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SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia —
Fwo shadows — one cast by the
sligibility dispute and the other
applied by Canada to super cen-
er Pat LaFontaine — have vir
tually eclipsed United States
chances for a repeat hockey
gold medal.
Canada made the United
States’ 1984 Winter Olympic
debut a rough one Tuesday
with a 4-2 decision. Carey Wil
son scored three goals and as
sisted on the fourth, but subtler
factors that contributed to the
defeat were the emotion gener
ated by the fuss over the Ca
nadian roster plus containment
of the United States’ best
player.
“I don’t think it had any ef
fect on us, but it may have
worked for Canada,” U.S.
Coach Lou Vairo said of the eli
gibility dispute that cost Canada
the services of center Mark
Morrison and defenseman Don
Dietrich. “They were fired up
and played with great inten
sity.”
By contrast, the Americans
were strangely flat considering
the situation. It was a game they
could have won and only David
A. Jensen, with two opportunis
tic goals, showed much spark.
Now a medal of any kind seems
unlikely, since the Americans
must still face powerful Czecho
slovakia and Finland in prelimi
nary play.
“You gotta Finish first or sec
ond in your division for a medal
and that isn’t settled yet,” Vairo
said, refusing to admit the dan
ger of the team’s position. Jen
sen’s linemates on the young
“Diaper Line”, 17-year-old Ed
Olczyk and 18-year-old LaFon
taine, combined for some
chances, but the checking of
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Dave Tippett forced Vairo into
a strategy that diminished La-
Fontaine’s effectiveness.
“I told him before the game
that if they did that (shadowed
him) he should shadow one of
their players and tie up two of
their players,” Vairo said.
“There’s nothing else you can
do.”
Wilson set up a goal by Pat
Flatley 27 seconds into the
game, immediately establishing
Canada’s credibility and betray
ing shakiness on the part of
goalie Marc Behrend.
“Anytime you’re in a single
game situation it’s important to
get the first goal, the confidence
goal,” admitted Vairo. “To play
to full ability you have to play to
full intensity and we weren’t at
full intensity.”
“The early goal helped us a
great deal,” agreed King. “One
of the things it did was keep us
from falling behind, and that’s
important for us. We don’t
score goals easily.”
Despite dropping Morrison
and Dietrich, Canada used
three of the players affected by
the eligibility dispute. The IOC
ruled Monday that players who
have signed NHL contracts are
ineligible. Goalie Mario Gosse-
lin, who has signed with the
Quebec Nordiques, was a factor
in containing the Americans in
the second period.
After the game, Canadian
hockey czar Alan Eagleson dis
missed the controversy, saying
it was over and that the Ca
nadian roster had been con
firmed by the International Ice
Hockey Federation.
To his credit, Vairo avoided
bringing up sour grapes and in
stead praised the Canadian ef
fort.
“The Canadian team should
be congratulated for playing a
great game,” he said. “They de
served to win. They outplayed
us. We didn’t play up to our abi
lities.”
i ABC-TV EXECUTIVE
Professional athletes
in Winter Olympics
Aggie
golfer is
medalist
United Press International
WEST COLUMBIA —Texas
A&M’s Phillip Parkin main
tained a four-stroke lead
through the final 27 holes to
capture medalist honors at the
third annual Columbia Lakes
Intercollegiate golf tourna
ment. Parkin’s total for the
tournament’s 54-holes was 218.
The nation’s No. 1 ranked
golf team, the University of
Houston, Monday rode senior
Steve Russell’s two-day total of
222 to capture the team title.
Texas A&M placed second 12
strokes back of the Cougars.
Russell, from Amarillo,
claimed second place in the
medalist competition, while the
Cougars posted a 54-hole total
of 1,161. TCU placed third with
1,202, Southwest Texas State
had 1,213 and Rice had 1,226.
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press International
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia —
By the 1992 Winter Carnes, or
even possibly by the very next
ones in Calgary, Canada, you’re
going to see something no one
has ever seen before. An open
Olympics.
Open to everyone, amateurs
and professionals alike.
And if you ask me, that will
constitute a decisive step in the
right direction because it auto
matically will eliminate much of
the sham going on among all of
the competing nations, includ
ing the United States, and will
do away with the kind of con
troversy detracting from these
games at the moment over
hockey’s Olympic eligibility
rules.
Alan Eagleson, who wields
more control over amateur and
professional hockey than any
one else in North America as
promoter of international con
tests and executive director of
the NHL’s Players Association,
called for an Open Ice Hockey
Olympics Monday.
He said he would’ve had
Wayne Gretzky playing here
right now had these Olympics
been open to professionals.
Gretzky is playing with the Ed
monton Oilers at the moment,
but Eagleson would’ve gotten
him and a representative collec
tion of NHL All-Stars here to
participate as Team Canada.
Eagleson is that powerful.
But he said he wasn’t going to
waste his time bringing Gretzky
and other NHL professionals to
the Olympics when the Carnes
were beset with the sort of “con
fused circumstances” they are at
present. He’s talking about the
problems they’re having re
garding what constitutes an am
ateur player as defined by the
Olympic rules.
The whole thing is a big joke
now.
In Europe, all first division
ice hockey leagues in Sweden,
Finland, Czechoslovakia and
West Germany pay their play
ers. The average annual salary
for a West German player is
$50,000, lax free, plus a car and
an apartment. Erich Kuehn-
haeckel, a naturalized West
German citizen born in Czecho
slovakia, makes $200,000 a
year. But the 6-foot-6, 215-
pound center is still considered
an “amateur” by the Interna
tional Ice Hockey Federation
and Olympic Committee and is
playing here for West Ger
many.
By contrast, Mark Morrison,
who played nine games with the
New York Rangers two years
ago and makes $15,000 a year,
is one of the Canadian Olympi
ans being challenged by the
United Slates and Finland as a
professional.
Reluctantly, the Canadians
withdrew Morrison, their fast
est center, because of his NHL
puis it into a trust fundim® B;
competitor turns pro or rcB
What’s so amateurish
that?
Mi’s wi
Hits whole thing
nonsensical that even the if (
rials involved talk out
sides of their mouth whenffi^^
ps>
discuss amateurism.
Whether he intended ml, ^ ,
not, Eagleson offered evid« r ^ ec
of that b>
jy recounting a p j hard
of the conversation he had* °“|q or
an international hockei
resenlative. ■man
“As one fellow said toK eer i a
‘we’re not worried abotT| iroer
money so much, we're w Student
about the principle,’" Eaj»Schr
related. Bee ca
One of the few rem a reatT
champions of pure amaif task of f
is William Simon, Presid MRS de
the United Slates 01 whoare
Committee. He’s beating; andwor
horse, however, and I thi both wc
knows it. Even he admits0|Beer.
competition is coming.
The average annual
salary for a West Ger
man player is $50,000,
tax free, plus a car and
an apartment. Erich
Kuehnhaeckel, a natu
ralized West German
citizen born in Czecho
slovakia, makes
$200,000 a year.
Som
“Kuehnhaeckel makes 200
grand and Mark Morrison 15,
and Morrison is a professional,”
Eagleson snorted. “That doesn’t
make sense.”
It certainly doesn’t. The ri
diculousness of the situation
isn’t limited to ice hockey, ei
ther. Skiers aren’t allowed to
negotiate for endorsement
money but they get substantial
amounts from their feder
ations. What happens is that the
ets the
federation gets the money and
Hockey players are (
much the same world ®‘ UI
They aren’t nearly asconceB' 0 hi
with rules and politics as a 1311 SU P
are with such things»as B,.j ^
goals and drinking beer. \l:L ion ,,
that’s why the ones here,piB
ularly the Americans, had| 1(
minimal interest, if any, icB '
big uproar over amateureliffipchrc
lity. about tl:
“I don’t even think our jtypically
is thinking about it," shruBvelop
Scott Bjugstad, one oftheilg
wards on Team USA wh j
the Western Collegiate H:<|[ 0 |^ n
Association last season pH..-] ^
with the University of (
sota. "It really doesn’t ffip
much difference to us what if*
finally rule.”
In 1980, when theAnttnl
players upset the Russiantj
win the gold, they were[
$7,200 apiece. Thatwasf
penses, and it irritated
when they found out theitl
nadian counterparts
$10,000. But the Cana*
told them to calm down,
minding them of the differ
in the exchange rate,
Soviets sign '84 Summer
Olympics TV agreement
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The So
viet Union signed a $3 million
television contract Tuesday to
broadcast the 1984 Summer
Olympics in its country and 15
others, another strong indica
tion the Soviets and their allies
will compete in the Games.
The signing at the Winter
Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugosla
via, was announced by the Los
Angeles Olympic Organizing
Committee.
The Soviets have hinted
strongly that they will compete
in the Summer Games, but have
not officially accepted the
LAOOC’s invitation. Soviet
sports officials said the final de
cision would not be annotiM
until June 2, but Tuesday's^
cial signing was seen as a po*
ful sign of the Soviets’inteaii
to participate in the Olympia
The announcement ®
one day after a senior
member of the Intenaitf
Olympic Committee surpii*
Los Angeles Olympic ofi
by paying tribute to
LAOOC for doing “an excel
job.”
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