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Vail Daily 11/01/2012

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U.S. Ski Team member Michael Ankeny leads a group of skiers Wednesday along the slopes of Copper Mountain. The U.S. team began speed training there Wednesday and will commence technical training today in Vail at the Golden Peak Competition Center.

Golden Peak training beginning today U.S. Ski Team tech racers hit Vail By John LaConte SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

While you won’t see superstars Lindsey Vonn and Ted Ligety here quite yet, local training has commenced at Golden Peak and Copper Mountain, with the speedsters training downhill at Copper and the technical specialists hitting gates right here at Golden Peak starting this morning. Copper Mountain hosted a group of U.S. Ski Team members, including Olympic bronze medalist Andrew Wiebrecht and Nor-Am overall winner Julia Ford, on Wednesday for the opening of the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper; today, technical racers, including Will Brandenburg and David Chodounsky, will head over to Golden Peak Competition Center to begin slalom and giant-slalom training. The Wednesday opening of the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper is a bench-

mark accomplishment for the new downhill training facility, now in its second season. Last year, USSA gave a glowing endorsement of Copper’s improvements to the former training runs — which were still used by the U.S. Ski Team — saying the new, longer and steeper slopes made it the best November downhill training center in the world. However, last year, uncooperative weather and other delays postponed the opening until mid-November. “Being here now is a huge advantage for us,” Ford said. “We’ll have top-to-bottom training runs the whole month of November.” With Copper as an optimal speed training facility for the U.S. Ski Team, Golden Peak in Vail represents the other side of that coin, with its world-class technical training grounds. In anticipation of the U.S. Ski Team’s arrival here this week, workers in Vail have been tirelessly prepping the multimilliondollar facility. Ski & Snowboard Club Vail Operations Manager C.B. Bechtel is among those hard at work. “On Monday, we started grooming the

hill out, getting the snow where we need it and getting a good surface on it,” Bechtel said. “We’ve been blowing snow at every opportunity we can since Oct. 1.” Bechtel said approximately 70 ski teams will visit Golden Peak over the next month or so, with more than 20 national teams included. “Twenty-two to 25 different nations will be sending their actual national team to train,” he said. “In November, every top ski racer in the world will train on Golden Peak. So if you love ski racing, this is the place to be.” With the only men’s World Cup event in the U.S. also being right here in the Vail Valley at Beaver Creek, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, ski team members such as David Chodounsky feel right at home training at Golden Peak. “It’s awesome. You get the home feeling, you don’t have to feel as much like you’re traveling out of a suitcase, and you can watch football on Sunday,” Chodounsky said. “We were always in Vail for races in high school, so it’s very familiar for me.” Chodounsky may present a special case for feeling right at home here in Colorado,

since the Crested Butte resident grew up skiing the familiar slopes of the Centennial State, but he’s not alone in enjoying more of the comforts of home while training locally. “Anytime we’re in the U.S., it’s like home territory, which just makes the whole process a lot easier,” Marco Sullivan said. “And at Beaver Creek, the great thing is having the fans there and the family and friends. ... Whether you win or lose, you’re still going to go have a beer at the Coyote (Cafe).” Ski Team press officer Doug Haney said all-star GS skier Ted Ligety feels pretty comfortable in Levi, Finland, the site of the next World Cup event, a slalom on Nov. 11. Ligety will stay in Levi through that date before heading back here to Vail, where he’ll begin training at Golden Peak. “Obviously, he’s skiing pretty well right now,” Haney said. Ligety won the first World Cup event of the season, a GS in Soelden, Austria, by 2.73 seconds, the largest margin of victory in that event in 34 years. Ligety is expected to be preceded in his arrival to Vail by Lindsey Vonn, who is scheduled to get to the valley Nov. 9.

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Friday, November 2, 2012 From left, U.S. Ski Team members Will Brandenburg, David Chodounsky, Michael Ankeny and Nolan Kasper ride the Riva Bahn Express Thursday morning in Vail. The slalom specialists will train at Golden Peak for about a week before heading to Levi, Finland, for a World Cup event on November 11.

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was scheduled for that night), racers there said the snow was feeling good nonetheless. “It’s good snow, and if the injection works out and it stays cold, we should be able to get some good, consistent training while we’re here,” said Kasper, a World Cup podium finisher in slalom. “Training this early here in the U.S. should be an advantage for us.” Brandenburg, who’s slalom run in the Super Combined at the 2010 Olympics was the second fastest overall, said the next week at Golden Peak will be a bit of a prep camp for the technical racers. “Right now we just want to start skiing solid, feel comfortable in the gates and get ready to go on the World Cup,” Brandenburg said. “We’ll get probably six days to prep on snow before [the World Cup slalom in Levi, Finland, Nov. 11], and we’ll get it all here.” Before Golden Peak was available, the ski team’s slalom skiers got a few days on Loveland. They took Wednesday mostly off, save a few freeskiing runs at Copper. “We’ll go three or four days in a row and then take a day off,” said Brandenburg. “We shoot for around six slalom runs normally.” Brandenburg and his teammates trained

on an overlength course Thursday, which is longer than a regulation World Cup course. “The overlength course gets the legs burning more,” Brandenburg said. “This time of year they feel good, you just got out of working out all summer.” But they’ll be doing plenty of working out here, as well, using the facilities at Cascade Resort and Spa. In addition to the ski team’s first day on the slopes of Vail this season, Thursday was also a first day back to work for some Vail Resorts employees. For ticket scanner and ski racing fan Kirk Younkins, it was a pleasant day on the job. “I just love being out here, love watching these guys train,” said Younkins, who’s on a first-name basis with the athletes. “You get to know what people look like; I can recognize most of the U.S. Ski Team, as well as the SSCV kids by their faces.” Brandenburg, Chodounsky, Ankeny and Kasper leave Vail on Thursday for Levi, crossing paths with Lindsey Vonn who is expected to arrive Nov. 9 and stay through the U.S. Ski Team 2013 Alpine Ski Team Announcement in Vail on Nov. 15. The ski team announced Thursday that Vonn will be joined by fellow Olympic gold medalists Bode Miller and Julia Mancuso at the event. Visit usskiteam.com for more information.

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Michael Ankeny, hailing from the same ski program in Buck Hill, Minn., as Lindsey Vonn, carves down Golden Peak during a training session on Thursday on Vail Mountain.

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skiers an opportunity to ski on a hard surface that’s been injected with water for optimal race conditions. U.S. Ski Team members Will Brandenburg, David Chodounsky, Michael Ankeny and Nolan Kasper were joined by 10 or so FIS-level skiers from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail for slalom training on the sections of the course entitled “BooBoo” and “Afterthought,” while Ski & Snowboard Club Vail workers worked on installing bnetting on the lower section of the course, entitled “Main Arena.” While the surface hadn’t actually received its first water injection as of Thursday morning (the injection U.S. Ski Team, page A29

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SSCV party a whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who of U.S. Ski Team Annual event showcases alumni By John LaConte SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

Ski and Snowboard Club Vail hosted its annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration of Winterâ&#x20AC;? event Saturday night at the Sebastian Hotel in Vail, a gathering that recognized current U.S. Ski Team athletes who have came through the program, as well as the many donors and fundraisers who have helped the club get those athletes where they are now. The cocktail party-style event was part of Ski and Snowboard Club Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual fundraising effort, which includes the recent Ski Swap and several other events the club holds in its continuing goal to create a gap between the various program fees and what it actually costs SSCV to deliver those programs. Recognized U.S. Ski Team athletes included alpine skier Abby Ghent, an Edwards native who joined SSCV at age 5 and went on to become top five overall in four North America Cup categories; Aaron Blunck, a Youth Olympic Games bronze medalist in ski halfpipe last season; Paula Moltzan, a junior bronze medalist in the U.S. Alpine Championships; Vail native Katharine Irwin, the 2011 J2 National

Champion in giant slalom and super-G; Alex Ferreria, a USASA Nationals silver medalist in ski halfpipe; Vail native Sylvan Ellefson, a USSA SuperTour champion; Vail native Heidi Kloser, the 2010 FIS World Cup Moguls Rookie of the Year; Will Gregorak, the highest-ranking U.S. Alpine Team member from SSCV besides Lindsey Vonn, and a twotime Europa Cup slalom second place finisher; and Jen Hudak, a five-time X Games gold medalist halfpipe and slopestyle skier who came over to SSCV with superstar coach Elana Chase a few years ago. The keynote speaker of the evening was Glen Davis, the SSCV Board of Trustees president and regional president of Alpine Bank. SSCV executive director Aldo Radamus described Davis as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the most important supporters of Ski and Snowboard Club Vailâ&#x20AC;? through his support of the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraising efforts and his position on SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board. Davis spoke in a tone of amazement at how far the club has come in the last decade, citing the partnership with Eagle County Schools to form the first public ski academy of its kind with the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy and the development of the best November technical training facility in the world at Golden Peak as examples of SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position as the top in its class. Elite members of the U.S. and Canadian national ski teams are currently training at Golden Peak, with

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From left, U.S. Ski Team member Abby Ghent, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail executive director Aldo Radamus and U.S. Ski Team members Paula Moltzan, Katharine Irwin, Alex Ferreira, Heidi Kloser, Will Gregorak and Jen Hudak. roughly two dozen other national ski teams expected to visit the facility in the next month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a lot of organizations, those kinds of decisions come from the board ... but in this organization, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite work that way,â&#x20AC;? said Davis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was Aldo (Radamus) who came to our board meeting and said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think I can establish a partnership with Eagle County School

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Go big or go home. Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) can now go big after opening its Acrobatic Center last weekend. SSCV alumna and U.S. Freestyle Ski Team member Heidi Kloser and five-time X Games gold medalist Jen Hudak cut the ribbon for the facility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really wish this facility was around when I went to school here,â&#x20AC;? said Kloser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This new edition to the campus will allow athletes to train in a safer environment for the sports they love. Flipping through the air and landing in a pool of foam blocks is certainly much safer than going out on the slopes and trying a trick for the first time.â&#x20AC;? The facility, which is on SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus, took time and money to build with help from donors and cooperation from the school district. The $90,000 facility has been in many minds since the opening of the school. SSCV executive director Aldo Radamus and freeski program director Elana Chase have envisioned this facility since the school opened in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started lobbying for this room to be built two years ago,â&#x20AC;? Chase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all knew that the shape of it, the natural light, the high ceilings and its quiet nature would work perfectly for a trampoline room. It really is too perfect of a room for a facility like this. When I first saw this room, I envisioned it exactly the way it is in here now.â&#x20AC;? SSCV worked in cooperation with contractors, the school district and building inspectors to safely set up the facility. As it stands now, the facility will remain as a private training facility through the winter. However, plans are in the works for SSCV to host public training camps during the summer.

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VAIL — The U.S. Ski Team alpine racers kicked off their season Thursday the right way — with hundreds of cheering fans. A large crowd gathered at Vail Square in Lionshead to hear the announcement of the ski team’s alpine A, B, C and development teams, a group of about 40 of the fastest skiers in America, including Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Mikaela Shiffrin and Andrew Weibrecht. The concertlike atmosphere saw young fans arriving early in order to get closer to the stage, then politely waiting through several videos and speeches for the ski team’s arrival and their chance to get photos and autographs with the athletes. Their patience was rewarded with frequent swag giveaways, including hats, T-shirts, socks, stickers of all shapes and sizes, Lindsey Vonn posters, Birds of Prey World Cup posters and large metal Audi R8 toy cars. Between segments, host Uncle E shouted “Who’s fired up?” before shooting T-shirts out of a cannon into the crowd. “They don’t want to hear from me,” Vail Mayor Andy Daily said after a quick speech, adding that he was trying to make it short and sweet in order to let the fans at the ski team. And while his speech was less than a minute, he cut to the heart of the celebration with a salute to ski racing in Vail. “Vail has hosted more World Cup events than any other venue in the Western Hemisphere. Vail is racing. Vail is skiing!” he shouted. United States Ski and Snowboard Association president Bill Marolt also spoke fondly of ski racing’s history in Vail. “The thing I think that is really cool about Vail, and the reason it has such tremendous racing heritage and history is because of the guys that founded it,” Marolt said. “Peter Seibert, Morrie Shepard and all those guys that came here in

ABOVE: Will Robbins, 11, center, catches

one of many items thrown to the crowd as Ethan Maiden, 11, right, reaches for it during the U.S. Ski Team announcement on Thursday at the Arrabelle in Lionshead. The event organizers handed out swag to the eager crowd, including hats, socks, goggles and a helmet signed by Julia Mancuso. LEFT: U.S. Ski Team member Bode

Miller, left, shares a little-known fact about himself with former U.S. Ski Team member Doug Lewis, Zoe Livran and the rest of the crowd during the announcement of the 2012 U.S. Ski Team on Thursday at the Arrabelle in Lionshead.

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the early days and believed in ski racing and believed that ski racing could make a difference in a resort. And it’s clear to me that it has with what we have here, from the past 50 years and ultimately what’s gonna happen in 2015.” Among the many young fans who politely waited though the speeches were Ski & Snowboard Club Vail members Austin Obourn, Emma Hall, Wyatt Hall, Shane Cole, Matt Macaluso and Zoe Livran, who were not only waiting to see the athletes, but to interview them. The group’s academic level and ability to keep and maintain a strong journal earned them the chance to ask anyone on the team anything they wanted onstage, in front of the crowd. Zoe Livran asked Bode Miller to share something nobody knew about him, to which Miller replied with a story of how he was married. “Our only witness was a cat, and that’s our family right now,” said Miller. “So I’m a cat person. I don’t know if anybody knows that. I’m a dog person too, but mostly a cat person.” The crowd went wild. Other interesting pieces of information revealed throughout the evening included the fact that Mikaela Shiffrin still doesn’t have her driver’s license, and that Robby Kelley enjoys naked bungy jumping. The U.S Ski Team continues its training at Copper Mountain and Vail’s Golden Peak this week. Next week, the women head to Aspen while the men head to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada, for World Cup action.

The newly announced 2012 U.S. Ski Team poses for a photo at the end of its announcement event Thursday at the Arrabelle in Lionshead.

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A pair of Summit High School athletes signed national letters of intent to continue their athletic endeavors in college Wednesday afternoon. Dylan Mitchell will play golf at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs while Olya Aden signed a letter to swim for Western State Colorado University in Gunnison. Attending the signing were Mitchell’s parents, Scott and Lori Mitchell, left, and Aden’s parents Marcus and Pat Aden. Sitting next to Aden is her swim coach, Jenny Wischmeyer.

Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey named MVPs By Ronald Blum AP SPORTS WRITER

NEW YORK — Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award on Thursday after becoming baseball’s first Triple Crown winner in 45 years, and San Francisco’s Buster Posey was voted the National League honor. Cabrera received 22 of 28 firstplace votes and 362 points from the AL panel of Baseball Writers’ Association of America to easily beat out Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout, who had six firsts and 281 points. Trout was voted AL Rookie of the Year earlier in the week. Posey recovered from a devastating leg injury that cut short his 2011 season, became the first catcher in 70

years to win the NL batting title and helped San Francisco win its second World Series title in three seasons. He got 27 of 32 firsts and 422 points from the NL panel, outdistancing 2011 winner Ryan Braun of Milwaukee, who was second with 285 points. Cabrera hit .330 with 44 homers and 139 RBIs to become the first Triple Crown winner since Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. The last four Triple Crown winners have been voted MVP, including Mickey Mantle in 1956 and Frank Robinson in 1966. Cabrera also led the league with a .606 slugging percentage for the AL champion Tigers. He became the second straight Detroit player voted MVP and was the first Venezuelan to earn the honor. Before the season, he switched

from first base to third to make way for Prince Fielder, signing as a free agent. The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, Posey set career highs with a .336 average, 24 homers and 103 RBIs for the World Series champion Giants. His 2011 season was cut short by a collision with the Marlins’ Scott Cousins on May 25 that resulted in a fractured bone in Posey’s lower left leg and three torn ankle ligaments. Posey, the fifth overall pick in the 2008 amateur draft, won the NL batting title after teammate Melky Cabrera requested a rules change that disqualified him. Cabrera, who hit .346, missed the final 45 games of the regular-season while serving a suspension for a positive testosterone test and would have won the batting crown if the rule hadn’t been changed.

VAIL — The U.S. Ski Team alpine racers kicked off their season Thursday the right way: With hundreds of cheering fans. A large crowd gathered at Arrabelle Square in Lionshead to hear the announcement of the ski team’s alpine A, B, C and the development teams, a group of about 40 of the fastest skiers in America including Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Mikaela Shiffrin and Andrew Weibrecht. Lindsey Vonn did not attend the ceremony though she was released from the hospital Wednesday. Details of her illness remain unclear and there is no indication of when she will return to skiing. Vonn’s publicist, Lewis Kay, recently said the four-time overall World Cup champion and Olympic downhill gold medalist was “awaiting results from diagnostic testing for severe intestinal pain.” Before her illness, Vonn was set to be among the skiers showing up for the festivities in Vail, where she lives. Without her, the concert-like atmosphere saw young fans arriving early in order to get closer to the stage, then politely waiting through several videos and speeches for the ski team’s arrival and their chance to get photos and autographs with the athletes. Their patience was rewarded with frequent swag giveaways. “They don’t want to hear from me,” Vail Mayor Andy Daily said after a quick speech, saying he was deliberately trying to make it short and sweet in order to let the fans at the ski team. And while his speech was less than a minute, he cut to the heart of the celebration with a salute to ski racing in Vail. “Vail has hosted more World Cup events than any other venue in the Western Hemisphere, Vail is racing, Vail is skiing!” he shouted. United States Ski and Snowboard Association president Bill Marolt also spoke fondly of ski racing’s history in Vail. “The thing I think that is really cool about Vail, and the reason it has such tremendous racing heritage and history is because of the guys that founded it,” said Marolt. “Peter Seibert, Morrie Shepard and all those guys that came here in the early days and believed in ski racing and believed that ski racing could make a difference in a resort. And it’s clear to me that it has with what we have here, from the past 50 years and ultimately what’s gonna happen in 2015.” Zoe Livran asked Bode Miller to share something nobody knew about him, to which Miller replied with a story of how he was married. “Our only witness was a cat, and that’s our family right now,” said Miller. “So I’m a cat person, I don’t know if anybody knows that. I’m a dog person too, but mostly a cat person.” The crowd went wild. Other interesting pieces of information that were revealed throughout the evening included the fact that Mikaela Shiffrin still doesn’t have her driver’s licence, and Robby Kelley enjoys naked bungee jumping. The U.S Ski Team continues its training at Copper Mountain and Vail’s Golden Peak Competition Center this week. Next week, the women head to Aspen while the men head to Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada, for World Cup action.

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Hey folks, it’s Nov. 17 and Eagle Valley’s still playing football. As former Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen used to say, “How about that?” It’s Round Two of state playoffs as the Metro West champion, Conifer, comes calling on the Devils at Hot Stuff Stadium at 2 p.m. This feels right, people. Until Eagle Valley went off and beat Frederick last week — kids, these days — I actually had covered the Devils’ last playoff win back in 2005 (Cherokee Trail, 31-14). For the first half of my career at the Vail Daily — I started in 1997 — this was the norm: football in Gypsum in November. This has been a CHRIS FREUD fun team to watch. My feel was about 5-5. (I can assure you all that after about two minutes of watching Battle MountainD’Evelyn in Zero Week, I made my call on our local issue.) This looks like the Eagle Valley of “old” — a big o-line, several backs with speed to burn and a defense that makes other teams go “ouch.” This crew put in the hours you need during the offseason, and the Devils are reaping the rewards. The Devils have also shown some serious class this year with the “Alex Affair.” This team and community poured their hearts out and got stomped for their troubles. (I’m still in shock that someone would actually make up that garbage.) That could have done this team in, especially after the Palisade and Rifle losses. It would not have been hard to see these guys mailing it in at Frederick. Instead, the Devils showed a lot of heart and talent, and swatted Frederick aside. Good on everyone. Let’s keep it rolling. News and notes: • Common opponents: The Lobos beat Glenwood Springs, 42-19, at Stubler during Zero Week. Eagle Valley also won at Glenwood, 42-28. Both teams got smacked by Rifle, but, well, the Bears are No. 1 for a reason. Eagle Valley pasted Arvada, 68-14, while the Lobos knocked off the Bulldogs, 42-23. Do note there, that the Devils knocked Arvada quarterback John Mar-

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Frederick quarterback Jaron Balman is pressured by Eagle Valley’s Ty LaFramboise last week at Frederick. Balman threw an incompletion on the play. The Devils host Conifer today at 2 p.m. in Gypsum. tinez out of the game early, and he was back in Week 10 to face Conifer. • Conifer finished 5-1 atop the Metro West, defeating Lutheran, 34-8, in Week 5. If you’re looking for a serious stretch of transitivity, Lutheran went on to lose to Steamboat Springs later in the season. Hard to judge much from that. • Conifer likes to run, run and run some more. The Lobos feature two 1,000-yard plus backs in Matthew McClintock and A.J. Eleniewski; they’ve combined for 30 touchdowns. Quarterback Thomas Kim also appears mobile, with 397 yards of his own. • The Lobos will pass enough to keep a defense honest. Kim is 60-for-121 for 697 yards. • Defensively, Drake Weber appears to be a handful. He has 13 sacks and dumped

Northridge’s quarterback three times last week. Brandon Payer leads the Lobos with 111 tackles. • OK, you all thought I was kidding about how the football postseason bracket can go boom in a hurry. Now do you believe me? Last week, No. 1 Rifle held serve, blasting Erie, 42-0. (Ryan Moeller ran for four touchdowns and had a picksix.) No. 2 Discovery Canyon is out after a 2414 loss to Pueblo Central. I also heard that No. 3 Frederick lost to somebody. No. 4 The Classical Academy? Bye, bye. Delta smacked TCA, 21-0. The first reason why this happened is that wild-card points are just not an accurate indicator of a team’s strengths. The formula works nicely in keeping out teams who play a cupcake nonconference sched-

ule. It does not work well in taking into account the strength of a conference. And that would be point number two. The Western Slope can play football, not that anyone around here doesn’t know that. The Devils are the fourth team out of the SEC of 3A football and they tattooed a Front Range league champion, Frederick, 33-8. The other quarterfinal on Eagle Valley’s side of the bracket is No. 15 Pueblo Central at No. 10 Silver Creek. (If you’re wondering, Eagle Valley lost both coin flips and is on the road, so “Go Silver Creek.” Longmont’s better than Pueblo, people.) On the left side of the bracket, Rifle will beat No. 8 Roosevelt, and Delta (No. 13) will have a shot at No. 5 Pueblo East, especially because the game’s at Delta. See you at the game.

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Not only was Friday Opening Day for Vail, it was also a perfect day for the first giant slalom race of the year. The Secret Race took place as a qualifier for the afternoon’s Audi Ski Challenge. With 66 female competitors and 92 male competitors ranging in ages from 9 to 24, the secret is clearly out and this race is here to stay. “The Secret Race provides all of the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail athletes an opportunity to get some early competition against each other”, said Rika Moore, SSCV alpine youth program director. “We invited a few other racers from teams around the area. We invited some of the top racers from Breckenridge, as well as Steamboat. So there will definitely be some great athletes out there.”

Chris Acosta, 22, from the University of New Mexico, won the Audi Challenge for the male division, and Erika Ghent, a SSCV athlete, won the women’s division. “It is motivating having the format as a dual GS for the Audi Challenge,” Acosta said. “It really comes down to the best time as the winner, but it really pushes you to race someone next to you in the other lane just a few yards away. I hope to use the plane tickets to fly my parents out to Reno. They haven’t seen me ski race in over four years.” The winners of the Audi Ski Challenge solidified a place at the 2012/13 U.S. Alpine Championships in Squaw Valley, Calif. On top of landing a spot at the championships, the winners won an official 2012/13 U.S. Ski Team Jacket, three nights lodging at the U.S. Championships, lift tickets for the event and even a flight to and from Reno, Nev.

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VAIL — Lindsey Vonn is feeling better and hopes to return to the slopes this weekend. Hospitalized because of an intestinal illness, the four-time overall World Cup champion might even resume her training program next week, her publicist Lewis Kay wrote in an email Friday night. Vonn was released from a hospital in Colorado two days ago. She was experiencing severe intestinal discomfort when she was admitted. On Facebook, Vonn posted: “Finally starting to get healthy again! Looks like I had some infection in my tummy but everyone has been taking good care of me. Thanks for all the well wishes! I hope to get back on skis soon, I miss the snow! Xoxo Lv.” If she’s healthy enough, Vonn’s next scheduled races are the giant slalom and slalom in Aspen on Thanksgiving weekend, followed by speed events in Lake Louise, Alberta. Vonn recently skipped a slalom race in Levi, Finland.

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Welcome to The Show, Paula. Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s Paula Moltzan is a late addition to the U.S. Ski Team’s roster for next weekend’s Aspen Winternational World Cup event. Lila Lapanja, Foreste Peterson and Moltzan had a timetrial slalom event recently for the spot. Moltzan is no stranger to the Golden Peak Race Arena, and it certainly showed. Moltzan had the fastest time during the time trials, and she will now be going to Aspen to compete in her first World Cup event for slalom. Moltzan came out from Minnesota to Vail to train with Ski & Snowboard Club Vail in 2010 and has been competing well ever since. Moltzan was with Ski & Snowboard Club Vail for one year before she landed a spot on the U.S. Development Team. Last summer, Moltzan was recovering from a shoulder surgery. She had her third shoulder surgery and was unable to train on snow during the summer. Most of her time was spent at the Center of Excellence in Park City, Utah, getting strong. “This is the first season that she will be starting out fully healthy in three years,” said Paula’s father, Mark. Moltzan has been training with Seth McAdams, who has fine-tuned her skiing abilities. “I really trust Seth. He has been doing great things,” Mark said. “Seth texted me during the time trials and said that they were going to select her for the World Cup. Shortly after that, I got a call from Paula who was in tears of joy and out of breath from finishing a run down Golden Peak. To get an athlete to this stage takes a whole village to polish all the necessary skills. Hats off to Aldo Radamus and Dan Stripp at Ski & Snowboard Club Vail for bringing her to the next level. We are bubbling with pride and know that she is capable of doing really well.”

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WACO, Texas — Glasco Martin ran for three touchdowns, Lache Seastrunk had 185 yards rushing with an 80-yard score and Baylor again upset the BCS picture with a late-season victory, beating No. 2 Kansas State, 52-24, Saturday night. A week after the Wildcats (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) took over the No. 1 spot in the BCS standings following Alabama’s loss, another team will get its chance on top. And undefeated Notre Dame could get its championship shot. K-State quarterback Collin Klein may be a Heisman Trophy front-runner no more after throwing three interceptions while being pressured and harassed all night by Baylor (5-5, 2-5). EUGENE, ORE.

No. 14 Stanford 17, No. 1 Oregon 14, OT Jordan Williamson hit a 37-yard field goal in overtime and No. 14 Stanford upset No. 1 Oregon 17-14, denying the Ducks a chance to clinch the Pac-12 North and derailing their straight shot at the BCS championship game. If both Stanford and Oregon finish with wins in their final games next weekend, both will finish with one conference loss, which means Stanford will win the head-to-head matchup and go to the Pac-12 championship game for a chance to play in the Rose Bowl.

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VAIL — Even before Vail’s official opening Friday, Golden Peak was so busy with ski traffic last week it looked like Christmas weekend. Only there was one major difference: The skiers on Golden Peak were considerably more skilled than the ones you’ll find on the normal busy day. National ski teams from the U.S., Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland all shared the slopes last week at the Golden Peak Competition Center for slalom, giant slalom and super-G training, with as many as 150 athletes training on the same slopes at the same time. It may sound hectic, but for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail operations manager C.B. Bechtel, it was just another November day on the job. “Golden Peak has the best November technical training facility in the world, so everyone wants to be here,” Bechtel said. “We start taking reservations in March. ... The majority of the booking is done by mid-July.” Bechtel works relentlessly during November to coordinate all of the action, starting his day at 5:45 a.m. and finishing at 6:30 or 7 p.m. “We have a certain number of time slots per day. People tell me, ‘I want slalom, I want superG, or I want slalom,’ and then there’s four 2.5-hour sessions per day and we map out who goes where,” Bechtel said. “At 5 p.m., we have a meeting where a captain from every team comes in and we’ll show them the plan for tomorrow and

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give them their lift tickets. Every time a new session starts, I go to the top of the hill and make sure everyone’s setting in their lanes, and when I feel confident they’re in their lanes, I go down the hill to another section of the course and make sure everyone there is set properly in their lanes. The Ski racing, page A10

VAIL — Out of the hospital just a few days, Lindsey Vonn is already back on the hill. The four-time overall World Cup champion resumed her giant slalom training Sunday as she went through a series of gates on Vail Mountain. The day before, Vonn did a little freeskiing on the mountain. She’s quickly getting back up to speed after missing time with an intestinal illness. Should she feel up for it, Vonn will go through a super-G training session today. There’s still no decision whether Vonn will take part in giant slalom and slalom races in Aspen over Thanksgiving weekend. The plan is to simply take things day by day. But this was a good start. “She didn’t lose her skills. Her skiing was right there,” U.S. women’s technical coach Roland Pfeifer said Sunday after the training session. “Obviously, she has a little lack of energy. It’s just a matter of how fast she’s able to charge her battery, talking about starting in Aspen. We go day by day. “She’s in a very good mood. She likes to be on the slope again. She’s so happy to be back. We had

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athlete presence, with Manor Vail turning its board rooms into performance centers and the Tivoli fencing off parcels in its parking garage for tuning. In addition to giving the athletes a good rate on room blocks, Manor Vail plays a bit of a game of Tetris in order to accommodate everybody. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We start working with the teams in May and June to coordinate the room blocks, which will change and shift a lot,â&#x20AC;? said Nichole Whitaker, director of sales and marketing at Manor Vail Lodge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In October, we completely transform our meeting rooms for skituning space.â&#x20AC;? Among the high-profile tuners on hand at Manor Vail is Lindsey Vonnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tech, whom Whitaker says has a nice area to himself that was formerly a closet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We basically take every single inch of free space in the property and turn

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EAGLE — Eagle is a small town where big things happen as quietly as wheels rolling across the bike path. For example: Some members of the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team spent part of the summer training for the season in Eagle Ranch before leaving for World Cup racing in Europe on Saturday. People may have noticed guys on roller skis with poles gliding vigorously around the area in recent weeks, but few residents knew the elite athletes were here. The Enterprise found out about it by a Facebook post: “Go U.S. Ski Team!! We love seeing the Cross-Country Team take off each morning for your training. We have your coffees and breakfast sandwiches for you!” reads a post on the Facebook page of HP’s Provisions. Olympic hopeful Sylvan Ellefson, 26, said it’s a great place for workouts. “Eagle Ranch has prime terrain for roller skiing. We train there about four times a week,” Sylvan said earlier this month, before he joined the U.S. Team in Finland over the weekend. Sylvan is an Edwards resident, Vail Mountain School graduate and a fulltime athlete with the 2014 Sochi Olympics in his sights. He is partly responsible for bringing the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team members to the area. That story began about 15 years ago.

Sylvan was 11 and his younger brother, Kjell, was 7 when their dad died in the mountains of Italy. “Their dad ran races around the world with a group called the Sky Runners,” said Tashina, Sylvan and Kjell’s mom. “They ran long distances at high altitude. They once ran a marathon at the base camp of Mount Everest — 17,000 feet.” Lyndon Ellefson died in 1998 when a snow bridge collapsed under him as he ran over a deep crevasse. “It was really important to me for the boys to have male role models,” Tashina said. “Someone recommended the Vail Mountain School, but we couldn’t afford it.” The boys got scholarships to VMS. They had been skiers since they were babies — Lyndon worked on Vail Mountain, where Tashina met him — but VMS made a difference, especially for Sylvan, who returned to the valley after college as an athlete for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail. Kjell is now finishing school at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is working as a photographer for a telemark ski magazine. “I was a downhill racer until I was 15,” Sylvan said. “Some friends got me to try cross-country skiing. I did both for a while and then decided I liked crosscountry better. Maybe part of that decision was because I was getting better results at Nordic skiing.” Sylvan went to Bates College, a small private school in Maine. He continued Nordic racing there and was an AllAmerican while earning a bachelor’s

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Since returning to the valley, Sylvan is back with his old coach, Dan Weiland, and coach Eric Pepper. With Weiland and a few others, Sylvan started the Elite Nordic Program at SSCV three years ago. “It was a push to get a little higherlevel racing based out of Vail,” Sylvan said. “We worked with Ski Club Vail and dubbed ourselves Team HomeGrown.” Last year, the Team HomeGrown invited other high-caliber athletes to join. Noah Hoffman, of Aspen, and Tad Elliott, of Durango, accepted the invitation. Hoffman and Elliott are U.S. Ski Team members. Other members of this year’s Team HomeGrown include Ryan Scott, Max Scrimgeour and Christian Shanley. “It’s pretty cool that half of Team HomeGrown is represented in the World Cup this year,” Sylvan said.

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VAIL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After spending the morning training at Copper, Lindsey Vonn set the pace for the new EpicMix Racing program on Tuesday at Golden Peak in Vail. Vonn was swarmed by fans upon her arrival at Golden Peak, and took a few minutes to sign autographs and pose for pictures before boarding the Riva Bahn Express. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to see all the kids out here, so excited about ski racing,â&#x20AC;? Vonn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great to meet the future generation.â&#x20AC;? One group of fans excited to get pictures with Vonn were visiting Golden Peak with Sports Club International, a race camp organization founded by Aldo Radamus, executive director of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail. Georgie Sullivan, 10, from San Francisco, and her parents, Adrianna and Bobby, are spending their first Thanksgiving in Vail after discovering the camp. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re staying with friends, Eagle-Vail local residents Fred and Kelly Pope. The Sullivans had no idea Vonn would be at Golden Peak while they were there Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty exciting to be here for this,â&#x20AC;? Bob Sullivan said. Amid all the hype surrounding Vonn, Kelly Sullivan noticed another skier her daughter would be excited to see, Maria Riesch. After swarming Vonn for a few minutes, Sullivan and her friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Monique Fellows, 11, Grace Krsul, 11, and Isabella Griepp, 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sprinted over to Riesch for a few quick photos. While Riesch was slalom training, Vonn was clearing the stubby gates on the EpicMix Racing course, setting the pace for the new Vail Resorts feature. EpicMix Racing, set to debut Dec. 15, will let you compare your times on various giant slalom courses set up at the Vail Resortsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hills to the time Vonn set at Golden Peak on Tuesday. To use EpicMix racing, guests ski up to the start gate at those courses and purchase and register for their races using a credit card or resort charge. To support Vonnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to giving back to the skiing community for future generations, Vail Resorts will donate 1 percent of all revenue to create scholarships at Ski & Snowboard Club Vail and other ski rac-

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VAIL — If you follow ski racing, or even if you don’t, by now you’ve probably heard of the U.S. Ski Team’s youngest star, Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin, a Vail native, is the youngest person ever to win a U.S. Alpine Championship event, and at 17, she’s already been on the World Cup podium twice. She had one last year, a third place at a slalom in Lienz, Austria, and her most recent podium finish came just this month in Levi, Finland, where she took third in the slalom. That was Nov. 10. Since then, she’s been on an absolute whirlwind of media sessions and training runs here in the U.S. The craziness basically began the minute she got off the plane on Nov. 12 and hasn’t slowed down since. After traveling from Finland to Munich, Munich to Frankfurt and, finally, Frankfurt to Denver on Nov. 11 and 12, Shiffrin and her parents, Avon residents who dutifully travel with her to her races, were forced to stay in Denver so Mikaela could do some media appearances in Colorado’s capital city. On Nov. 13, Mikaela did an interview in Denver before the Shiffrins drove back to Avon. Mikaela considers that a “day off.” On Nov. 14, she was back on the snow, training at Copper in the morning and doing private interviews all afternoon. On Nov. 15, Shiffrin woke up at 3:30 a.m., still jet lagged from Finland. She started skiing at 7:30 a.m. at Golden Peak, where she trained until noon. From 12:05 p.m. until 4 p.m., she was the star of a photo shoot for Barilla, one of her sponsors. By 5 p.m., she was at Vail Square in Lionshead doing more interviews and preparing a speech to make while on stage that evening at the U.S. Ski Team alpine announcement. She stayed on stage until 7 p.m. or so and was back home in Avon by 8-ish. I’ve been following Mikaela and the U.S. Ski Team around for the past few weeks, between Copper and Vail. I’ve been given fantastic access to Mikaela through the ski team’s press person, Doug Haney, and I’ve even had a chance to talk candidly with Mikaela’s mother, Eileen Shiffrin, while Mikaela trains. What I’ve witnessed is a young talent with incredible poise, both on and off the snow, who appears to be a natural for this role and all it entails. But it’s not nearly as easy as she’s making it look, and she’s receiving tremendous support along the way.

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At the Copper Mountain media session on Nov. 13, Mikaela is all business. With the confidence of a veteran racer, she describes her transition onto the new GS skis (“I made the tactical adjustment, and

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it clicked right away”), her run in Levi, (“With a podium in slalom, I have more confidence”) and the episodes of pain she feels in her shins (“I still don’t really know what the problem is, but every athlete competes with some sort of pain”). The next day in Vail, I have a chance to catch up with her before the ski team’s big alpine announcement, an annual event where the team gets as much of the alpine squad together as it can in one place, at one time to announce the names of everyone on said team for that season. We were told by the ski team we’d have a chance to interview the athletes before they went on stage for the announcement. Another reporter and I find Haney and ask for our interviews, and he leads us into a room filled with bright-green jackets, the U.S. Ski Team’s new color for this season. Haney takes a look around the room. No Bode Miller, no Ted Ligety, no Lindsey Vonn, no Julia Mancuso, no Andrew Weibrecht — not a single member of the “A” squad is there. Except Mikaela, Haney says, feel free to go talk to her. I ask her a few questions about her training and having the comforts of home nearby. She says it’s great that she gets to spend time with her family and her pet, Muffin, a large grey and black cat. Then, at one point, she appears to be crying. It turns out she has an eyelash in her eye. We cut the interview short, and the next time I see her, she’s on stage by herself holding a microphone. With Vonn gone, Shiffrin is the new star of the show, tasked with adding a local flair to the event. She greets the hundreds of people below her and begins her performance, which quickly starts to resemble a standup routine gone bad. “How many people here are Vail natives like me?” she asks the crowd. An uncomfortable silence follows. “How many people took their first-ever turns at Golden Peak?” she asks. This time the crowd utters a barely audible response of a few clapping hands. She proceeds. “I remember going up Chair 6 when I was 5 years old and I couldn’t reach the bar,” she says, “but going up Chair 12 was a two-person chair, it was tiny, I could put the bar down, it was great. That was my favorite thing.” An awkward silence follows. Finally someone lets out a loud “woooooo,” seemingly as a courtesy to break up the dead air. After the event, I can’t find Mikaela, but I do find Bode Miller. I ask him if he has time for a few quick questions for the local paper. He says he won’t be doing interviews that evening. A few minutes later, I see Miller exiting out the back of the stage Shiffrin, page A12

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area. As he quickly walks away, he takes off his bright-green jacket, presumably to reduce his conspicuousness as he makes his escape.

Still a kid

A few days later, I’m at Golden Peak during the 9 to 11:30 a.m. training session. I approach Mikaela with the intention of discussing all the media she’s been receiving. The conversation quickly turns to a discussion of Thursday’s standup routine. “I had no idea I was doing that until the night before,” she says. “They were like, ‘Do you mind doing this?’ and I said OK. I got up there, and I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of people.’ I forgot what I was supposed to say. ... It was a weird situation.” Mikaela takes a run, and I have a chance to meet her mother, who’s holding a large snow drill, normally used for the hard-labor tasks of ski racing, such as securing slalom gates into the hillside. Such is the role of an

on-course mother, she says. “It seems like it’s pretty hard to be Mikaela right about now,” I say. Mom tells me I have no idea. “She tries really hard to stay focused,” Eileen Shiffrin tells me. “She tries really hard to focus on the task at hand ... but she is still just a kid.” I compliment Eileen on Mikaela’s professionalism, and she puts her hand to her chest and thanks me with more sincerity than I’ve seen in a while. I get the impression Mom worked pretty hard to instill the high degree of professionalism I see in her young daughter. Mikaela returns and says she’s taking another run. It’s nearly noon; all of the other athletes from the 11:30 a.m. session are off the snow already. “How many runs do you take?” I ask. “Several,” she says with a laugh. “Most of the team does five or six usually,” I say. “And you do 10?” “Ummmm,” Mikaela says. Shiffrin, page A13

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes,â&#x20AC;? Mom says. Mikaela skis away, and Eileen begins to tell me about Mikaelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s particular brand of high-volume training. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s younger, so she can handle more runs than the rest of the athletes, Mom says. I hang out to wait for Mikaelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next run to finish. A few minutes go by, and Mikaela cruises right back into the lift line, barely stopping. I run up to her, clumsily pushing a few people out of the way as I cross the snow, and verify sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing one more run. Indeed, she is, she tells me. A few minutes pass, and suddenly Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m greeted once again by Eileen, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running up to me this time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have you seen Mikaela?â&#x20AC;? she asks, seeming somewhat concerned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, she just got on the lift,â&#x20AC;? I reply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just right now?â&#x20AC;? Mom confirms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, just a minute ago,â&#x20AC;? I reply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, good. I know sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be down by now, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see her,â&#x20AC;? Mom says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got scared that maybe she skied into the trees or something.â&#x20AC;? At this point, it occurs to me that Eileen Shiffrin is a mother above all else, and her assumed role as coach, psychiatrist, manager, agent, drill handler and ski sherpa comes as an obvious second to that primary function of nature. Here is a girl, I think, skiing all over the world on some of the iciest, most difficult conditions on which one can hold an edge, hitting speeds most of us will never experience without the aid of a motor, and if she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show at just the right moment, her poor mother is concerned sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lying dead in an aspen stand. At this point, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who has the more difficult job, Mikaela or her mother.

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When Mikaela finally finishes training for that day, we have a chance to talk about some of the difficulties of her newfound status as a pro athlete and repeat World Cup podium finisher. I approach her the same way I have been after her runs, by walking right up to her and saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;heyâ&#x20AC;? like you would with an old friend. Lindsey Vonn is supposed to make an appearance at any moment to set the pace for Vail Resortsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new EpicMix Racing program, and in the back of my mind, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m already concerned about how difficult itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be to get a quote from Vonn. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve interviewed Vonn a few times in the past, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fantastically welcoming, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually surrounded by a barrier of PR suits making it difficult to get at her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If only it were this easy with Lindsey,â&#x20AC;? I think as I approach Mikaela. And then it hits me. I think about Haney referring me to Mikaela at the announcement event, while the rest of the A team was unavailable in an undisclosed location. I think about the team asking her to give an on-stage speech to hundreds on the eve of the event, and her response: â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK.â&#x20AC;? I think about Mikaelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom telling me they â&#x20AC;&#x153;hadâ&#x20AC;? to stay in Denver after getting back from Finland, due to interviews. I think about Mikaelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homework, which, in addition to the usual high school-level math and history, also involves her filling out Q&A requests from journalists in Italy. I think about how much of a pro she was at Copper, answering questions with the same poise as a veteran, and how, as I continued to watch her, she grew more giddy in the days that followed, like a child who gets a little loopy when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past his or her bedtime. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhausted, I think, and at this point in her young career, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an easy mark for the media. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a journalist, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably not going to turn you down for an interview. If the goal is to be the next Lindsey Vonn, then she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be blowing off journalists just yet, like Bode Miller did to me at the ski team event. I make a conscious decision to keep this next interview as short as possible, for Mikaela and her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake. But I also decide itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good time to ask about Lindsey Vonn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always had so much respect for her, but I have so much more respect for her now seeing how she handles everything on and off the hill,â&#x20AC;? Mikaela tells me.â&#x20AC;? The past five years have been nonstop for her; she just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a break.â&#x20AC;? I tell Mikaela if she continues to hit the podium, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her future. Then I ask her if that thought intimidates her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intimidating,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to have the success a lot, but I mostly just want to ski. ... I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of nerve racking for me to look at her. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I want, but at the same time, if I can sneak out of this a little, I do like to sleep.â&#x20AC;? I ask her if she feels overwhelmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know anything about all of it, so I just get really excited,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You wanna say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to everything, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have time. ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to explain to people because they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;That sounds really cool, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complain about that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not complaining; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just exhausted.â&#x20AC;? Mikaela got another day off the snow on Thursday, a travel day to get from Vail to Aspen, the scene of the next womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Cup. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll race a GS and a slalom there, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, respectively. And as per usual, Mom and Dad will travel with her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that way, I do have an advantage,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having family nearby really helps.â&#x20AC;?

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BUSINESS No ‘holiday’ from financial goals We’re well into the holiday season now. And while the holidays are joyous, they also can be expensive. In fact, at this time of year, many people make spending decisions they end up regretting. But you can enjoy the holidays and still stay on track toward your financial goals by following a few simple guidelines, including the following: • Set a budget — and stick to it. Whether you’re buying gifts or hosting holiday parties, you need to establish a budget and not exceed it. The people to whom you’re giving gifts and entertaining do not expect you to dig yourself into a financial ditch on their account — and they wouldn’t want you to do so, either. • Compare prices. With some searching, you can almost always find less expensive versions of those gifts you’re considering. But a word of caution: The earlier you start hunting for bargains, the better your chances of finding good prices. • Watch for “after-holiday” sales. The best bargains typically appear when the holidays are over. While these sales may not benefit you this year, they can prove quite valuable if you decide to “stock up” on gifts for the next holiday season. • Don’t overuse your credit cards. Try to limit your credit-card purchases over the holidays. If you must use a card, at least pick the one with the lowest interest rate — and do the best you can to pay off the card quickly. Over the past few years, Americans have actually done a pretty good job of lowering their household debt lev-

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‘IF YOU FIND YOURSELF COMING UP SHORT WHEN DEALING WITH HOLIDAY EXPENSES, YOU MAY BE TEMPTED TO CASH OUT AT LEAST A PORTION OF YOUR LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS. BUT THIS SHOULD BE AVOIDED.’ els — and that’s definitely a movement in which you’ll want to participate. Keep in mind that the higher your debts, the less money you’ll have available each month to invest for retirement, college for your children or any of your other financial goals. • Avoid dipping into long-term investments. If you find yourself coming up short when dealing with holiday expenses, you may be tempted to cash out at least a portion of your long-term investments. But this should be avoided, for at least two reasons. First, depending

on the account you’re tapping into, you may face penalties, fees and taxes. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, you’ll be depriving yourself of resources you had earmarked for your key goals, such as a comfortable retirement. Of course, you may eventually be able to replace the funds you’ve withdrawn. But in the meantime, you’ve lost out on the growth potential these investments may have provided — and that period of lost opportunity typically cannot be regained. • Build a “holiday fund.” It might be too late for this year, but once the holidays are over, set up a special account for next holiday season. Even if you put in only a small amount each month, you’ll be pleased with how much you can accumulate in a year. Keep the money in a liquid, lowrisk account — one that’s separate from any money you use for your normal, day-to-day expenses. By following these suggestions, you may be able to take some of the stress out of this holiday season — and possibly even brighten all the other seasons of the year, too. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones financial adviser. Edward Jones and its associates and financial advisers do not provide tax or legal advice. Tina DeWitt, Charlie Wick and Kevin Brubeck are financial advisers with Edward Jones Investments. They can be reached in Edwards at 970-9261728 or in Eagle at 970-328-4959 or 970-328-0361.

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“If the town didn’t want to let us (change to retail), I think we would be successful in a petition — the majority of Eagle County voters passed Amendment 64,” she said. “We want to stay here. The people here are great, and this is our home. Right now, we’re doing well and rolling along.”

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abilities. However, unlike most families, they have a rare and unique edge that may land one of the kids a spot in the Olympics. Adam Leseur and Judi Leseur recently developed the Bermudian Freestyle Team in order to give their kids a new opportunity. Their three boys, Christopher, 16, Matt, 13, and John, 10, make up the entire Bermudian National Freestyle Team. “This opportunity came along thanks to Mike Murphy and his son Tucker who created the Bermuda Winter Ski Association in order to compete for Bermuda in Nordic skiing,” Adam Leseur said. During the last Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bermuda sent Tucker Murphy to compete in Nordic skiing, which was the first time Bermuda had ever competed in the event. After they created the Winter Ski Association, they then had it recognized by the Bermuda Olympic Association, which allowed them to compete for the country. “We as parents have the opportunity to open doors for our kids, and so if the Olympics are a potential door that can be opened, why not offer it to them,” Adam Leseur said.

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The formation of the Bermuda Winter Ski Association evokes images of the classic story of the 1988 Jamaican Bobsled Team. Obviously, training in Bermuda for a winter sports event would be near to impossible. The International Skiing Federation, or FIS, allows international athletes to train in different countries other than the country they are competing for. The Bermudian boys train with Ski & Snowboard Club Vail under the tutelage of coaches John Dowling and John Grigsby. Dowling has coached numerous U.S. Ski Team athletes and knows exactly what he is doing when it comes to the

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for now,” McLaughlin said. “It’s our job to protect the rights of everyone, and when Amendment 64 goes into effect, we will protect those new rights, as well.” Hoy pointed out how some areas are handling it differently. For example, the district attorney in Boulder immediately dropped all marijuana charges against people who were 21 or older. The DA’s reasoning was that a jury would be unlikely to convict for those charges in light of the amendment. “Weld County is doing just the opposite — they’re going to continue prosecuting until the new law goes into effect,” Hoy said. “We are still going to charge people for possession, but we’re not actively hunting for people with a small amount of pot on them.”

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world of moguls. Grigsby has been coaching moguls for the past 11 years at numerous well-respected locations. With their coaching skills and the new facilities available at Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, these athletes have a shot at achieving their dreams. “The program here has taken some time to develop,” Adam Leseur said. “Really up until late, the resources have begun to expand making it more possible to quickly progress in this sport. With Woodward and the new trampoline facility at the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy, we have seen tremendous change and growth in the sport of freestyle skiing.” “They are already incredible skiers, but now they will be skiing with some of the best in the world. This will surely be an eye opener,” Judi Leseur said.

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Vonn ready to go for today’s GS Lindsey will skip slalom By Jon Maletz THE ASPEN TIMES

ASPEN — November has been quite a pain for Lindsey Vonn. The four-time World Cup overall champion is working to regain her form after a puzzling intestinal virus that landed her in a Vail hospital for two nights last week. While she was forced to curtail her training, Vonn said Friday that she is healthy enough to race in this weekend’s Aspen Winternational. At least in one event, anyway. The 28-year-old will take part in today’s giant slalom on Aspen Mountain’s Strawpile course, but has opted to skip Sunday’s slalom to conserve energy for next week’s trip to Lake Louise, Alberta. She has won four straight races at the Canadian resort — which has affectionately been referred to as “Lake Lindsey” — including a rare sweep of two downhills and a super-G in December 2011. Vonn was a late scratch from last year’s slalom on Ajax because of lingering back pain. “When I thought of the possibility of not racing here, it made me really sad,” Vonn told a throng of reporters and photographers at the St. Regis. “It’s definitely been a rough couple of weeks, and I’ve been working hard to get my

strength back to be ready for tomorrow. I’m not exactly sure what to expect, but I’m just excited to be able to race in my home state in front of the home crowd. Racing to me is the fun part.” Vonn was attending the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association’s Gold Medal Gala in New York on Nov. 7 when she said she came down with a stomach virus. When rest and medicine did not alleviate the problem, she was admitted to the hospital. “I’m not going to lie. It was really bad,” the Olympic downhill gold medalist said. “It was definitely the most pain I’ve ever been in in my life. I’m not a person who willingly goes to the hospital. ... I was not happy about it, but it was definitely worth it. I was at a point where the pain was too severe, and the medication I was getting wasn’t working. I needed to resolve it.” Doctors eventually identified the right antibiotic to combat Vonn’s symptoms. She was released and spent nearly a week in bed before doing some freesking at Vail on Nov. 17 and light gate training the following day. “It’s still a struggle with my appetite, and I definitely lost some strength and some cardio stamina,” she said. “I feel like the strength is back, but I’m still more out of breath than I normally am, especially here in Aspen with the high altitude and the steep, difficult course. I get a little more tired than usual, but every day I’ve gotten a lot better. Before, I couldn’t

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Reigning World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn heads for Lift 1A on Friday during a freeski in advance of today’s giant slalom in Aspen. do half a free run before I was falling over.” Vonn has eased back into training this week with a relatively light workload. In addition to freesking, she’s completed three full downhills and just two threequarter-length GS runs. Vonn has not competed since Oct. 27 in Soelden, Austria, where she clipped a gate with her left hand on her second run and crashed. She skipped the Nov. 10

slalom in Levi, Finland, as was originally planned. “I’m still taking it day by day to get to where I was,” she said. “I’m not 100 percent, but I’m close.” As a result, Vonn said she doesn’t expect much of a result today on a hill that has been notoriously unkind to the star. Vonn’s best result in GS here was a fourthplace finish in 2008. In her last three trips, she was 12th, did not finish the first run and then failed

to qualify for a second run. “The snow looked perfect (during Friday’s freeski). They did a great job preparing the hill. But to be honest with you, Aspen is not exactly my wheelhouse,” Vonn said. “It’s a very difficult hill for me. It’s very tough physically and just doesn’t feel good — you have to fight the entire way down. I’m not expecting to feel good tomorrow, but I’ll definitely go out there and give it my best.”

Two Vail skiers primed for Cup debuts Ghent, Moltzan get starts By Jon Maletz THE ASPEN TIMES

ASPEN — The Ghent family’s ties to Aspen run deep. Abby Ghent, a 20-year-old member of the U.S. Ski Team’s Alpine C squad, has been racing on Ajax since she was a J4. Her mother, Karen, a former ski racer and alpine director at Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, recorded her best World Cup finish — fourth place — on the famed Strawpile course in the early 1980s. A poster commemorating the event hangs in the television room in the family’s home in Edwards. This will be different. Today, a dream nearly 14 years in the making becomes a reality. Today, Abby Ghent is slated to take part in the Aspen Winternational giant slalom. It will be her first World Cup start. “I don’t want to get my hopes up too high, but I think it’s going to be very exciting,” a beaming Ghent said after Friday’s freeski. “This has been the goal basically since I started ski racing, and it makes it that much better that it’s in Aspen. I know this hill well, and I feel comfortable on it. I enjoy skiing here, and my whole family gets to come watch.

“I’m going to stick to the normal routine today, but it’s going to be tomorrow morning that the heart will be pounding when I’m waking up knowing I’m about to start a World Cup. Wow, it’s crazy just to even say that.” Like Ghent, Paula Moltzan, also an alumna of SSCV, knows the feeling. The daughter of ski instructors, the Lakeville, Minn., product has been dreaming of competing on skiing’s top circuit since she was a youngster carving turns at diminutive Buck Hill — a ski area on the outskirts of Minneapolis that has produced some of the country’s top talent, including Kristina Koznick and four-time PAULA overall champion MOLTZAN Lindsey Vonn. Like Vonn, Moltzan relocated to Vail two years ago to advance her career. The plan has paid immediate dividends. One day after watching Ski & Snowboard Club Vail cohorts Vonn and Ghent tackle Ajax, Moltzan will get her first taste of World Cup competition in Sunday’s slalom. The weight of the moment was beginning to sink in Friday morning. “I’m a little nervous. There are a

lot of hotshots and big guns out here,” the wide-eyed 18-year-old said. “It’s been fun watching all the older girls ripping turns down the hill — they’re all really big role models for me. Of course, I’ve followed Kristina and Lindsey, but also Maria Hoefl-Riesch, too. “I’m so excited to get to watch Abby tomorrow. It’s like having family travel with you. This whole team is like family.” Moltzan’s successful 2011-12 winter — her second on the Development squad — was highlighted by a second-place GS finish in an International Ski Federation race in Pozza di Fassa, Italy. She closed out the season by finishing third among juniors and fifth overall in slalom at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Winter Park. While she harbored dreams of making a World Cup start this season, Moltzan admits it really wasn’t on her radar — at least not until about a week ago, when she topped other Development athletes in a training-session time trial in Vail. She was informed that he she had clinched a spot in the Aspen field soon after. “I was so happy that I started crying,” Moltzan recalled. “I was so excited. This is finally coming true. My dream is finally coming true.” Ghent, meanwhile, knew she was in line to start at next week’s

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Abby Ghent leans into a turn during a Nov. 17 giant slalom training session on Aspen Mountain. Ghent will get her first World Cup start in today’s giant slalom in Aspen. World Cup stop in Lake Louise, Alberta. That much was assured after a stellar 2011-12 campaign in which she finished in the top five in four Nor-Am categories, as well as runner-up in the final downhill and super-G standings. Her World Cup debut was bumped up a week following last week’s stellar finish in a FIS GS at Copper Mountain. Ghent took seventh overall and second to Stacey Cook among U.S. competitors. The effort was good enough to secure her a spot in today’s race. “For it to be my first World Cup

and be in GS is exciting, because tech races are difficult,” Ghent said. “As of this summer, I’m a little more speed-oriented, but I love GS, and I think it’s a really important part of my skiing. When I’m skiing well in GS, I know I’ll be skiing well in other events.” Moltzan echoed that sentiment. “Making the top 30 and getting a second run would be nice, but if I don’t, I’ll be happy, too,” she said. “My parents are flying out from Minnesota. I’m so excited to have them be able to experience this with me.”