SUNDAY,FEBRUARY 16, 2014 OPINION N.D. should watch its pipelines PAGE 6C WWW.BISMARCKTRIBUNE.COM ESTABLISHED IN 1873 THE INSIDE STORY VOLUME 140, NUMBER 47 ISSN 0745-1091. Published daily. ABOUT US Established in 1873, the Bismarck Tribune is the official newspaper of the state of North Dakota, county of Burleigh and city of Bismarck. Published daily at 707 E. Front Ave., Bismarck, N.D. 58504. Periodicals postage paid at the Bismarck Post Office. Member of The Associated Press. SUBSCRIBER SERVICES Delivery deadline: 6 a.m. Monday-Saturday; 7 a.m. Sunday. Redeliveries in Bismarck- Mandan: 10 a.m. Monday-Friday; 11 a.m. Saturday-Sunday. Call 701-250-8210. When going on vacation, call 701-250-8210 or 877-590-6397 to save or donate to the Newspapers in Education program. TO SUBSCRIBE Call Customer Service at 701-250-8210 or 877-590-6397 from 4:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 4:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday-Sunday. We can also be reached online at www.bismarcktribune.com. LET US HELP Call the Tribune 24 hours a day From a mall to Olympic glory at 701-223-2500. Office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday- Friday. Information . 701-223-2500 17-year-old from Circulation . 701-250-8210 Toll free . 800-472-2273 the Philippines Classified fax . 701-250-0195 Email, [email protected] shows he belongs or [email protected] By TIM DAHLBERG SHARE YOUR NEWS AP Senior Sports Writer News . 701-250-8247 Obituaries. 701-250-8240 SOCHI, Russia — Michael Mar- Sports . 701-250-8243 Hometown . 701-250-8242 tinez nailed the bow at the end. Capitol Bureau. 701-223-8242 Four bows, to be exact, though no one could blame him. He didn’t BILLING QUESTIONS seem to want to leave the ice Thurs- For billing concerns with retail day night, and no one was going to and classified ads, call 701-223- blame him for that, either. 2500, ext. 312 from 8 a.m. to This wasn’t the shopping mall in 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. the Philippines, where he learned his PLACING AN AD jumps and spins while trying to To place an ad, phone the avoid parents and their kids skating appropriate number from by on family outings. This was the 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday- Iceberg Skating Palace and this was Friday: Classified, 701-258-6900 the Olympics, where the teenager or 866-476-5348; Display, was desperate for the skate of his 701-250-8290. young life. MANAGEMENT He had less than 3 minutes to Brian Kroshus, publisher prove himself in the short program . 701-250-8299 and make it to the men’s free skate Terry Alveshere, online manager final. 701-255-2127, ext. 231 If he didn’t, he might have to be Ken Bohl, circulation manager thinking about the next step, per- . 701-250-8203 haps working for his family raising Stace Gooding, systems administrator vegetables to sell to Japan. 701-355-8800 The expenses had become too Chad Kourajian, human resources much. The mall had contributed manager . 701-250-8272 some money, but in the aftermath of Libby Simes, financial services Typhoon Haiyan there wasn’t much manager . 701-250-8202 the government could do for a figure Lisa Weisz, advertising director skater, the nation’s only competitor . 701-250-8232 in Sochi. Stacey Lang, marketing manager The family home had already . 701-250-8201 been mortgaged to pay for his skat- Steve Wallick, city editor . 701-250-8247 ing. There was no more to give. Ken Rogers, editorial page editor “We’re hoping he makes it and . 701-250-8250 some companies support him,” said Dan Tipton, post-press manager his mother, Maria Teresa Martinez. 701-355-8808 “Otherwise he will just have to stop. Mike Severson, press manager We cannot afford it anymore. It’s just . 701-355-8808 so expensive and we can’t do anoth- er four years.” POSTMASTER In a sequined and braided black Send address changes to: and white outfit donated by a design- Bismarck Tribune er in New York who saw his Facebook P.O. Box 5516 plea for proper Olympic attire, Mar- Bismarck, N.D. 58506-5516 tinez took the biggest stage of his life, CORRECTIONS skating just two spots before the If you spot an error that great Evgeni Plushenko was sup- significantly changes the meaning posed to go in front of a capacity of any Tribune news story, call the crowd at the Olympic arena. city editor at 701-250-8247. He acknowledged the polite applause, gliding to the center of the ice. He paused, struck a pose, and then began the most important Associated Press skate of his career. TOP: Michael Christian Martinez of the Philippines practices during a training session at the Iceberg “I was so nervous,” he said. “This Skating Palace ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics on Feb. 5 in Sochi, Russia. CENTER and ABOVE: was such a big event.” Martinez competes in the men’s short program figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace He had reason to be. At 17, he is during the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday. the youngest skater in the program POWERBALL and the only Filipino figure skater Preparation, though, only counts said. “I missed just one jump but the Nearby, though, some of the other Saturday: 2-9-14-21-23 ever in the Olympics. Powerball: 3 so much. So on his Facebook page, rest of the program was good.” early skaters were struggling. Some Jackpot: $332.3 million Still, Martinez was sure he would Martinez asked his friends to “Please In the kiss-and-cry area, Martinez fell trying jumps, others made mis- prevail. The gangly kid with the mop pray for me.” waved his jacket with “Philippines” takes that lowered their scores. MEGA MILLIONS of black hair had to, because this has He began his skate by hitting a on the back to the crowd, drawing Plushenko himself fell on a triple Friday: Friday: 20-28-35-71-72 been his life ever since he walked by nice triple axel, drawing applause cheers. He sat with the Russian coach axel in warm-ups, hurting his back Mega Ball: 7 the rink in the Manila mall at the age from the crowd. But on his second his mother — who learned skating and ending his bid to add another Jackpot: $139 million of 9, saw the skaters, and declared to jump he didn’t finish the rotation on along with her son so she could save medal on home ice to the four he HOT LOTTO his mother that this was something a triple lutz and triple toe loop, low- money by coaching him herself — already won. Saturday: 18-24-27-37-45 he wanted to do. ering his marks from the judges. had hired for him, flashing a thumbs- Suddenly, the math was starting Hot Lotto: 3 He fell on his behind that day, but But his spins were good, the rest of up sign as his score was posted. to look good. It wasn’t official yet, but Jackpot: $3.49 million that didn’t stop him from coming the program nicely skated. Most It was 64.81, his best ever. But Mar- Martinez had made it in. He went on WILD CARD back the next. Neither did the asth- importantly, he didn’t look like a tinez would have to wait again to find to finish in 20th place on Friday. Saturday: 3-9-17-21-24 ma that put him in the hospital 17-year-old making his Olympic out whether it would be good enough “I feel like a real champion,” he Wild Card: Queen of Hearts many times and kept him from play- debut. to be one of the top 24 skaters who said after that Thursday night per- Jackpot: $270,000 ing sports outdoors. In 2 minutes and 39 seconds, make it to the free skate. formance. 2BY2 “I WILL make the free skate,” he Martinez showed he belonged. And “I think so, maybe half and half,” For one night at the Olympics, Saturday declared after practice the night now all there was to do was to wait. he said. “I’m a little confident, but that’s exactly what the kid from the Red Balls: 4-16 before. “Because I am prepared.” “I’m very happy and proud,” he then I’m not.” mall was. White Balls: 6-9.