expectin more; I think Bri
ezpectin ore. UWe came in with
the ttitude ted a chance to
win, e did have chance to
win. I think t' the ey ere,
ing you ve th chance. "
Team leader J me Hickey,
member of the U.S. four-man teams
in 1 d '72, dmitted that e
co ching might have expected
too much out 0 Walker in hi Olym­
pic debut. But he immediately tab­
H hed high expect tio for the
four-man competition, in which
Walker will erve brakeman for
Randy Will' USA I led.
Not to worry, the Minne ota
Viking running back promised.
There' alway next wee end and
the four-man competition. Walker
and Brian Shimer, the driver of USA
I, moved up 0 pots to finish
eventh, .(/) second behind the gold
medal "duo of Gustav Weder and
Donat Acklin of Switzerland.
"It' disappointing, but like I uWekindofthoughthewouldbe
aid, we're not go� to give up," the hero we were looking for," Hick­
Walker id fter he and Shimer ey said. "Th U.S. hasn't won a
posted the best U.S. two-man finish medal ince 1956, and I tmnk we still
since a fifth.place in 1980. have one coming in the four-man."
"Brian and I, for the time that Walker concurred. "There' no
we've done things, we've gotten bet- doubtl think I can win. If I didn't, I'd
terandbetter. There's no doubtl was be going home."
Herschel Walker, NFL ster, ballet and bobsleding.
Even fter pi cing ninth in
S turday' 0 , er ought
he nd Shim r could climb into
medal po ition. But the 36-year U.S.
Olympic bob led med drought
continued.
Wal r' anticip ted expl ion t
the t rt never came. He had
predicted tim in the five-second
range for the 50-meter tart, but the
led' two tim Sunday ere 6.11
and 6,(17 seconds, nowhere near the
times of 5.99 and 5.98 regi tered by
ilver medal Rudolf Lochner and
Markus Zimmerman of Germany.
Even that n't enough for Loch­
ner, who ended up .29 behind Weder,
the nauowest margin in an Olympic
two-man ince 1968.
Weder, in fifth on S turday, had
a combined time of 4 minutes, 3.26
econds for four runs down the near­
ly mile-long, 19-tum track.
The second German sled of
Chri toph Langen and Gunther Eger
took the bronze. Langen and Eger
napped 0 consecutive 6.025 Sun­
day, giving the German teams the
be t overall tart times in the com­
petition.
"They've been together for I
don't know how long," Walker said
of the Germans. "You expect that
The thing is, experience does playa
part."
And it' ezperienccthatWalkeris
lacking. The Olympics were only his
econd international competition
and his first this season. Shimer and
Walker were hurt by a 6.14 start time
in their fimt run on Saturday.
Shimer said he thought Walker
might have been worried about get­
ting into the sled too early, before the
first turn. "I told him to run the sled
down as far as you can and step on
the back of the sled," Shimer said.
"On the films he would leave the ice
onto his butt into the led and I think
that took too much energy away
from the acceleration of the sled, and
(the adjustment) seemed to work out
today."
Shimer said that if he had any­
thing different to do over, "I wish I .
did have a race (with Walker) to
compete in before the Games, but it ..... -------------------------------...:.-- ......
didn't happen."
The last ·World Olp race was in
early December, when Walker was
The U. S. driver, Brian Shimer, front, and brakeman Herschel Walker at start of bobsled
course at La Plagne, France ..
still busy with football. Walker
made no commitments about being
back in the two-man for the 1994
Olympics. But Shimer said returning
in '94 "probably will ease this dis­
appointment a little.
In two years I get another shot at
it. I think we can pick up right where
we left off."
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