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Show SPORTS The Park Record. STAY STRONG THROUGH MINERS HOPE TO GET THE LOSS OF SPORTS, B-2 BACK ON THE FIELD, B-3 www.parkrecord.com Editor: Ryan Kostecka sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports B-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, MARCH 21-24, 2020 Flying Home ICE MINERS LOSE SHOT AT NATIONALS The Park City Ice Miners high school hockey team will no longer be traveling to Dallas to participate in the 2020 U.S. hockey national championships as the COVID-19, the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. The Miners earned their spot at the national championship after taking down Farmington 5-1 in the division-one state title game on Feb. 24. PC MARC CLOSED As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, the MARC has shut its doors until March 30, when the situation will be re-evaluated and an update will follow. Call 435-615-5411 or email ken@parkcity.org for immediate assistance. BASIC REC SHUTS IT DOWN Following the recommendation of the Summit County Health Department, Basin Recreation has closed Fieldhouse until March 31. All existing facility and fitness memberships will be extended accordingly. As the situation continues to change, Basin Recreation will reevaluate the closure and related pass extension as more information becomes available. PARK CITY PASSING LEAGUE REGISTRATION IS OPEN Registration for the Park City Passing League, a non-contact football league, opened Feb. 24. The league runs from April 9 through May 31 and is coached by members of the Park City High School football team. It’s a 5-on-5 noncontact football passing league with participants from the second grade to the ninth grade — eighth- and ninth-graders will participate in 6-on-6 and 7-on-7 games, respectively. For more information or to register, go to www.parkcitypassingleague.com. PCHS MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB MEETING There will be an informational meeting on Wednesday, April 1 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. for all interested new riders and parents at the Blair Education Center at the Intermountain Park City Hospital. The team is open to fall semester 7th through 12th grade students who have a passion for mountain biking, or maybe want to see what it takes to get there. There is no need to register in advance. Email Chris Best at parkcitymtb@gmail.com or call/text 760-846-1280 with any questions. HALL BRINGS HOME X GAMES GOLD Parkite Alex Hall had a successful competition at X Games Norway two weeks ago. Hall won the gold medal during the ski knuckle huck event before winning silver during the ski slopestyle event. There are the first X Games medals Hall has won this season, bringing his total count to four (3 gold, 1 silver) medals throughout his X Games career. For more sports briefs, please visit www.parkrecord.com/sports I highly recommend Nancy Bond and Emerald Care. My dad was challenged by a serious illness… I couldn't be there with him… I trust Nancy implicitly. She is determined to find the right solution for each situation. As an RN and former hospice worker, she also brings oversight, expertise, humor and most importantly - peace of mind. PHOTO BY TOM KELLY/USA NORDIC USA Nordic national team member Taylor Fletcher flies through the air during the 2017 U.S. Ski Jumping Championships at Utah Olympic Park. Fletcher, who recently returned to the United states amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, says FIS made the correct decision in canceling events. U.S. national team athletes home due to COVID-19 pandemic RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record For Ted Ligety, the end of his season definitely came quicker than expected, although it wasn’t a complete surprise. “It’s weird, it’s kind of an empty feeling when your season ends like that. … Especially because Cortina is a cool spot so it’s bizarre and just leaves kind of a vacancy when you think about it,” Ligety said. “We began hearing about this at the beginning on February when the races in China were canceled. It’s crazy how it’s covering the globe so quickly and affecting all of us so strongly is shocking.” Unfortunately the outbreak of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, throughout Europe forced Ligety to return home, canceling the remainder of his season. He first got a feeling that his event in Austria was going to be canceled because the women’s event, which took place before his, was canceled on Wednesday, March. 11. He then went to bed that night thinking ominously about his event, but noting that it was still a go at the time before a phone call the next day changed everything. “My wife called me at 2 p.m. and told me that Trump announced shutting down travel to Europe so I went and did my research, figured that there was a 1% chance my race would happen, and booked my flight home at 2:30 in the morning,” Ligety said. “The Munich airport was empty that afternoon, which was really bizarre to see. The flight wasn’t overly full and everything was pretty normal going through customs, which I thought there would be more going on.” Ligety was far from the only U.S. team athlete to return home from overseas following U.S. Ski and Snowboard and USA Nordic’s decision to cancel all domestic events and require their athletes to return to the states as soon as possible. “We’d been evaluating all travel on an event-by-event basis as this virus outbreak began to evolve, so for us it wasn’t a panic when we decided to bring them all back,” said Lara Carlton, PHOTO BY MAX HALL/U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD Parkite Ted Ligety, pictured getting ready for a training run during a U.S. ski team training session at Copper Mountain in 2019, is home safely with his family after returning to Park City following the cancellation of the remainder of the alpine ski season due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. communications manager for U.S. Ski and Snowboard. “When the travel restrictions came down last Wednesday, we took immediate action through our team managers and traveling agents who were in Europe to return them all before the Friday deadline. We understand the severity of this and just want to make sure everyone is healthy and safe now.” According to Carlton, all U.S. Ski and Snowboard athletes are in constant communication with team doctors upon returning the country. Because the athletes have not only been overseas but also traveled through Europe so much over the past two months, they’ve been advised to go into a 14-day self-isolation while relaying their temperatures and symptoms to team doctors during that time period. “The U.S. Ski team mandated us two weeks isolation as a precaution, so we stayed really close to not spread it in case we were carrying anything because we were in level three zones,” said Nick Page, U.S. moguls team member. “We haven’t been tested unless we are showing symptoms. … But our medical staff is up to date with all of us so that’s been really good. I’m feeling great, although I had a stuffy nose the first day back, but I think that was just back from a long day of travel.” For Page, his trip home was a whirlwind that happened so quickly. The team was in Russia but then traveled to Sweden for the final world cup events of the season. Page was scrolling on his iPhone around 5:30 a.m. when the email came in that the athletes would be returning home but they weren’t sure when. Then things escalated. “Our head coach emailed us about five minutes later that we were planning on getting out of there as soon as possible,” Page said. “We had a meeting at 8 that morning and from there it become a whirlwind and went pretty fast once the news came down from the top. 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Unfortunately Lussi embarked on a grueling 35-hour trip from Slovenia to her home in Lake Placid, New York, a trip the U.S. ski jumping team member said she’d always remember. “I’m very happy to be home after getting in a few nights ago. … I mean being there and going through that journey was a little too close to comfort for me,” Lussi said. “I realized that I had to get home because Slovenia was closing down its airports so I didn’t have much time at all. And it just set me on this journey to Turkey, Montreal and finally home, something I will never forget. It was insane.” 50% OFF for First Responders and Healthcare Workers THANK YOU! 435.604.4016 4 PM - 10 PM OWNER / ADMINISTRATOR EmeraldCare -IHS.com / Visit us on Facebook! Locally Owned & Operated / Licensed & Insured DAILY TEMPERATURE CHECKS PERFORMED ON EMPLOYEES. |