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CU's Petra Hyncicova finishes second Olympic race

Colorado senior women's Nordic skier Petra Hyncicova, competing with the Czech Republic cross country ski team over in PyeongChang, completed her second race at the 2018 Winter Olympics Tuesday.

In the Ladies' Sprint Classic Qualification heat, she finished 45th out of 68 competitors with a time of 3:32.03 in the 1.25K race at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre.

The top 30 finishers from the qualification round moved on to the quarterfinals and Hyncicova was just eight seconds off of making that.

The races started at 5:30 p.m. local time, 1:30 a.m., on the 1,176-meter course that with the short sprint race required just one lap.