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• Letter: Global warming’s effects are scary — as the head of the EPA, who can’t see that

  13-02-2018 23:54
  Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, questions whether a warming climate is such a bad thing. While the impact that human activity has on climate change can be debated, the effects of a warming climate on planet Earth cannot. At the very least, polar ice will melt, seas will rise, ocean currents will change, storm surges will get larger, coastal areas will be flooded and islands around the world will disappear.By any measure, that is bad. It is absolutely frightening that this man is in charge of
  
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• MyKayla Skinner breaks Pac-12 record as gymnast of the week again

  13-02-2018 23:34
  Utah sophomore gymnast MyKayla Skinner earned her third Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week award Tuesday, giving her a conference-record 10 overall such honors. The previous record holder was UCLA’s Vanessa Zamarripa, who won the award nine times in her career from 2009 to 2013.Skinner won the all-around (39.675), vault (9.9), bars (9.925), beam (9.9) and floor (9.95) in Utah’s 197.075-195.4 win over Arizona State on Friday. She ranks second in the all-around and has 17 individual wins this
  
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• Former Utah teacher sentenced to jail for keeping naked pictures of female student on his phone

  13-02-2018 23:34
  A former Hurricane High School teacher and baseball coach has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for asking a female student to send him naked photos of herself, which he kept on his phone.Aaron Karl Esplin, 41, of La Verkin, pleaded guilty in October to second-degree felony sexual exploitation of minor. A sexual battery charge was dismissed as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, who also agreed to recommend jail time rather than prison at his sentencing. As part of a three-year probation, Judg
  
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• Lawmakers will consider — again — whether to abolish the death penalty in Utah

  13-02-2018 23:32
  After a push to end Utah’s death penalty system failed two years ago, lawmakers will again consider whether to abolish capital punishment.HB379 would prohibit Utah prosecutors from seeking the death penalty after May 8. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, still would allow for the nine men currently on death row to be executed. It also would allow prosecutors to continue to seek executions in current cases — so long as they file their intent to do so before the Ma
  
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  13-02-2018 23:14 via twitter.com
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• Your Weekly Dose of Dunks ⬇️💥⬇️ @WasatchFord https://t.co/6f3BN3OsYi

  13-02-2018 23:01 via twitter.com
  
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• Trump wants to slash food stamps and replace them with a 'Blue Apron-type program'

  13-02-2018 23:00
  Washington • The Trump administration wants to slash food aid to low-income families and make up the difference with a box of canned goods — a change that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney described in a Monday briefing as a "Blue Apron-type program.""What we do is propose that for folks who are on food stamps, part - not all, part - of their benefits come in the actual sort of, and I don't want to steal somebody's copyright, but a Blue Apron-type program where yo
  
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• Letter: Think more before taxing skiers

  13-02-2018 23:00
  While recent comments on the Utah bill SB71 may have skiers worried that road tolls are imminent for the Cottonwood canyons, there must be much more analysis ahead.Senate President Wayne Niederhauser may be occasionally inconvenienced by traffic near his home, but the bill to modernize toll collection is premature.A detailed study of canyon transportation is available at MountainAccord.com. There are complicated and expensive infrastructure strategies that will fall mostly to UDOT, UTA and the F
  
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• Letter: Humane Society is being misrepresented

  13-02-2018 23:00
  Another day, another distortion from Will Coggin of the Center for Consumer Freedom. In his latest attack on the Humane Society of the United States (Letters, Feb. 8), Coggin misrepresents our mission and ignores how we supplement the vital role of local animal shelters and rescue groups nationwide.As the nation’s most effective animal protection organization, the HSUS works to help all animals, pets, wildlife and farm animals. Rather than duplicate the efforts of our local counterparts, w
  
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• A backup plan for the backup plan: RSL coach Mike Petke using preseason to experiment with lineup as a hedge against injuries

  13-02-2018 22:59
  Danilo Acosta jogged out next to Justen Glad in the middle of the back line instead of out wide to his usual spot at left back as Real Salt Lake broke from its pregame huddle.“Looking back on last year very shortly after I took over, the injuries that we had, and we just decided this year to be very proactive,” RSL coach Mike Petke said after that Feb. 3 preseason match against the L.A. Galaxy. “I know Danny can play left back. I know what he’s capable of there. I could h
  
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• Will Utah County create a board to review complaints of prosecutor misconduct? Commissioners slated to vote next week

  13-02-2018 22:34
  Provo • The Utah County Commission could vote as soon as next week on whether to establish a panel to review allegations of unethical behavior by prosecutors.The commission last August adopted a resolution to establish a prosecutorial review board — the first of its kind in Utah, and possibly the nation. But during Tuesday’s meeting, support for the creation of such a board did not appear unanimous among the three commissioners.
  While Commissioners Nathan Ivie and Bill Lee stron
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Why Jazz are more popular with Donovan Mitchell than Gordon Hayward

  13-02-2018 22:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... o secret they’re happy to be here. Gobert is the fierce, unapologetic leader Jazz fans want him to be. Mitchell has fans charmed, something Hayward, as good a ...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Jazz, Thunder, Teague, Wolves

  13-02-2018 22:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... pm CST by Luke Adams The Jazz‘s decision to trade and in deadline deals last week signaled that neither of ...
  
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• Why Jazz are more popular with Donovan Mitchell than Gordon Hayward

  13-02-2018 22:00
  It’s easy to like a team that’s on a 10-game win streak. Right now the Jazz are everyone in Utah’s darling. Think of it this way: Joe Ingles is a semi-rock star.Nobody saw that coming.All this is predictable, considering the success. But there’s something more. It’s that the current Jazz iteration appears to want to be in Utah and fans want them here. The Jazz are only in 10th place, but the interest level far exceeds that.Never underestimate the power of bonding.Go
  
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• Commentary: Stop the big giveaway to EnergySolutions

  13-02-2018 21:59
  Only a full Senate vote now stands in the way of EnergySolutions’ $1.72 million grab.This huge fee abatement comes at a time when EnergySolutions is aggressively pursuing a proposal to bring 700,000 tons of depleted uranium to the state of Utah. Depleted uranium is a unique nuclear waste stream whose radioactivity ramps up over time, growing more and more radioactive for millennia. Unlike most radioactive materials, which become less hazardous as they decay, depleted uranium can grow to be
  
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• Chocolate-covered cinnamon bears? How an unlikely treat became a Utah obsession

  13-02-2018 21:36
  Chocolate cinnamon bears are red and spicy, chewy and sweet — a uniquely irresistible combination that Utahns love on Valentine’s Day and beyond. “They are really good,” said Maddi Luczak, a student at Brigham Young University. “The cinnamon is hot and the chocolate is sweet and it kind of subdues the spice.”
  Plain red gummy candies — flavored with cinnamon and shaped like a cuddly teddy bear — have been around since the 1920s, says Rachel Sweet wi
  
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• Wary of saying humans are responsible, Utah lawmakers postpone vote on two climate-change resolutions

  13-02-2018 21:34
  Despite pressure from colleagues on Tuesday to accept current science, some Utah lawmakers remained resistant to the concept of human-caused climate change.Members of the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee heard about two climate-related proposals Tuesday morning, House Concurrent Resolutions 1 and 7.Both non-binding measures that would enshrine some kind of recognition the climate is changing into state policy — but legislators ran out of time and postponed fur
  
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• Bill that would allow small Utah farmers to be free of some safety rules passes House

  13-02-2018 21:33
  HB181, which would ease government restrictions for small Utah food producers, was approved by the House 64-7 on Tuesday and is now headed to the Senate.The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Marc Roberts, R-Santaquin, and Sen. Daniel Hemmert, R-Orem, would exempt some farmers and home-based producers from certain state, county or city regulations as long as the food is properly labeled and sold directly to Utah consumers for home consumption. TRACK THIS BILL Would exempt home-based food producers from
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Are the Jazz REALLY contenders? Is Quin Snyder coach of the year?

  13-02-2018 21:32
  Tony Jones, one of the Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat reporters, will answer questions submitted on Twitter each week in his Jazz mailbag. Here are this week’s questions and answers.
  What is the best path to getting a 3rd “dynamic scorer?— Denny B Kartchner (@dennybradk) February 13, 2018I think the best path is the draft then to turn the draft picks over to Utah’s elite player developmental program. The Jazz also have financial flexibility to make moves in free agency wi
  
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• By a single vote, the Utah House avoided a strikeout on bills that would legalize medical marijuana for terminally ill patients

  13-02-2018 21:25
  Lawmakers knew the vote would be close for a plan to create a state-run dispensary supplied with marijuana products for a narrow list of patients.HB197 had already failed on the floor on Friday, falling short of the required 38 votes to make it to the Senate. But the bill needed to pass if a companion bill, HB195, which did pass on Friday, were to do anything.Some feared the consequences of putting the state out of compliance with federal law on cannabis, an illegal plant that 29 other states ha
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz are fun again

  13-02-2018 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... ke me, you can’t get enough of Donovan Mitchell. On days when there is not a Jazz game, I find myself daydreaming of Spida flying through the air and crushing ...
  
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• Lawmakers vote to stiffen penalty for killing police dogs

  13-02-2018 21:02
  Killing a police dog could bring stiffer penalties — tougher even than for some criminals who kill humans.The Senate voted 20-6 to pass SB57 and sent it to the House.Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Holladay, said several police dogs were killed in Utah in recent years — sometimes saving fellow human officers. Her bill would increase the intentional killing of a canine officer from a third- to a second-degree felony.A third-degree felony may bring up to five years in prison, while a second-degre
  
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• Freed from Cleveland, Jae Crowder has a new lease on his career with the Jazz

  13-02-2018 21:01
  A pair of shoes gathered dust in an office for 24 years.They were L.A. Gears. Big high tops that were popular for that era. Signed by an journeyman NBA player almost no one had heard of — Corey Crowder.But the Utah Jazz PR staff discovered the shoes in 2016, just taking up space in Vivint Smart Home Arena, and the Jazz gave them fresh life by giving them to one of the few people to whom they would have meaning: Corey’s son, Jae. Something about that gesture has never left Jae Crowder
  
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• Steve Kerr didn't disrespect Suns by letting his players coach. He was waking up the Warriors.

  13-02-2018 20:23
  Oakland, Calif. • The Golden State Warriors and the casual NBA fan are now one in the same.Both can't wait for the playoffs to start.Take Monday night's game against the Phoenix Suns, for example. What otherwise would have been a completely unremarkable 129-83 rout of a horrendous Suns team by the Warriors instead featured a drastic step Kerr took to try to get his team's attention after several weeks of lagging performances."I haven't been able to reach them the last month," Kerr said. "Th
  
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• You can get married in Wendover starting Valentine’s Day

  13-02-2018 20:18
  Wedded bliss will be available just across the Utah-Nevada state line this Valentine’s Day, as the city of West Wendover, Nev., starts issuing marriage licenses.The wide spot on Interstate 80, about 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, is a popular destination for casino gaming and concerts. But the city on Wednesday will for the first time offer that other Nevada bordertown staple: quickie marriages.“It felt like a natural to do it here, like a mini-Las Vegas,” said Jasie Holm, a
  
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• Mayor Ben McAdams touts Operation Rio Grande, is sure Legislature will deliver funding help to areas near new homeless centers

  13-02-2018 20:15
  Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams cited progress on reducing homelessness in his annual State of the County address Tuesday, but reaffirmed that the county would not build a planned homeless resource center in South Salt Lake until the state passes legislation to address the impact of such facilities on their host communities.In a 29-minute address before an audience of mostly county officials and employees, the mayor also highlighted the cross-jurisdiction Operation Rio Grande initiative begun
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Why George Hill, Jae Crowder stand to benefit from Cavs' three-way deadline trade - CBSSports.com

  13-02-2018 19:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... is early, but he appears to be loving life.  "Unbelievable," Crowder said to Jazz sideline reporter Kristen Kenney after his debut. "These guys have welcomed...
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: We’re No. 1! Utahns still lead the nation in watching the Olympics

  13-02-2018 19:56
  NBC loves Utah. A lot.Because Utahns love watching the Olympics on TV. A lot.As so often has been the case over the past couple of decades, the Salt Lake television market leads the nation in Olympics viewing. We’ve been No. 1 each of the first four nights that NBC has aired prime-time coverage from Pyeongchang.(That’s as far as the numbers go as of this writing.)And we’re waaaaay ahead of the nation as a whole. Nationally, NBC’s telecast of the Opening Ceremony averaged
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - How the Utah Jazz became the hottest team in the NBA during 10-game win streak

  13-02-2018 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... ason where you lay an egg, and it has more to do with how you respond,” said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. The Jazz responded with 98-95 overtime road win against D ...
  
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• How the Utah Jazz became the hottest team in the NBA during 10-game win streak

  13-02-2018 19:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz’s flight landed in Atlanta around 5:25 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21.There were no flight issues, guys were able to rest, but the team just didn’t have it that Monday night against the Atlanta Hawks.Utah trailed by as many as 26 before falling to the Hawks 104-90 in Philips Arena.Guys looked flat. Defensively, they broke down. They shot 43.4 percent from the field. And just couldn’t hang with the Eastern Conference’s worst team.To put things in
  
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• Bill advances to allow bicyclists to roll through stop signs, red lights

  13-02-2018 19:44
  A bill to allow bicyclists to legally roll through stop signs and red lights easily cruised through a House committee on Tuesday.The House Transportation Committee voted unanimously to endorse HB58 and sent it to the full House for consideration.It would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, and red lights as stop signs. In short, it would allow cyclists to roll through a controlled intersection if no other traffic is present. Idaho and Delaware already have similar laws.“Cy
  
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• $1.5 billion in bonds for prison, highways now will come with an extra $10.5 million cost

  13-02-2018 19:41
  The Legislature decided to borrow $1.5 billion last year through bonds for transportation projects and the new state prison. Now the Senate has approved a bill that may raise that borrowing by an additional $10.5 million.Senators passed SB110 by a 26-0 vote and sent it to the House.The bill clarifies that all of the $1 billion in borrowing that was authorized last year to speed highway projects will go to roads, and an additional $570 million in bonds OK’d for the new state prison will go
  
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• Replacement picked for Utah lawmaker who resigned amid prostitution controversy

  13-02-2018 19:29
  St. George • Southern Utah Republicans have chosen an attorney from a prominent local family to replace a lawmaker who resigned amid reports he met a prostitute in taxpayer-funded hotel rooms.The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports Travis Seegmiller won an eight-way race at an emergency Washington County Republican meeting on Monday.Seegmiller is also an associate professor and longtime political consultant who worked for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. His wife is a Tony Aw
  
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• Tonga's Olympic flag bearer thinking of cyclone-hit homeland

  13-02-2018 19:28
  Pyeongchang, South Korea • Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua has more on his mind than just trying to compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics this week.The 34-year-old cross-country skier is concerned about his homeland after it was hit by a cyclone that destroyed Parliament House as well as churches and homes."Thank you for all the kind messages of support," Taufatofua said on his Facebook account Tuesday. "Tonga has been hit very hard by Cyclone Gita resulting in a lot of damage. Still yet t
  
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• Real Salt Lake sells local streaming rights to KSL

  13-02-2018 19:26
  Real Salt Lake has sold its local online streaming rights to KSL, but its TV contract remains unchanged.The new deal does not affect the team’s local TV deal with KMYU. RSL recently renewed its contract with that station, which will continue to air games through 2020. But local fans also will be able to watch the games free online at KSL.com and on the KSL app.“We’re really excited,” said Trey Fitz-Gerald, RSL’s vice president of broadcasting and public relations. &
  
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• Golden Geisenberger: German star defends women's luge title

  13-02-2018 19:25
  Pyeongchang, South Korea • Natalie Geisenberger refuses to call herself the best women’s luge athlete ever.The history books may do it for her.Germany has yet another Olympic gold medalist after Geisenberger prevailed in the women’s luge final on Tuesday — her second consecutive title and one that added yet another page to her burgeoning resume of accomplishments.“The most of what you reach in sport is an Olympic gold medal,” Geisenberger said.And now, no luger
  
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• Rolly: If southern Utah lawmaker Mike Noel keeps pushing policies that hurt Salt Lake City residents, they should get to hurt him — at the ballot box

  13-02-2018 19:16
  When Rocky Anderson was Salt Lake City’s mayor in the early 2000s, he drove Utah conservatives crazy. The liberal politician led rallies against Republican President George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, joined a lawsuit against a massive highway project for threatening sensitive wetlands and spoke out frequently and loudly on behalf of progressive causes.So some of his critics in Davis County and in other, more conservative, Salt Lake County cities advocated for a legal exe
  
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• Commentary: Rob Porter is my ex-husband. Here’s what you should know about abuse.

  13-02-2018 19:09
  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that she has no reason not to believe statements that Jennifer Willoughby and I have made about our ex-husband, former White House aide Rob Porter. I actually appreciated her saying that she at least did not not believe us.But I was dismayed when Conway, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” went on to say that she does not fear for White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, who has reportedly been dating Porter. &ldquo
  
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• Police seek tips from public after Clinton shooting leaves one man dead

  13-02-2018 18:57
  Police were seeking tips from the public Tuesday morning after a shooting in Davis County left one man dead.Clinton police Lt. Shawn Stoker said the shooting took place just after 9:30 p.m. near 1000 West and 1100 North in Clinton. Witnesses reported hearing four to eight gunshots and then seeing several vehicles leave the scene with their lights off. At that point, Stoker said, police believed the incident had been a drive-by shooting.Later, someone called police to report a gunshot victim in a
  
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• West Wendover offering a new Valentine‘s Day treat: marriage licenses

  13-02-2018 18:50
  Wedded bliss will be available just across the Utah-Nevada state line this Valentine’s Day, as the city of West Wendover, Nev., starts issuing marriage licenses.The wide spot on Interstate 80, about 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, is a popular destination for casino gaming and concerts. But the city on Wednesday will for the first time offer that other Nevada bordertown staple: quickie marriages.“It felt like a natural to do it here, like a mini-Las Vegas,” said Jasie Holm, a
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump hates deficits. Unless they help rich people.

  13-02-2018 18:47
  When are deficits good?When they fund tax cuts for donors and rich people.When are deficits “dangerous”?When they fund health care for poor people and children, training for workers, and infrastructure and other long-term investments in our economy.That is the worldview of late of the Trump administration, based on the budget proposal it released Monday and recent comments from its chief budget honcho, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney (who also happens to be wor
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Assign Bradley and Mitrou-Long to Salt Lake City Stars

  13-02-2018 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... Facebook Google Plus Twitter The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has assigned center Tony Bradley and guard Naz ...
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz should set sights higher than just playoffs

  13-02-2018 18:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... r-game sweep at the hands of the Warriors. Related: The Triple Team: Jazz, down 13 in 4th, come back to win 10th straight Three thoughts on the defens ...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz riding high on 10-game winning streak, back to eyeing playoffs

  13-02-2018 18:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... 2/12 - Utah Jazz: Damian Lillard the latest who thinks Mitchell should be NBA ROTY 2/12 - Uta ...
  
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• Utah’s Olympic melting pot: Utahns compete for multiple countries in Pyeongchang Games

  13-02-2018 18:33
  Pyeongchang, South Korea • Akwasi Frimpong has been taking full advantage of his first Olympic experience. The skeleton slider says nobody in the athlete village has traded more collectable pins. He danced and cried as he led his country into Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony last week, waving the red, yellow and green flag of Ghana.“It’s very emotional to carry the flag of your country,” said Frimpong, who will be the first Ghanaian to ever compete in an Olympic sk
  
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