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Monday, February 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13 mpic hockey disputed United Press International iJARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — The team latpuilt a love af fair with an entire nation i 1880 now stands as the trigger that Hed off an international hockey con- •oversy. •Ai the result of threatened action by the ■kl States against neighboring Canada |the issue of player eligibility, Finland lit the messy aff air into the open Sun- y filing a formal protest with the Inter nal Olympic Committee. ^^^■ius,one day before the U.S. and Cana- ^^■eel on the ice at Zetra Stadium in the ^^■ng program of the 14th Winter Olym- ^^^pgame that will be marked by certain lity, the IOC will be called upon to issue jty decision concerning its official de- ition of what constitutes an amateur. hatever the outcome, it is not the kind ight scenario the U.S. expected when it h defense of its marvelous “Miracle On e”|of four years ago at Lake Placid. Ih a ruling expected Monday, the Eligi- ty Committee of the IOC could decide to is many as 10 players, including four tdians, for having signed professional rads, or it can ease its restrictions and ige the rules for 1988. If it does, this Bdgive the U.S. and Canada a degree of ■y ar( i |uality with those Eastern European coun- tond Hwhere all players are professionals, but high I considered amateur. ■The IOC, at a press conference, will Bicate whatever conclusion they come to,” plactoiH Col. Don Miller, the secretary general of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Sunday even ing following a closed door meeting. “I must remain optimistic. It will be re solved by the IOC and whatever the resolu tion is we will follow. “Our interest in this matter was to assure we are following the rules as disseminated by the IOC. If they want to change those rules, fine, we will abide by them.” Asked if he anticipated a change in amateur rules, Miller said, “There’s always that possibility. Many people are looking at many different alternatives and whatever the results are the U.S. will accept.” Earlier in the day, Alan Eagleson, the chief negotiator for the Canadian team, said, “Let’sjust pray and hope it goes away.” That was the magic solution preferred by the leaders of the Amateur Hockey Associa tion of the U.S., as well as the team, but the issue was brought out by Finland, upset when the IOC ruled its goaltender, Hannu Kamppuri, ineligible. Kamppuri had played one game with Edmonton in the World Hockey Association in 1978-79. Finland decided that equal justice could be served only by filing the formal protest. The U.S. has touched off the controversy when it indicated it might challenge at least four of the Canadian players, claiming they have signed professional contracts. These include goalie Mario Gosselin, who has signed with the Quebec Nordiques, forward Mark Morrison, who played nine games with the New York Rangers, and minor leaguers Dan Wood and Don Dietrich. The Canadians, in turn, accused the U.S. of using professionals in their gold medal effort at Lake Placid. The Finns got into the act by protesting the eligibility of three Canadians, three Au strians, two Italians, one West German and one Norwegian. “It’s for Ripley’s (Believe it or Not),” offered Sam Pollock, chairman of Hockey Canada. “The Russians are coming here with their full team and Norway’s getting protested. Everyone signs a contract. The Czechs signs, the West Germans sign, the Russians sign. Everybody knows they sign contracts.” At the center of the dispute is the defini tion of an amateur. Canada claims any one with less than 11 games in the NHL retains his amateur status while U.S. officials con tend that all it takes is the signing of a pro contract. Larry Johnson, general manager of the U.S. team, offered the opinion that every one would be allowed to play, with a change of rules coming along in 1988. Still, he added, “Anyone with a signed professional contract is ineligible. Whatever they do ab out this is completely up to them (the eligi bility committee). “We just want to play the game. We don’t give a damn about all this protesting. We’re not against what the Canadians are doing. We just want the same rules applied to everyone.” TANK MCNAMARA f Witq A P/M1EC OLYVIPICA, we view, rdi& ie>7wv)K IKJ 600G005-LOVIA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds merican skier has best run S s s s s s S v* FORT SHILOH 5 MINUTE LUNCH -Chicken Fried Steak Choice of Potato Dinner Salad Texas Toast (Guaranteed in 5 minutes from the time of order or its free!) Also serving during lunch: vegetable buffet Lunch 11-2 M-F 2528 Texas Ave. S. $3.95 fort United Press International ^SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — a ong-awaited overnight snowfall inally brought smiles to the Hsofworried Olympic ski rac- ingbfficials Sunday and set the He for a scorching run by | American Bill Johnson. Johnson, apparently in train- Hfor his role as the spoiler on [he decidedly tame layout, W which drops 803 meters along sedkHpeed control gates, clocked n Mm (he day’s best practice time of 1 edikajiinute, 47.99 seconds. Johnson finished nearly half second quicker than Swiss rac- Peter Mueller, who almost en- his downhill career on the e slope a year ago when he ashed at Sarajevo, suffering Id injuries. EighieeBAustrian ace Franz Klammer 17 a had Ins problems with the new mow. The 30-year-old Klam- i gotii mer, a favorite to repeat his 1976 plicat downhill gold, went off the idilo'tBrse Sunday during training pie sf for Thursday’s Olympic dow- I theiHll and ended up in the net ting. heme®Austria’ national ski idol, ex- rhef tluded from his nation’s Lake e the Placid team four years ago, went eonet out of the running after he lost ISitrol on the s-turn midway ifthel- [own the 3.7 kilometer Olympic otirse. tructed he ediif line n alien »i i the si “I did the splits, recovered but had to brake when I went into the soft new snow on the side,” a disgusted Klammer said after his subpar performance. What was trouble to Klam mer was a delight to Olympic organizers, whose optimistic prayers and promises of snow on the way finally came true Saturday night. Officials said the Bjelasnica course, site of all men’s alpine racing during the two-week long Games, received an average of 4-6 inches of fresh snow which required packing. Klammer made his unsche duled high-speed exit on the troublesome s-turn, which had a layer of ice for course crews to contend with before practice be gan Sunday. Mueller tied for practice day second with Austrian Helmut Hoeflehner, the winner at Corti na d’Ampezzo, Italy, three days ago. Mueller said the new snow required a change of technique. . “On new snow like this, you have to glide a lot,” Mueller said. “Standing too hard on the skies only makes you lose time. My chances for victory are good if there’s decent weather.” Johnson said the new-found surface was fine by him. “It’ll be alright for the race,” he said. “You gotta take what you get in a race. I tried to stay down in a tuck as much as possi ble but I had a little trouble in the fall-away righthand turns.” For the second day in a row, officials had to stop the training session due to low fog at the bot tom section of the course. The first interruption came when less than half of the 78 competi tors had come down. 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