Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Locals compete in Olympics

Arritola, Watanabe race in Vancouver

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By EXPRESS STAFF

Morgan Arritola Graham Watanabe Photo by Mountain Express

Two of the Wood River Valley's home-grown athletes, Morgan Arritola and Graham Watanabe, competed in this week's Olympic Games in Vancouver. Arritola, 23, placed 34th in the women's 10 km freestyle cross-country ski race on Monday. Arritola, who grew up in Fairfield, graduated from The Community School in Sun Valley and is a member of the Sun Valley Ski Team, finished in the middle of the pack in her first Olympics. Her time of 27 minutes and four seconds was just over two minutes behind that of gold medalist Charlotte Kalla of Sweden, who finished in 24 minutes and 58 seconds.

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Watanabe, 27, a resident of Hailey and a 2000 Wood River High School graduate finished 18th in the Olympic snowboard cross race at Cypress Mountain on Monday. He was in second place after the qualifying round and competed in the final round of 32. This was Watanabe's second Olympics, having competed in the 2006 games in Italy.

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Recent Sun Valley transplant Hilary Knight is competing on the women's hockey team. The U.S. crushed China on Sunday night and was scheduled to play Russia on Tuesday night.