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Tom Kirkland Reporting They are midway through day 12 of the Winter Games in Torino. It's the day an Orem girl's been dreaming about for more than four years, and she's close to gold. We're talking fractions of a second.
Orem's Shauna Rohbock was this close to being the pusher for the USA number 2 sled in the Salt Lake 2002 games. At the last minute, she was bumped for Vonetta Flowers. Flowers and Jill Bakken went on to win the gold medal in the first Olympic women's bobsleigh event.
But the pride of Orem's battled all the way back, changing to a bobsleigh driver. Right now, along with Valerie Fleming, the USA I sled's sitting in the bronze medal spot, but just nine one-hundredths of a second off the gold medal spot with tonight's last two runs left.
That would be a huge story for a U.S. olympic team that's desperate for good news.
Speaking of locals to pull for, this weekend it's the men's four-man bobsleigh event. Oakley's Steve Holcomb is making his Olympic debut as the driver for USA II in that event.
And as with many of our local Olympians, it's a family affair. Steve and "Big Steve" share the credit for Holcomb making it all the way to the Olympics.
Part of Holcomb's four-man team is Ogden's Billy Shuffenhauer, looking to add to the silver medal he won at the Utah Olympic Park back in 2002.
Those are three of the real, native Utahns to pull for as the final week continues.
