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It was destined from the beginning
Team USA had too much going against it for Olympic glorfl
Instead of having their names on
the back of their jerseys, members of
the United States Olympic hockey
team should have had “Doomed”
embroidered on them.
A fast, yet
careless of
fense, poor
defensive
skills, poor
organizatio
nal skills,
poor coach
ing and all-
around poor
play killed a
good team
with realistic
hopes of ad
vancing to
the medal
the pre-Olympic exhibition season,
playing mostly college teams. How
ever, interspersed with those college
tilts were battles with a few National
Hockey League teams, other Olym
pic teams and a series of games with
a Soviet team not up to par with the
true Soviet national team.
The team did all this in six
months, during which adjustments
were made, and players were both
added or cut. In fact, the final cut
for the team was not made until two
weeks before the Winter Games,
hardly enough time for the finished
product to come together.
rarely accommodated writers and
rarely gave honest answers.
“What kind of a system do you
play under?” one foreign correspon
dent asked Peterson. “There was ab
solutely no organization on the ice.”
Peterson curtly replied, “I’m not
going to answer that. It’s a stupid
question. Obviously we spent the
past six months doing nothing.”
Soviet Olympic team that is
rently marauding through Pools,
the Olympic hockey tourna®
The Canadians came out on
against the Soviets more times
not. including some very one-
wins.
Well, not exactly nothing, Dave.
But close.
Actually, the Americans
formed very well during thees
tion season. They just fell,
when the wins startedcountk
Loyd
Brumfield
round at Sports viewpoint
Alas, those hopes were dashed
when the tired U.S. team succumbed
4-1 to West Germany last Sunday.
During the exhibition season, the
United States defeated the West
Germans nine times.
The U.S. played 60 games during
Some fans and reporters were
grumbling before the Games began,
saying there was no way a team led
by Dave Peterson, a life-long high-
school coach, could advance very far
in the Games.
Apparently they were right.
Peterson was cut to pieces by re
porters and critics alike, being ac
cused of fostering a “Bobby Knight”
atmosphere among the team. He
Team USA played more than 60
games in the interim after tryouts
and before the Games, but the com
petition wasn’t exactly top-caliber.
The college teams on the schedule
were not the quality of say, the Uni
versities of Minnesota or Maine, and
the team didn’t play against many of
the quality NHL players around, ei
ther.
Token wins over patsies like
tria and Norway were guaram
even though the team
against both of them at some pi
but the tradition and winning
cies of Czechoslovakia and theSfl
Union were just too mudi,
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played a rough exhibition schedule,
including a series of games with the
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things right it still might noti
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Fly
ing Finn Matti Nykanen and Frank-
Peter Roetsch of East Germany be
came double gold medalists Tues- 1
day, and the Winter Olympics were a
Soviet bloc party again.
The beer from Bonnie Blair’s vic
tory bash hadn’t even gone flat be
fore America’s day of glory turned
into another day of gold for the East.
Only the volatile Matti Nukes, as
he is called, could slow down the So
viets.
Nykanen, who already won the
70-meter jump, added the 90-meter
title with a hill-record jump of 118.5
meters in the First round and be
came the Games’ first double jump
ing gold medalist since the event was
split in 1964.
“I knew I’d won after the first
jump,” said Nykanen, who won the
90-meter jump at Sarajevo four
years ago.
Roetsch won the 10-kilometer bi
athlon, staging the Games’ First indi
vidual sweep of biathlon events,
while Soviets Valeri Medvedtsev and
Sergei Tchepikov finished 2-3.
Roetsch won the 20-kilometer biath
lon Saturday.
“After the relay, we’ll drink much
more beer,” Roetsch said, looking
forward to the prospect of a third
gold medal. “Hopefully, we’ll have a
reason to celebrate.”
The Soviets now have a leading 20
medals, and East Germany has 15.
The two countries are tied with
seven gold and have won 35 of 84
medals offered so far.
Speed skater Karen Kania of East
Germany, a bronze medalist to
Blair’s gold in the 500 meters Mon-
Spurs draftee
must make
career choice
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San
Antonio Spurs center David Rob
inson will have to decide whether
to petition the new Navy secre
tary for an early release of his
two-year commitment, said club
chairman Angelo Drossos.
Robinson, the 7-foot-1 All-
America center who signed an
eight-year, $24 million contract
with the Spurs last November,
currently is attending classes at
the Navy’s Givil Engineering
Corps school in Port Hueneme,
Calif.
When released, he will return
to his permanent assignment at
Kings Bay, Ga., Naval Base.
Drossos said he was deluged
with telephone calls after Navy
Secretary James Webb resigned
Monday. Webb had ruled that
Robinson would not be allowed to
play in the NBA until the 1989-90
season because of a two-year com
mitment to the Navy.
“Eve had calls all day about Da
vid,” Drossos told the San Anto
nio Express-News. “It all depends
on David and who they name as
secretary. I have not had any con
versations with him, so I don’t
know what he plans to do.
“My First desire is for him to
play for San Antonio when he
can,” Drossos said. “My second
desire is for him to play in the
Olympics and do well, although
that will not tell how good of a
pro center he will be.”
Robinson, who could not be
reached for comment Monday,
has said repeatedly he wants to
fulFill his Navy commitment.
But Bob Bass, the Spurs vice
president in charge of basketball
operations, agreed with Drossos.
“That is his enlistment and his
commitment,” Bass said. “It will
all be up to David Robinson and
his people.”
day night, was entered in the 3,000.
One more medal and she will be
come the most successful speed
skater in Olympic history with seven
medals spanning three Games.
“I remember the First time I
skated behind her,” Blair said. “I
thought I was skating behind a male
skater.”
Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei
Bukin of the Soviet Union entered
Tuesday night’s ice dance freestyle
with a commanding lead in an event
that promised at least two more So
viet medals.
Meanwhile, America’s best hope
in the biathlon, Josh Thompson of
Gunnison, Colo., was a disappoint
ment again, unable to add to the
U.S. medal count that Blair pushed
to four when she won the 500-meter.
Thompson, who was 25th in the
20 kilometers, was 27th on Tuesday
after missing Five targets.
“I can’t remember two races I’ve
had so bad back-to-back,” Thomp
son said. “I don’t remember the last
time I’ve missed so many (targets),
and I don’t want to, either.”
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You can Find Katarina Witt and
the Soviet skaters. You just can’t
talk to them.
The American women Figure
skaters are around, too. But Debi
Thomas, Caryn Kadavy and Jill
Trenary aren’t talking either.
On the eve of the compulsories
in Olympic Figure skating, para
noia has struck. The people who
are in charge of the various skat
ing delegations are sheltering the
athletes and their coaches. The
gag rule is in effect.
“I’d love to talk to you but I
can’t right now,” Alex McGowan,
Thomas’ usually loquacious
coach, said Tuesday. “We’ve been
told not to.”
McGowan promised he would
be available later in the day, but a
U.S. team official frowned when
he said it.
Kadavy just shrugged when
asked a question and said, simply,
“Sorry.” Trenary smiled as she
left the practice arena but also de
clined to answer questions.
Thomas was nowhere to lx*
found after Finishing practice.
Not that she would have spoken,
either — she was the only mem
ber of the team who declined to
talk upon arriving at Calgary two
weeks ago.
What’s going on? When East
Germany’s Witt or the Soviets
have practices closed to outsiders,
it’s pretty much accepted. That’s
how they operate.
For the Americans to clam up
is unusual.
“Arrangements have been
made for'them to speak to lit
media only at specific time!,'
team leader Joan Gruberinsistei
When told that McGowanaml
Carlo Fassi, who train? both Hi
davy and Trenary, had agreed
sjxeak at the school figures put-
tice, Gruber said, "That’s
changed.”
Why the sudden unsvillic
to be interviewed, particulat
since the men. pairs and dana
competitors all talked
“I don’t know,” saidMcGo*:
who didn't look particulai
happy about it. “I’ll be glad total
to you later, when they said w
can.”
Witt talked to the media
once, at a heavily attended tien
conference where she was chant
ing and one person tried it
charm her with a marriage pi
posal. T homas also was coopt
alive at a news conferenceh(
for die three U.S. women.
“It’s getting to the time what
training gets really grueling,
Thomas said then, which miglit
explain, in part, the reluctance it
make the skaters available
Thomas won her second U.S|
crown in early January. The If
world champion is considered™
main challenger to three-tiffi
world winner Witt, the If
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
America may have just found itself a
new sweetheart: Bonnie Blair.
The speed skater boosted the U.S.
gold-medal count and spirits at the
Winter Olympics, racing away in the
500 meters in world-record time.
And just as America fell for a
pint-sized gymnast named Mary Lou
Retton four years ago, her agent is
hoping the nation is ready for an
other fling, this time with the
freckle-faced Blair.
Jim Fink, from Blair’s hometown
of Champaign, Ill., couldn’t put a
dollar value on Monday night’s per
formance — she won the race in
39.10 seconds, hopped atop the
medals podium and cried as she
sang the national anthem.
“She’s got everything that Mary
Lou Retton had,” he said at a news
conference Tuesday. “I hate myself
for making that reference but that’s
the nearest one we have.
“She was the small person who
went out and beat the big person,
the David-and-Goliath type of thing.
She is very personable and accessi
ble.”
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utes earlier by East
Christa Rothenburger who
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That’s pretty much what they said
about Retton, who won the women’s
all-around gymnastics gold medal at
the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
“Sure, it would be nice to get a
little something out of it, but it’s not
something I’m relying on or going to
base the rest of my life on,” Blair
said. “I want to go to school, get my
self a degree and get a job later in
life.”
“She sure made me
night,” Fink said with a
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large skating family. She h®
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hasn’t changed,” Blairsaid.
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The Texas A&M women’s tennis
team will open Southwest Confer
ence play today against its toughest
opponent of the season, 12th-
ranked Texas at 1 p.m. at the Omar
Smith Tennis Center.
Las Vegas against the University of
California-Irvine and the University
of Nevada-Las Vegas. The Lady Ag
gies lost to the University of the Pa
cific in a match last Friday.
Ann Grousbeck, the preseasor
player in the nation.
A&M Coach Bobby Kleined^
the team is ready for the maid 1
The Lady Aggies will take a 7-1
spring mark into the match, while
the Lady Longhorns bring in a 4-0
season mark, including wins over
SWC teams Rice, Arkansas and Bay
lor.
A&M’s Cindy Churchwell went
undefeated over the weekend, giv
ing her a 7-1 record for the year.
Cindy Crawford and Susan Williams
have 6-2 records, and the doubles
team of Churchwell and Derryn
Haygarth is 5-1.
“We’re really excited abo
match,” he said. “We've
looking forward to it fora
and even though were
vot ed in it, we’ve got a lot of
deuce going in to it
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