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BySusanKanode RENO, NEVADA Asold-outcrowd of over 8,600 got to see the Reno Rodeo Champions crowned on Saturday night. There was one repeat cham- pion from last year, saddle bronc rider Heith DeMoss. The Heflin, La., cowboy came into Satur- day night's championship finals in second place but had an out- standing 83-point ride to over- take leader Taos Muncy from Corona, N.M. DeMoss had a to- tal score of 247 points and won $8,328. Two-time world cham- pion Muncy finished second with 242. Hunter Herrin was the big money winner at this year's ro- deo. The Apache, Okla., resident had a narrow lead in the Pro- fessional Rodeo Cowboys Asso- ciation World Standings of less than $1,500 prior to the rodeo here. Now, his margin will be significantly better thanks to the $13,767 that will be added to it. Herrin placed in both prelimi- nary rounds of competition and had command of the lead com- ing into the final round. He never wavered and made a solid 9.2-second run. That gave him a total of 25.3 seconds on three runs. Riley Pruitt, a sec- ond generation rodeo cowboy from Gering, Neb., finished sec- ond with 26.2 seconds. Clayton Biglow had the ride of his life to win the bareback rid- ing title. Biglow entered the final round in first place and sealed the deal with an 89.5-point ride on Flying U Rodeo's Lil Red Hawk. That was the highest- marked ride of the 20-year-old's career. He ended up winning the title with a total score of 253.5 points. Biglow, from Clements got the spurs for a total of 253.5 points. Ty Breuer, from Mandan, N.D., finished in second with 242. The money they each got was critical for them. Biglow has set goals of winning the rookie-of-the-year title, qualifying for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and winning a world title. He just fin- ished as reserve champion at the College National Finals Rodeo last week. He came into the Reno Ro- deo leading the rookie stand- ings and 11th in the world stand- ings. The $10,277 he won here will move him well inside the top 10. Breuer was 22nd prior to Reno and needed the win to give him an opportunity to qualify for his second NFR. Olin Hannum became the third member of his family to earn a pair of spurs this year. He finished first in the steer wrestling with a total time of 12.5 seconds and won $10,916. His younger brother Jake has a set of spurs for winning the all- around title in 2007. His father, the late Jack Hannum won the steer wrestling in 1983. The tra- dition of the championship spurs goes back to the 1950s and they are some of the most sought af- ter awards in rodeo. "I've wanted to win this rodeo and get these spurs for a long time," Hannum said. "My brother and dad each have a pair and I've always wanted a pair too." Other winners here were team ropers, Garrett Tonozzi from Fruita, Colo., and Wyatt Cox from Aroyo Grande, Calif., Stevi Hill- man, Weatherford, Texas in the barrel race and Nevada native Markus Mariluch who now lives in Daingerfield, Texas, in the bull riding. The Reno Rodeo is tradition- ally the start of all the summer rodeos. It marks the beginning of "Cowboy Christmas" over the Fourth-of-July where there is more money up for grabs than any other week of the season. Winning at the Reno Rodeo of- ten builds momentum for contes- tants as they start Cowboy Christ- mas. This year's total payoff here was $488,939. RODEO DeMosswinsconsecutivesaddlebronctitlesatReno By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press LONDON Marcus Willis orig- inally was scheduled to spend Monday teaching tennis to a group of 5-to-10-year-old kids, among others, at Warwick Boat Club in central England. Instead, Willis wound up with grander, and more lucra- tive, plans: playing — and win- ning! — a match at Wimbledon. And on Wednesday, Wil- lis' students will need to find a substitute yet again, because he will be busy at the All Eng- land Club, standing across the net from none other than Roger Federer in the second round. Now there's something to brag about to friends: "The guy who coaches me is playing Fe- derer at Wimbledon." Quite surreal, to choose the pitch-perfect word Willis used more than once to describe the series of events that brought him to this point. He is, af- ter all, a 25-year-old with ad- mittedly something of a beer gut who resides with his par- ents — "Living the dream," Wil- lis joked — makes about $40 an hour for giving tennis les- sons when he's not competing at local club tournaments, is ranked 772nd and never had played a tour-level match un- til Monday. His 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over 54th-ranked Ricardo Be- rankis before a wildly support- ive and singing crowd of fellow Brits at tiny Court 17 was by far the most intriguing devel- opment on Day 1 of the grass- court Grand Slam tournament. There were ho-hum straight- set victories for past champi- ons Federer, Novak Djokovic and Venus Williams, for exam- ple, and a half-dozen exits by lower-seeded players. Willis truly made news, be- coming the worst-ranked qual- ifier to reach the second round at any major since No. 923 Jared Palmer at the 1988 U.S. Open. "One of the best stories in a long time in our sport," said Fe- derer, who beat Guido Pella 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 6-3 in his return to Grand Slam tennis after miss- ing the French Open with a bad back. WIMBLEDON TENNIS TEACHER RANKED 772ND WINS; FEDERER NEXT ADAMDAVY—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Britain's Marcus Willis, the world number 772, celebrates his victory over 54th-ranked Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis 6-36-36-4on day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Monday. By Jenny Barchfield The Associated Press RIODEJANEIRO Rio de Janeiro's acting governor warned Monday that the Olympic Games could be a "big failure," because of budget shortfalls that threaten to compromise security and mo- bility during the games. In an interview with Rio's O Globo daily, Francisco Dornelles said the state is still awaiting a 2.9 billion Brazilian real ($860 million) payout from the federal government aimed at shoring up state coffers ahead of the Aug. 5-21 event. The funds were allo- cated last week but have not yet reached the state, and Dornelles warned that without them, po- lice patrols may grind to a halt by the end of the week, for lack of gas money. "How are people going to feel protected in a city without se- curity," Dornelles was quoted as asking. "I'm optimistic about the games, but I have to show re- ality," he said. "We can have a great Olympics, but if some steps aren't taken, it can be a big failure." Rio has been particularly hard-hit by the recession beset- ting Brazil, which saw the econ- omy shrink by around 4 percent last year and joblessness spike. The state is highly reliant on sinking oil royalties, and prior governments awarded billions in tax exemptions that resulted in near-empty coffers. Another worrying issue for Dornelles is the metro line that was meant to ferry tourists to the main Olympic venue in the far-western Rio area of Barra da Tijuca. Promised for late last year, the metro is still not ready. A nearly 1 billion real ($290 mil- lion) federal loan aimed at fin- ishing the project has also not yet been released. OLYMPICS Am id crisis, Rio gov. warns Olympics could be 'big failure' By Dave Skretta The Associated Press The standard training tool for cycling coaches for decades has been the stopwatch, a quaintly in- consistent barometer that could tell how fast a rider was complet- ing a segment of work. These days they're little more than a prop. USA Cycling is pushing the lim- its of training technology in the run-up to the Rio Olympics, first with a revolutionary track bike that took years of design, then with proprietary hardware and software they can use to better gauge how well their athletes are training in the months leading up to the Summer Games. "We are always looking for technologies to improve and push the limits of our athletes' perfor- mance," said Andy Sparks, direc- tor of the U.S. track cycling pro- gram, "especially aiming at our goal for gold in Rio." The bike from manufacturer Felt, with its odd-looking left- side drivetrain, is what viewers at home will notice in August. But smart glasses from Solos com- bined with custom, cloud-based software from IBM have become an integral part of training — and could ultimately be the secret to their success. The software integrates every- thing from heart-rate monitors to power meters while tracking standard data such as speed. It then puts the information in a format that allows coaches to ex- amine it immediately. The data is likewise streamed to the smart glasses, worn by the riders in the midst of a work session. USA Cycling vice president Jim Miller called the hardware-soft- ware combination "a cutting-edge tool" that is especially helpful for the women's pursuit team, which heads to Rio as the heavy favor- ite to win gold. Work on the project began nearly two years ago, when USA Cycling met with officials from IBM. The problem they presented was this: Coaches could capture biometric and power data, but it was on a computer mounted to the bike, and often it would take hours before the data could be up- loaded and analyzed. "Sometimes it would take the multiple days to give feedback on that training session," said Randy Wilcox, who spearheaded the pro- gram for IBM. "So the first prob- lem was to get the analytics to the athletes when they needed it, which is immediately after a training session." IBM solved that problem by creating a cloud-based app, run off an iPhone, that syncs to the different hardware on the bike — power meters, heart-rate mon- itors and the like. The setup al- lows the data to be sent to coaches in real time, then shared with the riders the moment they dismount from the bike. So, if Chloe Dygert was going too hard during a session, they could instruct her to dial it back. If Sarah Hammer was wasting en- ergy during a particular segment, they could determine right away why it was happening. And with the pursuit team, where riders shuffle from front to back in an attempt to keep the freshest rid- USA CYCLING Relying on high-tech training tools ahead of Rio CYCLING PAGE 2 OLYMPICS PAGE 2 Lowest qualifier to move on since 1988 ALASTAIR GRANT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Roger Federer of Switzerland returns to Guido Pella of Argentina during their men's singles match on day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Monday. WIMBLEDON PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Tuesday, June 28, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1