The third annual Atlas Open Weightlifting Competition was held at Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa on Sunday morning. Held in a large tent outdoors on the tennis courts at Arden Hills, the event began early with scattered groups of family supporters, and the number of spectators grew larger and filled the tent as the competition heated up. The event is put on by the strength and conditioning instructors at the resort club, and has grown each year since the inaugural competition. Talented local athletes competed in two Olympic lifts: the “snatch” and the “clean and jerk.” In each event, lifters are given three attempts to lift as much weight as possible over their heads." Lifters spanned a

 Dominic Cooke was a normal college student athlete until a car crash his senior year paralyzed him. It doesn’t stop him however, from hand cycling in a triathlon. Cooke, 30, was injured when he was 22 years old. His athletic ability and passion for helping other hurt athletes is what made him start “Team TFO” this year for the 37th annual Eppie’s Great Race. TFO — which stands for Try for Others — is a nonprofit organization Cooke created in 2005 to aid injured athletes. “I played rugby before here in Sacramento at Jesuit High School and then at UC Berkeley,” Cooke said. “I was getting a lot of phone calls from injured rugby players. We help them with their immediate medical needs.”