Kearns • Lana Gehring was on track to punch her ticket to Pyeongchang, South Korea, only a few laps left to skate, when she went crashing into the wall at the Utah Olympic Oval.
The pile-up in the finals of the women’s 1,500-meter race might have derailed a less experienced skater. Gehring, however, wasn’t about to let her opportunity slip away.
“I was a little riled up about it. I didn’t like why we fell,” Gehring said Friday night. “But for myself, it helped me reset a little bit.”
Gehring survived the crash and fought off fellow Olympic hopeful Jessica Kooreman to become the first U.