Party cloudy turns to a sunny sky with a high of 28 and a low of 14 just before sunrise. At Snowbasin the high will be 30 with a low of 11. The sky will remain partly cloudy all day.
ATHLETE TO WATCH
Hannah Hardaway
U.S., moguls
Hardaway could score the first medal for the United States at Salt Lake City when she competes in the women’s moguls. She won the gold at the World Cup Olympic test event in January 2001. She finished 14th at the 2001 world championships but was third in the World Cup standings. Expect to see U.S. freesyler Brian Currutt in the crowd; they were engaged three months ago.
SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE
Cross-country skiing
At Soldier Hollow
Women’s 15km freestyle, 10 a.m.
Men’s 30km freestyle
Figure skating
At Salt Lake Ice Center
Pairs, short program, 7:30 p.m.
Freestyle skiing
At Deer Valley Resort
Women’s moguls, 10 a.m.
Hockey
At the Peaks Ice Arena
Men’s prelim, Belarus vs. Ukraine, 3 p.m.
Men’s prelim, Austria va. Latvia, 8 p.m.
At E Center
Men’s prelim, Slovakia vs. Germany, 5 p.m.
Men’s prelim, Switzerland vs. France, 10 p.m.
Nordic combined
At Utah Olympic Park
K90 individual jumps, 10 a.m.
Speedskating
At Utah Olympic Oval
Men’s 5,000m, 1 p.m.
SATURDAY’S TV
2 p.m.-5 p.m.
(NBC) Cross-country skiing (women’s 15k freestyle, men’s 30k freestyle), speedskating (men’s 5,000m)
5 p.m.-11 p.m.
CNBC) Men’s hockey (Germany vs. Slovakia, Austria vs. Latvia, Belarus vs. Ukraine)
7 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
(NBC) Figure skating (pairs short program), freestyle skiing (women’s moguls final), nordic combined (K90 individual)
11 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
(NBC) Daily roundup
11:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
(NBC) Taped coverage
Midnight-6 a.m.
(MSNBC) Taped coverage
WINTER ZONE
Rachel Steer may have the coolest fingernails in Salt Lake City.
Steer, the top-ranked biathlete on the U.S. women’s team, sports several decorations. Some of the squiggles need explanation–they are symbols of a cosmetics company that sponsors her. Other fingers have temporary engravings that need no further explanation– American flags.
Steer, from Anchorage, plans on another visit with a manicurist to spruce up the fading images before her competition begins.
“That’s what happens when you use your hands a lot,” she said.
Emotion–the realization that she is actually an Olympian–has sunk in too.
“I can’t even express it,” Steer said. “I was watching the torch relay on TV [Wednesday night] and I started crying.”
