Cars splash through the water on 600 South and State Streets in Salt Lake City after heavy rains hit northern Utah on Sunday, August 1, 2021. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY – Here are 10 stories you might have missed over the weekend. As always, click the headline to read the full story.
1. Rain, floods affect Utahners across the state
Another round of storms swept across Utah on Sunday, causing flash floods and flooded roads.
July 2nd was the hottest month ever in Salt Lake City
July 2021 was the hottest month ever at Salt Lake City International Airport, breaking a record previously set in July 2017.
3. Man, 25, dies after being hit by a car in Holladay
A 25-year-old man died Sunday after being hit by a car on the Van Winkle Expressway.
4. Man dies after head-on collision in Heber City
A man died Sunday afternoon after a head-on collision on US 189 in Heber City.
5. Trooper, motorists injured in accident on I-215 in West Valley City
A Utah Highway Patrol sergeant and several others were hospitalized Sunday morning following an accident on I-215.
Mykayla Skinner of the United States poses after winning the silver medal for the jump in the women’s gymnastics apparatus finals at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Sunday, August 1, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko, Associated Press)
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1. Olympic dream ‘done’: MyKayla Skinner wins silver in the jump
In the end it was a picture book that ended with all the twists and turns of a film. From being named the team’s substitute in 2016, to contracting COVID-19 and pneumonia when she made her comeback as the oldest female gymnast competing for the United States, to qualifying for the jump finals, it was all part of the long road to one remarkable end of her career.
2. Jazz Free Agency Primer: Utah has an owner willing to spend, but what exactly are the options?
Before fans start fantasizing about Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul – both turned down massive player options to become unrestricted free agents – and arranging meetings with Utah, there’s one caveat to all of this: there are still capping rules on those too are to be followed, and the jazz has no cap room any.
3. Real Salt Lake plays goalless against Houston
Two months after a 1-1 draw at Rio Tinto Stadium, Real Salt Lake and Houston Dynamo FC played to another draw on Saturday night at Houston’s BBVA Compass Stadium – this time goalless.
4. Slimmed-down Taysom Hill in arms race with Jameis Winston for Saints starters
Hill is in a race for starting quarterback as the former BYU quarterback, who spent much of his off-season in Utah, and his homeland of Pocatello, Idaho, join Jameis Winston to succeed one of the most legendary quarterbacks in New history Line up Orleans.
5. Utah Olympians: Herrimans Rhyan White wins medal with tier relay
Rhyan White from Herriman will leave Tokyo with a silver medal after the Americans finished second in the 4×100 tier relay. White didn’t swim in the final, where the US was only overtaken by Australia in the end, but she did swim in the qualifying race to win a medal.
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