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...state's history--as well as 100 U.S. Marshals and 200 Border Patrol agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Surveillance aircraft will circle overhead, with F-16 fighter jets on standby at nearby Hill Air Force Base. While rifle-toting athletes ski the Soldier Hollow biathlon course, armed National Park Service rangers not far away will be patrolling Wasatch Mountain State Park...
...Biathlon is another yin-yang event, as it combines cross-country skiing-which gets the heart rate roaring-and riflery, which requires a calm, relaxed touch. Europeans are still the best, but American Jay Hakkinen, 24, has placed as high as fifth in a World Cup event. Hakkinen, who has been blasting since 1994, says that despite America's habitual futility in biathlon, he has heard only support, never ridicule: "You just don't joke around about the guy with the gun, I guess...
...That's it. That's all I can come up with for options at the moment, and they all have equally (or nearly equally) fatal flaws. This whole biathlon thing is not shaping up very well...
...before I left. When I got home I could send out a preemptive e-mail to everyone whom I (stupidly) had told about the trip. My wife knows me well enough, she wouldn't say a word, she'd just let me sleep it off. Nobody really cares about biathlon anyway. I could make up whatever I want.... Say that I did really well. They wouldn't even be able to find the results of the race on the Internet. They'd just have to take my word for it. Hmmmm... the quitting thing is looking pretty good...
...there it was on my calendar: U.S. Biathlon National Championships, March 22-26, West Yellowstone, Mt. There was a plane ticket, a hotel reservation, a rental car, and about 40 people who knew I was going. I didn't see any way to back out, even though I felt like all the plans had been made by some other guy (a younger, faster, much more eager other guy). In final days before I left, I drove back my growing feelings of doubt with caffeine, a sense of humor, and by "compartmentalizing" my doubts (of course, only criminals and drug addicts...