s Sean Doherty, and Susan Dunklee (not pictured), reached a high-point of fourth before the final round of the relay team’s shooting. or whatever key word helps you stick with a normal shooting routine. I think I did a good job, I was just a little too torched from the altitude.” She said she felt her heart rate was a little too high, and that her nervous system was too starved of oxygen to smoothly execute her routine. “If you’re off by just the slightest fraction of a second with the timing, that makes a huge difference with the shot.” Dunklee said securing the fourth-place position would have been “a pretty fun cap to a good weekend,” especially for Doherty, who had notched his highest career World Cup finish the day before, but Dunklee added that the team still has other opportunities to perform. “We have the biggest events of the season yet to come,” Dunklee said, referring to the World Championships in Östersund, Sweden, on March 7-17. Looking back on her time in Midway, Dunklee said the event had been “fantastic.” “The energy has been absolutely phenomenal, the crowd has been supporting and inspiring for me, the sunshine is beautiful, you can see the whole course,” she said. “And it was well-organized, everything was smooth. That’s unusual for a new (World Cup) venue to do it so well.” A change in order Sunday’s single mixed relay was the first time the International Biathlon Union had switched the gender order of the relays. Usually, the women start the race, then race the penultimate lap, with the men going second and anchoring the race. At Soldier Hollow, the women went second in the nine-lap race, finishing the event with a final three-lap stage – two laps followed by shooting rounds, then one more lap around the 1.5K course. The change was well received by the athletes, including USA’s Susan Dunklee, who said it appealed to her sensibilities. “I thought when they switched it to this format they would have the guys do an extra loop after the last shooting, so we would both ski 7.5K, but they actually had the guys ski 6K and us 7.5K, which, I’m a bit of a feminist, so I have no problem with that whatsoever,” she said. Continued from B-1 Doherty pursues greatness from the crowd, though the German beat Doherty to the line by .1 seconds. He said the track had softened throughout the day despite officials’ efforts to keep it firm with salt. Gusts of wind had also created tricky shooting conditions. “When you race, you race yourself but you also race the elements too, and that was tough,” he said. “But (I was) really happy I was able to refocus, come back with a strong standing there, and finish off on a good note.” After two strong performances at Soldier Hollow, Doherty said his goal for the season was to keep his momentum going. “I’ve been progressing incrementally throughout the season, and I’m really psyched with this strong back-to-back (performance) here,” he said. “I just Continued from B-1 Sports briefs TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD USA’s Sean Doherty, right, and Germany’s Benedikt Doll, left, race through the final stretch of the IBU World Cup Biathlon’s men’s 12.5 kilometer pursuit race. Doll crossed the line 0.1 seconds ahead of Doherty, taking ninth and 10th, respectively. want to keep this momentum going for the World Champs and finish out strong. That would be huge.” The World Championships are scheduled for March 7-17 in Östersund, Sweden. The Race Vetle Christiansen was the frontrunner going into the 12.5K pursuit on Saturday, having finwent undefeated in league play, but lost in the championship game 95 to 65. Brett Sorensen of Ball 4 Me was named the player of the league, while MVP of the tournament went to Parker Anderson of TGIT who averaged 25 points a game. WINTER II YOUTH TENNIS BASKETBALL LEAGUE CHAMPS South Summit Aquatic and Fitness’s adult basketball league concluded on Thursday, Feb. 14, with team TGIT taking the championship game. The team’s opponent, Ball 4 Me, Registration for Winter II Youth Tennis Programs at the PC MARC is now open. The programs begin Feb. 25 and are open to kids ages 5 through 18. All levels are welcome. For information on days, times, and prices, visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5429. ished first in Friday’s sprint. Christiansen was caught by Quentin Fillon Maillet of France in the third lap after Maillet hit all his targets, and jumped from fifthplace to second. The Frenchman ran away with the race in the final 2.5K lap, over which he gained the entirety of his 25.9-second lead over the Norwegian. Maillet’s teammate, Simon Desthieux, finished third. SUPERHERO TRAINING The PC MARC is hosting a fourweek Superhero Training Academy for children aged 3 through 5 every Friday from 9-9:45 a.m. beginning March 1. “Superheroes” will learn to hop, skip, run, jump and throw. For more information, visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435615-5400. WARRIORS START SEASON The Utah Warriors Major League Rugby team’s next home game is on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Zions Bank Stadium near Bluffdale. The team draws players from Park City’s rugby club, Haggis. For more information go to warriorsrugby.com. |