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Saturday, January 26, 2019
Clark retiring after 20 years in the halfpipe Bettman: NHL owners
not ‘looking for a fi ght’
in CBA discussions
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
DENVER — What was
perhaps Kelly Clark’s most
memorable trip down a half-
pipe had nothing to do with
winning.
It was the Winter X
Games in 2011. Clark had
already secured the title.
With one lap left — a victory
lap, as they call it in snow-
boarding — she decided to
try something no woman
had ever done. She became
the fi rst to land a 1080 —
that’s twisting three revolu-
tions above the halfpipe —
in competition.
The move summed up the
essence of what the greats do
for snowboarding. As much
as winning, they are about
pushing the sport to new lev-
els. And often their biggest
competition is the person
looking back at them in the
mirror.
At peace with her role in
cementing that mindset into
snowboarding, the fi ve-time
Olympian, who dominated
her sport while ushering in
the Olympic era, has decided
to retire.
“At some times in my
career, days that might not
have included my best snow-
boarding led to some of
my greatest victories,” the
35-year-old Clark told The
Associated Press. “This
sport has always been about
more than just winning and
losing.”
But there’s been plenty
of winning along the way:
A gold medal in her Olym-
pic debut. Two bronze. Five
X Games titles. Nine more
at the U.S. Open. A total of
78 victories and 137 trips
onto the podium spanning
a career that began 20 years
ers want to recoup some
of the losses they suffered
in the last two negotia-
SAN JOSE, Calif. — tions, including an end to
NHL Commissioner Gary the escrow payments that
Bettman said Friday the ensure the 50-50 split in
owners aren’t “looking revenues.
However,
Schneider
for a fi ght” when it comes
to collective bargain- said he didn’t agree that
ing negotiations with the the players are in control
of whether there will be
players.
The current CBA runs another work stoppage.
“There’s
no
until 2022, but the
question that the
league and play-
players have given
ers each have the
back billions of
option this Septem-
dollars over the
ber to terminate
course of the past
it effective Sept.
two negotiations,”
15, 2020. Bettman
Schneider
said.
said at a news con-
Bettman
“That’s no secret.
ference at All-Star
I don’t think I’d
weekend that the
owners are mostly satisfi ed characterize it as the ball’s
with the last two negotia- in the players’ hands.”
Both sides have had
tions that instituted a sal-
ary cap, and then provided productive talks already
an even split of hockey-re- and were able to reach an
lated revenues between agreement on player and
puck tracking, which Bet-
players and owners.
“There’s no question tman said bodes well for
that the league is healthier more diffi cult negotiations
now dramatically,” Bett- ahead.
Schneider said the ten-
man said. “We wouldn’t be
where we are today if we sion that was present at the
didn’t have a system that start of the last talks, that
corrected some of the ills led to a lockout that wiped
in the past. We have sta- out 510 games, is in the
bility, we have competitive past and both sides agree
balance and the game is the relationship between
able to grow. That’s good players and owners is
for everyone involved with stronger than ever.
“Hopefully, we’re at a
the game.”
NHLPA special assis- place where labor peace
tant to the executive direc- can be more important
tor Mathieu Schneider than anything else we need
agreed that the tenor of to accomplish,” Bettman
discussions has improved said. “Because I think the
in a sport that has had one opportunities in front of
strike and three lockouts us are even greater than
since 1992, but that play- what’s been behind us.”
By JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File
In this Feb. 12, 2018, fi le photo, Kelly Clark competes in the women’s halfpipe qualifying at
Phoenix Snow Park at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
ago, back when the halfpipes edge of the board with one
were handmade and only hand — and started win-
about half the size of the ning Olympic qualifi ers. In
22-foot behemoths that chal- February 2002, she became
lenge the riders in today’s the fi rst American to win an
pro game.
Olympic snowboard-
In 2001, Clark
ing gold medal.
was a fresh-faced
“The
ultimate
teenager from Ver-
peak at the ultimate
mont whose parents
time,” she called it.
had indulged her
But it didn’t nec-
dream — maybe a
essarily lead to hap-
fantasy — to shred
piness. In the after-
Clark
down halfpipes with
math, Clark became
the hopes of mak-
consumed in a world
ing it big someday. She had of too much pressure, too
no real expectations, and the many commitments, not
thought of making the Olym- enough fun. In an interview
pics the next year seemed last winter, her coach, Rick
far-fl ung.
Bower, recalled that he “kept
Over the span of a few wondering, does she want to
weeks, that all changed. keep doing this?”
Clark fi gured out the
“You’re young, you win
McTwist — an avant-garde gold, you think life is going
trick of that era that involves to be easy and you’re all
1 ½ spins while holding the set, and it wasn’t,” said Bur-
ton CEO Donna Carpen-
ter, the wife of the compa-
ny’s founder, Jake Burton.
“That’s when she realized
it wasn’t about winning but
more about fi nding her own
measure of success and pro-
gressing the sport.”
Clark’s bronze medals
in 2010 in Vancouver, then
again four years later in
Sochi, both came after hard
falls that made her question
whether she could do it. Last
year, she fi nished fourth in
Pyeongchang, but even mak-
ing it to South Korea was a
minor miracle given the bru-
tal crash she endured weeks
earlier at the X Games in
Aspen.
Refl ecting last year on
some of those mishaps, she
said “sometimes you value
things based on what they
cost you.”
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