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U.S. figure skaters are under doi
From the Associated Press
Brian Boitano and Debi Thomas
are peaking at the right time. It
might not be enough.
Although they won the U.S. Fig
ure Skating Championships last
month, they are Olympic under
dogs.
Despite four consecutive national
titles and the 1986 world crown, Boi
tano is rated second to current world
champion Brian Orser of Canada.
Thomas, who also won the U.S. and
world championships in 1986, is
ranked behind 1984 Olympic champ
Katarina Witt of East Germany.
Although the United States is
sending one of its strongest figure
skating teams ever to the Winter
Games, only Boitano and Thomas
appear likely to challenge for a gold
medal. Soviet couples are heavy fa
vorites in pairs and dance, although
Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard are
a medal threat in pairs.
Boitano skated unimpressively in
the freestyle at the U.S. champion
ships, yet still won easily and wasn’t
particularly disturbed.
“After all the years I’ve been skat
ing, whether in practice or competi
tion, there have been ups and
downs,” the 24-year-old from Sun
nyvale, Calif., said. “When I’m skat
ing great, I know there will be a fall.
When I’m in a valley, I know I'll
peak again.
“It’s part of the training proce
dure. I’m on schedule for Calgary.”
So is Thomas, or at least she says
she is.
“This year, I’m more ready than
I’ve ever been. That was the plan,”
Thomas, 20, of San Jose, Calif., said.
“I think I can be a lot better at the
Olympics than I was at nationals.
You wouldn’t want your best to be
there. You want to build up to it for
the Olympics.”
Boitano and Thomas are familiar
with the Saddledome, where they
performed in Skate Canada last fall.
Thomas won, while Boitano was sec
ond to Orser.
“Skate Canada was a big step for
me,” Boitano said. “The acceptance
I got from the people, the way I
skated, the chance to get familiar
with the rink . . . that competition
was very important for me.”
Orser, who won the 1987 World
Championship after four straight
runner-up finishes in the major in
ternational events (1984 Olympics
and worlds, 1985 and '86 worlds) has
more flash to his skating. Boitano is
better technically.
The difference could come down
to whether the judges view Orser the
way they did Scott Hamilton in 1984.
Hamilton, who won four straight
world championships, was a lock for
the gold medal at Sarajevo as long as
he didn’t fall. He didn’t and won,
even though Orser skated better in
the short and long programs.
Boitano was fifth at the Sarajevo
Games.
If the judges feel Orser deserves
the same stature as Hamilton — and
with the Olympics on his home ice —
Boitano has little chance.
But Boitano’s freestyle program,
skated to music from TV’s “Napo-
lean and Josephine,” is as difficult as
any skated at an Olympics. If Boi
tano peaks at Calgary, Orser will
need a sparkling routine to heat him.
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Nothing quite compares to Olympic Games!
By Cray Pixley
Sports Writer
Sacrifices must be made. Sixteen days worth of
sacrifices to be precise.
For over two weeks my textbooks will be vir
tually abandoned while I am glued to the tele
vision catching every minute of a sporting event.
But this is not just any
sporting event, this is the
sporting event.
The 1988 Winter
Olympics begin on Feb.
13 in Calgary, Canada,
and for 16 days I become
the ultimate armchair
olympian.
From the lighting of
the Olympic flame to the
closing ceremonies, I can
barely stand to miss a
minute of the competi- Cray Pixley
tion. Sometimes I think I Sports Writer
should get a gold medal for downhill couch-sit
ting.
Watching the games makes me want to run out
and take a trip down the slopes or a tour around
the ice rink. However, this is hard to do when liv
ing in College Station because Mount Aggie isn’t
that challenging.
Ever since Dorothy Hamill won a gold medal
at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Aus
tria, I have been a fanatic about the winter
games. When the U.S. hockey team won the gold
at Lake Placid in 1980 I thought 1 would never
get over the feeling of pride and patriotism for
my country.
But my enthusiasm for the Olympics doesn't
stop with the U.S. team. I cheer for other com
petitors as well.
This time my eyes are set on Swiss skier ex
traordinaire Pirmin Zurbriggen.
Zurbriggen has a solid chance of winning live
medals in Calgary. This past Christmas 1 spent
half my ski trip pretending I was as good a skier
as Zurbriggen — what a fantasy.
1 can’t wait to experience the thrill of victory
and the agony of defeat.
Most of the advance sports reports say the U.S.
Olympic team will be experiencing a full dose of
that agony. Along with the excitement of the
games are gloom and doom news of the United
States failing to grab a load of medals.
The U.S. teams have always turned in good
performances at the winter games but can hardly
be expected to dominate over the European
teams. Many of the European team sports are
centered exclusively around Nordic events and
for training the teams have the advantage of
snow-covered landscapes year-round.
The importance of the Olympics ismJ
the winning of medals but also theima
competition. The competition is what I !ij
citing about the games.
There are some bright spots in thes
dark Olympic cloud for the U.S. team.
Josh Thompson is the first Am ericas toil
shot at a medal in the biathlon. The I
which combines marksmanship and i
try skiing, has never had a strong Amen
lender before.
A medal in the biathlon would beat
the United States.
The U.S. always has a strong Olympkij
skating team, and this team is runnings
form.
U.S. figure skating champion Debil
will battle it out for the gold with East Gem
Katarina Witt, the current world champml
team members Caryn Kadavy and Jill Iq
are also strong medal contenders.
Brian Boitano of the United States is f
to win the men’s Figure skating gold medal
I also have another dream.
The dream is of a repeat performance:
U.S. hockey team’s emotional Lake Placid*
I hope this dream has a chance of realia
Bring on the games — I’m ready.
Two olympians lead
skiers; another one cut
CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (AP) —
Three-time Olympian Tamara McK
inney and 1984 giant slalom gold
medalist Debbie Armstrong head
line an 18-member U.S. Ski Team
that will compete in the Winter
Olympics at Calgary later this
month.
Notable by his absence from the
team announced Wednesday is Bill
Johnson, who won the men’s down
hill gold medal in the 1984 Winter
Games at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
“We all feel sorry for Bill,” U.S.
Ski Team Alpine Director Harald
Schoenhaar said, “but if you take re
sults from this year or last, Bill is the
sixth or seventh man on the team.”
Olympic rules limit a team to four
starters in any Olympic skiing event.
“It would not be fair,” Schoenhaar
said, “to tell an A.J. Kitt or a Jeff Ol- ,
son or a Bill Hudson that they can
not be on the team because we must
put a person who has not finished
higher than them all year on the
team instead.”
Schoenhaar said he thinks John
son still has trouble with his back,
which was operated on during the
off-season.
Schoenhaar admitted the Ameri
can team of nine men and nine
women is not the best in the world,
but “we are going up there to com
pete.”
“We are not ashamed to send ath
letes up there who probably won’t
have chances to win medals,” he
said.
Schoenhaar said that Pam
Fletcher, 25, of Acton, Mass., the
top-ranked American in the down
hill and super giant slalom events,
has the best chance.
Felix McGrath, 24, of Norwich,
Vt., is the top contender on the
men’s side, Schoenhaar said.
McGrath has had three top-10 fin
ishes in slalom and ranks 1 1th in the
World Cup slalom standings.
McKinney, 25, of Olympic Valley,
Calif., who has been sidelined by an
ankle injury since November, will be
appearing in her third Olympics.
She was the 1983 World Cup overall
champion, the only American
woman to win ski racing’s most pres
tigious title, and also has won four
World Cup discipline titles during
her years on the U.S. Ski Team.
Armstrong, 24, of Seattle, won the
gold medal in the giant slalom in the
1984 Winter Games.
She has been hampered by an
early-season knee injury, but has
been pronounced fit for Calgary.
Tiger Shaw, 26, of Stowe, Vt., is
the only male team member with
previous Olympic experience. Shaw,
who competed in the 1984 Games,
won the super-G and combined titles
in the U.S. nationals last season.
Other members of the men’s team
are Bob Ormsby, 24, Tahoe City,
Calif.; Jeff Olson, 22, Bozeman,
Mont.; Bill Hudson, 21, Olympic
Valley, Calif.; A.J. Kitt, 19, Roches
ter, N.Y.; Doug Lewis, 24, Burling
ton, Vt.; Alexander (Sandy) Wil
liams, 24, Rochester, N.Y., and Jack
Miller, 22, Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Also on the women’s squad are Hi
lary Lindh, 18, Juneau, Alaska; Di-
ann Roffe, 20, Williamson, N.Y.;
Beth Madsen, 23, Aspen, Colo.; Ed
ith Thys, 21, Squaw Valley, Calif.;
Heidi Voelker, 18, Pittsfield, Mass.,
and Kristin Krone, 19, Truckee,
Calif.
D.C., Reagan salute
Redskins with parade
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
estimated 600,000 people
jammed Pennsylvania Avenue
and cheered themselves hoarse
Wednesday as the Super Bowl
Champion Washington Redskins
drove by in buses surrounded by
marching bands and public offi
cials.
It didn’t rain on the parade, as
weather forecasters had pre
dicted, but afterward President
Reagan showered the team with
praise in a ceremony at the White
House.
“The Redskins didn’t simply
enter the history books Sunday
night — they rewrote them,” Rea
gan said, referring to the 14 Su
per Bowl records Washington
equaled or tied in its 42-10 victory
over the Denver Broncos. “What
else is there to say but Hail to the
Redskins!”
The Redskins reciprocated by
giving Reagan a jersey with his
name and the number 1 on it and
a Super Bowl football.
“Where’s Ricky Sanders?”
asked Reagan, referring to the
wide receiver who had a record
193 receiving yards. Sanders im
mediately jumped from the
makeshift stage, cut across the
grass on the South Lawn, and
then hauled in a Reagan pass
from about 10 yards away.
The focus of the parade,
meanwhile, was quarterback
Doug Williams, who was voted
the Most Valuable Player in the
Super Bowl.
“Three years ago, there was
only one football team that gave
me an opportunity to plai
that was the Washing#
Redskins,” Williams said from'
hind the podium on thestepi
City Hall at the rally following
parade. “That MVP award
could have been given ittoali
people.”
The festivities started aboff
a.m., but several rowdy fan;
gan showing up six hours®
to stake out their spot
same route used for presidi
inaugurals.
Williams, the first blackf
terback ever to play in a
Bowl, was the darling of
crowd. Picked up by the Red
as a free agent in 198.6, Wil
relieved an ineffective Jay
roeder, and went on to thro*
a Super Bowl record '
and four touchdowns in the
son finale. B
“We want Doug! We»'
Doug!” thousands chanted#
parade ended its nine-block#
Williams, on crutches, washe|
up the steps by District of Cot
bia Mayor Marion Barryjr,
“I’m just glad to be part of
world champion Washing^
Redskins and part of the
city,” Williams said.
Reagan also cited Williams;
a job well done, saying his
against the Broncos was W
the most inspiring perfdnP
displayed by any quarterhaS
football history.”
The team traveled the pa#
route in Tourmobiles that
lowed marching bands, mo#
which played “Hail to
Redskins.”
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