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ORBIT ORBIT THE SECOND FRONT P AGE FEBRUARY 21, 2010 Sunday Focus: Sports & Recreation T ELLURIDE D AILY P LANET OLYMPICS EUROS UPSET VONN IN SUPER-G Vail star denied sweep of speed events By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer W HISTLER, British Columbia (AP) A n d r e a Fischbacher got Austria’s “Wunderteam” back on track by winning gold in the Olympic super-G Saturday, denying Lindsey Vonn a sweep of the speed events. Taking advantage of a tricky course-set arranged by one of her coaches, Fischbacher navi- gated her way down Franz’s Run in 1 minute, 20.14 seconds. “It was really crazy,” Fischbacher said. “It was a real- ly straight course and you had to push from start to finish.” Tina Maze of Slovenia took a surprise silver, 0.49 second behind, and Vonn had to settle for bronze, 0.74 second back. While many of the pre-race favorites struggled with a sharp right turn midway down, Vonn made it through that section without a problem. But then she lost nearly half a second on the bottom section of the course. “Once I got past those diffi- cult sections, I kind of backed off the gas pedal,” Vonn said. “I felt like I just didn’t ski as aggres- sively as I could have, and I think that’s where I lost the race.” Vonn celebrated as if she had won, raising her arms in tri- umph, then was relaying a course report via a two-way radio up to her teammates still at the start when Fischbacher beat her. Fischbacher looked like she didn’t believe it when she glanced at the scoreboard upon crossing the line, backing into the safety mattresses lining the finish area and nearly falling over. “It’s just a great feeling,” Fischbacher said. Vonn, who lives and trains in Vail, Colo., won gold in the down- hill to open her Olympics and then wiped out in the slalom leg of the super-combined. Depending on how her bruised right shin holds up, the American still has two events remaining at the Vancouver Games giant slalom and slalom. Vonn was hurt Feb. 2, when she tumbled and slammed the top of her right boot against her shin during pre-Olympic prac- tice in Austria. While other skiers were free-skiing the course Friday, Vonn took a com- plete day off to give her shin more time to heal. 1. On your Sunday afternoon, take in an opera. The Palm will be screening an encore transmission of “Der Rosenkavalier” from the Metropolitan Opera House at 4 p.m. Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for students. 2. Local acting company SquidShow Theatre presents the opening performance of “Big Love” on Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Ah Haa. This is theatre like you are not used to. It’s free, call 708-3934 to make a reservation. SquidShow will also perform this Charles Mee play on Monday, as well as Feb. 28 and March 1. 3. Monday night is movie night at the Wilkinson Public Library. On the marquee: “Johnny Mercer, the Dream’s On Me.” Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Mercer’s birth with this documentary. It’s at 6 p.m., free. Planet Picks Gus Kenworthy as he appeared in an ad for Smith. [Photo by Brian Becker] SPORTS Young Telluride pro sweeps three events By BRITTANNY HAVARD Planet Contributor N amed the eighth best skier in the world under 18 by Powder magazine, Tellurider Gus Kenworthy is liv- ing up to his press. Proving age is just a number, young park skier Kenworthy, 18, demonstrated his prowess by taking first in three ski events this month. He’s also shown he knows how to make a comeback. Due to an injury, he missed the first two events this year of the three- event Dew tour. “I was actually feeling badly for him,” said Gus’ father, Peter Kenworthy. “He broke his collar- bone and was out for two months.” Gus pushed his injury — his dad thought prematurely — to come back for the third tour event at Mt. Snow Feb. 7, where Kenworthy struggled in the first two events, failing to qualify in either the pipe or slopestyle. However, during the big air event, his last chance, Kenworthy walked away with first place with his cork 900 nose grab to true tail grab. In lay- man’s terms, Kenworthy spun two-and-a-half times and shifted his hand from grabbing the tip of his skis to the tail of his skis. Kenworthy made this extremely difficult maneuver look effort- less. Winning big air, said dad Peter, “really re-charged him. It was really encouraging,” Kenworthy then went on to the Aspen/Snowmass Open, Feb. 12 and 13, one of the largest open events in the world, second only to the European Freeski Open in Laax, Switzerland. In Aspen, he swept the pipe and slopestyle, winning over $10,000 in prize money. A solid run with stylish grabs helped Gus nab the win in pipe. In slopestyle, his winning run went like this: “left foot forward K-Fed on the top rail, switch 630 on 270 out of the gap to down box, 360 nose tap over the hitch- ing post, 450 on 630 out of the rainbow rail, kangaroo flip over the first table, switch right 720 mute, into a switch dub cork 1080 Japan.” Out of all the recent wins, which victory does Kenworthy find the sweetest? “Definitely the Aspen Open,” Kenworthy said. “I drove up with my roommate Colby Ward. We went up there and pipe was first. I train most heavily for slopestyle, but when I got to the pipe I was feeling it. I was hop- ing to place top five in the pipe and top three in slopestyle. To walk away winning both pipe and slopestyle was incredible. Someone told me the last time someone came away with both was Tanner Hall in 1998, so to win this was incredible.” Kenworthy moved to Tellurider when he was 2, and took right to skiing. “I grew up skiing moguls in Telluride Ski School,” Kenworthy said. “I wanted to go pro.” As a teenager, Kenworthy has practically lived in Telluride’s terrain park. Eventually, people took notice. And, two years ago, Kenworthy got what he wanted. “CoreUPT Skis came to me with a contract and a salary, so that’s when I technically became pro,” he said. He now lives mostly in the high-flying world of pro skiing, sponsored by CoreUPT Skis, Smith Optics and Helmets, Empire Gloves and Skullcandy. Consumed by skiing, he spends the winters in Breckinridge, which he thinks has the best terrain park. He keeps one foot in Telluride, com- pleting his courses for Telluride High School online, his teachers grading him via the Internet. And on June 4, graduation day, OLYMPICS AMERICANS DOMINATING SLOPES Miller, Weibrecht medal behind Svindal in super-G By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer W HISTLER, British Columbia (AP) ó Leave it to Bode Miller to bring a little trash talk to Alpine skiing. After his silver and Andrew Weibrecht’s bronze behind win- ner Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway in Friday’s super-G, Miller was asked to explain why the Americans have been domi- nating the slopes with six medals through four races at these Olympics. Miller smiled that here- comes-a-good-one smile of his and began, “Aside from the fact that we’re just much better than everybody else ...” Can’t really argue with the guy. With six events still to go, the United States already has col- lected its most Alpine medals at a single Winter Games, topping the five at Sarajevo in 1984. Norway is the only other country with more than one medal so far, thanks entirely to Svindal, who also got a silver in the downhill. Indeed, that first medal eased his mind before Friday’s race. Standing in the start gate, with Miller and Weibrecht holding the day’s top two times to that point, Svindal thought to him- self, “You already have a silver and it can only get better, so enjoy this and give it all you have. Don’t hold anything back.” He finished in 1 minute, 30.34 seconds, 0.28 faster than Miller of Franconia, N.H., who gave away time at the bottom of the course and acknowledged he “ran out of gas a little bit.” Weibrecht of Lake Placid, N.Y., never before fared better than 10th in a significant race but wound up only 0.03 of a second slower than Miller. “If you don’t watch ski racing every weekend, you might miss my name,” Weibrecht dead- panned. “It definitely feels good to establish myself.” See S SK KI IE ER R, , Page 30 Birthdays Feb. 21: Mark Campbell, Danny Desantis, Bradley Domas, Pamela Hall, Kathryn Holland, Eric Lackey, Ryan Leblanc, Robert Murphy, Gerald Newton, Rodney Porsche, Rhea Reynolds, William Sheppard, Bob St. Onge, Larry Wooddell; Feb. 22: Kristi Allen, Jerelyn Corby, Ronn Dilley, Heidi Ebrecht, Judith Epley, Rich Estes, Judith Johnson, Joanna Marlow, Sara Nyari, Damien Webster, Wiley Wood.
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ORBITORBITTHE SECOND FRONT PAGE
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
Sunday Focus: Sports & Recreation
TELLURIDE DAILY PLANETOLYMPICS
EUROS UPSET VONN IN SUPER-GVail star denied
sweep of speed eventsBy ANDREW DAMPF
AP Sports Writer
WHISTLER, BritishColumbia (AP)A n d r e aFischbacher gotA u s t r i a ’ s
“Wunderteam” back on track bywinning gold in the Olympicsuper-G Saturday, denyingLindsey Vonn a sweep of thespeed events.
Taking advantage of a trickycourse-set arranged by one ofher coaches, Fischbacher navi-gated her way down Franz’s Runin 1 minute, 20.14 seconds.
“It was really crazy,”Fischbacher said. “It was a real-ly straight course and you had topush from start to finish.”
Tina Maze of Slovenia took asurprise silver, 0.49 secondbehind, and Vonn had to settlefor bronze, 0.74 second back.
While many of the pre-racefavorites struggled with a sharpright turn midway down, Vonnmade it through that sectionwithout a problem. But then shelost nearly half a second on thebottom section of the course.
“Once I got past those diffi-cult sections, I kind of backed offthe gas pedal,” Vonn said. “I feltlike I just didn’t ski as aggres-sively as I could have, and I thinkthat’s where I lost the race.”
Vonn celebrated as if she hadwon, raising her arms in tri-umph, then was relaying acourse report via a two-way radioup to her teammates still at thestart when Fischbacher beat her.
Fischbacher looked like shedidn’t believe it when sheglanced at the scoreboard uponcrossing the line, backing intothe safety mattresses lining thefinish area and nearly fallingover.
“It’s just a great feeling,”Fischbacher said.
Vonn, who lives and trains inVail, Colo., won gold in the down-hill to open her Olympics andthen wiped out in the slalom legof the super-combined.Depending on how her bruisedright shin holds up, theAmerican still has two eventsremaining at the VancouverGames giant slalom and slalom.
Vonn was hurt Feb. 2, whenshe tumbled and slammed thetop of her right boot against hershin during pre-Olympic prac-tice in Austria. While otherskiers were free-skiing thecourse Friday, Vonn took a com-plete day off to give her shinmore time to heal.
1.On your Sunday afternoon, take in an opera. The Palm will be screening an encoretransmission of “Der Rosenkavalier” from the Metropolitan Opera House at 4 p.m.
Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for students.
2.Local acting company SquidShow Theatre presents the opening performance of “BigLove” on Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Ah Haa. This is theatre like you are not used to. It’s
free, call 708-3934 to make a reservation. SquidShow will also perform this Charles Meeplay on Monday, as well as Feb. 28 and March 1.
3.Monday night is movie night at the Wilkinson Public Library. On the marquee:“Johnny Mercer, the Dream’s On Me.” Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Mercer’s
birth with this documentary. It’s at 6 p.m., free.
Planet Picks
Gus Kenworthy as he appeared in an ad for Smith. [Photo by Brian Becker]
SPORTS
Young Telluride pro sweeps three events
By BRITTANNY HAVARDPlanet Contributor
Named the eighth bestskier in the worldunder 18 by Powdermagazine, TelluriderGus Kenworthy is liv-
ing up to his press. Proving age is just a number,
young park skier Kenworthy, 18,demonstrated his prowess bytaking first in three ski eventsthis month.
He’s also shown he knowshow to make a comeback. Due toan injury, he missed the first twoevents this year of the three-event Dew tour.
“I was actually feeling badlyfor him,” said Gus’ father, PeterKenworthy. “He broke his collar-bone and was out for twomonths.”
Gus pushed his injury — hisdad thought prematurely — tocome back for the third tourevent at Mt. Snow Feb. 7, whereKenworthy struggled in the firsttwo events, failing to qualify ineither the pipe or slopestyle.
However, during the big airevent, his last chance,Kenworthy walked away withfirst place with his cork 900 nosegrab to true tail grab. In lay-man’s terms, Kenworthy spuntwo-and-a-half times and shiftedhis hand from grabbing the tip of
his skis to the tail of his skis.Kenworthy made this extremelydifficult maneuver look effort-less.
Winning big air, said dadPeter, “really re-charged him. Itwas really encouraging,”
Kenworthy then went on tothe Aspen/Snowmass Open, Feb.12 and 13, one of the largestopen events in the world, secondonly to the European FreeskiOpen in Laax, Switzerland.
In Aspen, he swept the pipeand slopestyle, winning over$10,000 in prize money.
A solid run with stylish grabshelped Gus nab the win in pipe.In slopestyle, his winning runwent like this: “left foot forwardK-Fed on the top rail, switch 630on 270 out of the gap to downbox, 360 nose tap over the hitch-ing post, 450 on 630 out of therainbow rail, kangaroo flip overthe first table, switch right 720mute, into a switch dub cork1080 Japan.”
Out of all the recent wins,which victory does Kenworthyfind the sweetest?
“Definitely the Aspen Open,”Kenworthy said. “I drove up withmy roommate Colby Ward. Wewent up there and pipe was first.I train most heavily forslopestyle, but when I got to thepipe I was feeling it. I was hop-
ing to place top five in the pipeand top three in slopestyle. Towalk away winning both pipeand slopestyle was incredible.Someone told me the last timesomeone came away with bothwas Tanner Hall in 1998, so towin this was incredible.”
Kenworthy moved toTellurider when he was 2, andtook right to skiing.
“I grew up skiing moguls inTelluride Ski School,” Kenworthysaid. “I wanted to go pro.”
As a teenager, Kenworthy haspractically lived in Telluride’sterrain park. Eventually, peopletook notice. And, two years ago,Kenworthy got what he wanted.
“CoreUPT Skis came to mewith a contract and a salary, sothat’s when I technically becamepro,” he said.
He now lives mostly in thehigh-flying world of pro skiing,sponsored by CoreUPT Skis,Smith Optics and Helmets,Empire Gloves and Skullcandy.
Consumed by skiing, hespends the winters inBreckinridge, which he thinkshas the best terrain park. Hekeeps one foot in Telluride, com-pleting his courses for TellurideHigh School online, his teachersgrading him via the Internet.And on June 4, graduation day,
OLYMPICS
AMERICANSDOMINATING
SLOPESMiller, Weibrecht
medal behindSvindal in super-G
By HOWARD FENDRICHAP Sports Writer
WHISTLER, BritishColumbia (AP) óLeave it to BodeMiller to bring alittle trash talk to
Alpine skiing.After his silver and Andrew
Weibrecht’s bronze behind win-ner Aksel Lund Svindal ofNorway in Friday’s super-G,Miller was asked to explain whythe Americans have been domi-nating the slopes with sixmedals through four races atthese Olympics.
Miller smiled that here-comes-a-good-one smile of hisand began, “Aside from the factthat we’re just much better thaneverybody else ...”
Can’t really argue with theguy.
With six events still to go, theUnited States already has col-lected its most Alpine medals ata single Winter Games, toppingthe five at Sarajevo in 1984.Norway is the only other countrywith more than one medal so far,thanks entirely to Svindal, whoalso got a silver in the downhill.
Indeed, that first medal easedhis mind before Friday’s race.Standing in the start gate, withMiller and Weibrecht holdingthe day’s top two times to thatpoint, Svindal thought to him-self, “You already have a silverand it can only get better, soenjoy this and give it all youhave. Don’t hold anything back.”
He finished in 1 minute, 30.34seconds, 0.28 faster than Millerof Franconia, N.H., who gaveaway time at the bottom of thecourse and acknowledged he“ran out of gas a little bit.”Weibrecht of Lake Placid, N.Y.,never before fared better than10th in a significant race butwound up only 0.03 of a secondslower than Miller.
“If you don’t watch ski racingevery weekend, you might missmy name,” Weibrecht dead-panned. “It definitely feels goodto establish myself.”See SSKKIIEERR,, Page 30
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Kenworthy plans to walk withthe rest of his Telluride class.
Gus’s parents, Pip of Pip’sFine and Funky Consignment,and Peter, Executive Director ofMountainfilm, are elated at theirson’s success.
“He won $10,000 last week!We were so excited, we took himout to dinner,” said Pip, eagerlypointing out a glossy photo of herprodigy in Powder magazine.
Attending as many localevents as they can, Gus canalways rely on his parents sup-port.
“My parents are so support-ive. They’re behind me 100 per-cent,” Gus said. And, of all themountains Kenworthy shreds,Telluride is still no. 1. “Tellurideis home to me and it means I amout skiing with my friends. It
sounds so bad, but I’m just goingto say it: my favorite part of themountain is the terrain park,probably, because that’s what Ido.”
After his recent success, Guswill head to Switzerland for theEuropean Freeski Open in Laaxin hopes of coming out on top.Then it’s on to the Dumont Cupin Sunday River, Vt., the WorldSki Invitational in Whistler andthe Jon Olsson Invitational inSweden.
Kenworthy’s advice to aspir-ing pros: “Believe in yourself anddon’t be scared of failure. Someof these guys have beenimmensely successful with it[skiing professionally]. Rightnow I am just having fun anddoing what I love, and making alittle money at it.”
SSKKIIEERR, from page 32
Young Telluride pro
NBA
McGrady to start in Knicksdebut Saturday
By BRIAN MAHONEYAP Basketball Writer
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP)Tracy McGrady will be inthe starting lineup in his
New York Knicks debut onSaturday night againstOklahoma City.
Coach Mike D’Antoni said hedoesn’t know what the completelineup will be, but it will includeMcGrady. The Knicks acquiredthe seven-time All-Star onThursday in a three-team dealwith Houston and Sacramento.
McGrady played only limitedminutes in six games for theRockets this season after comingback from microfracture kneesurgery. He said he hopes he canplay 25 to 30 minutes Saturdayin what will be his first actionsince Dec. 23.
“Physically I feel good, butthen again I haven’t played in ayear and a half,” McGrady said.“Even the eight minutes I wasplaying, you really can’t get afeel of how long I can play. Butyeah, I think I’m ready to go.”
D’Antoni wasn’t sure either,since McGrady was limited toonly about 7 minutes a game thisseason after surgery lastFebruary. The swingman hasplayed 41 games over the lasttwo seasons.
“I asked him about everythingand he says ‘I have no idea,’”D’Antoni said. “We’ll talk aboutit during the game and there’sno restrictions on him from amedical standpoint, only how hefeels and the way he looks andall that. But he’ll communicatewith me when he wants to comeout.”
The Knicks held their firstmorning shootaround at homethis season so their new acquisi-tions could become more famil-iar with the offense. They alsobrought in point guard SergioRodriguez in the three-teamtrade, and acquired EddieHouse, Bill Walker and J.R.Giddens in a deal that sent NateRobinson to Boston.
New York Knick guard Tracy McGrady, for-merly of the Houston Rockets. [APPhoto/John Raoux, File]
