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OLYMPIC UPDATE

The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 15, 1984 - Page 9

U.S. hopefuls upset in slalom

1 SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - The United States Figure skating
had struck gold, then, suddenly, the vein was played

out.
ON MONDAY, Debbie Armstrong was 24-karat,
leading a one-two U.S. finish in the women's giant
slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
But yesterday. the luck of America paled when
three-time World Cup champion Phil Mahre finished
eighth in the men's giant slalom, won by Max Julen of
Switzerland, in a time of 2:41.18.
"I wanted to win medals here," Mahre, 26, of
Yakima, Wash., said. "I came in really relaxed and
confident. I thought I was going to ski very well here.
It just didn't pan out that way."
SECOND TO Julen, at 2:41.41, was Jure Franko of
Ygoslavia - the first Winter Olympic medalist this
host country has ever had.
Mahre, the three-time World Cup overall champion
and silver medalist in the slalom at the 1980 Winter
Games, finished with a combined time in the two
giant slalom runs of 2:43.25 seconds.
"THIS WHOLE season has basically gone this way
for me," said Mahre. "My timing is not right. I'm in a
rut and I can't get out of it. It's hard to understand
why."
Phil's brother Steve finished 17th at 2:46.03.
"That first run today,.I skied one of the best runs
I've had all year, and then I fell," Steve said. He
recovered but the slip cost him time. "From then on,
it just went downhill for the day. I tried too hard on
the second run and didn't let my skis run."
Phil Mahre was critical of the gate-setting and
preparation of the course.
"THERE WERE a ridiculous number of gates on
that hill," said Mahre, referring to the 56 gates in the
first run and 55 in the second. "And they watered the
course, The Austrians and the Swiss like hard snow-
the Yugoslavs, too - that's why they watered it. It
should not happen.'
The giant slalom was marked by the absence of two
of the event's strongest competitors, Sweden's
Ingemar Stenmark and Luxembourg's Marc Girar-
delli. Stenmark has been barred from competing
because he accepted endorsement money directly,
and Girardelli, an Austrian, doesn't have citizenship
in Luxembourg.
"It is difficult to say if they would have beaten me
.today," said Julen, "because the slope was just right
for me. It was extremely difficult and icy, just the
way I like it."
The giant slalom was held over a Mount Bjelasnica
course of roughly 1,222 yards with a vertical drop of
roughly 417 yards over the course.
Julen has won just one World Cup race in his three
seasons on the circuit, but he has been highly com-
petitive. Last year he finished second five times.,

Scott Hamilton, the top U.S. men's figure skater,
added a second place in short forms yesterday to his
earlier top scores, putting him in prime contention
for a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Canadian Brian Orser bested him by a narrow
margin in the short forms, but Hamilton still held on-
to first place overall.
AFTER the short program, which accounts for 20
percent of the final marks in the medal competition,
Hamilton led Jean-Christophe Simond of France,
followed by West German Rudi Cerne.
Hamilton finished second in the short program af-
ter leading in the compulsory round. Orser moved in-
to fifth place overall after his short program.
Brian Boitano, 19, of Sunnyvale, Calif., finished
third in the short program and moved into sixth place
overall. The other U.S. entry, Mark Cockerell of Los
Angeles, was 17th overall.
HAMILTON, 25, skated cautiously in completing
the short program's required jumps, but was off on a

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"I got on the ice and all of a sudden - bam, Olym-
pics, short program, do or die and people yelling my
name. So I started to get excited," he said.
"So it was calm down. Let's remember what we're
out here for and skate a clean short program.
ASKED IF he can be beaten for the gold,
Hamilton's coach, Don Laws, said confidently, "No,
they won't touch him."
"He'd have to be fifth in freeskating and he's never
been below first" in 15 straight championships, Laws
said.
Orser, who was fifth overall after finishing seventh
in figures, skated with flair and impressed the judges
with his presentation.
DRESSED in tigerstripes and skating to a medley
from the musical "Cats," he opened strongly with a
difficult triple lutz-double loop combination jump and
skated the other requirements for a strong finish.
Except for one 5.7 in both required elements and
presentation from the Yugoslav judge, Orser
received all 5.8's of a possible 6.0.
Cerne, dressed in a white and black tuxedo outfit,
also landed a double-triple combination jump and
twirled quickly on his spins.
The 23 men will skate for medals Thursday night.
Women begin their three-part competition, this
morning with compulsory figures. Medals com-
petition is on Saturday.
Ice dancing
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won
the gold medal in ice dancing yesterday, collecting 12
perfect scores of 6.0 out of 18 marks. Soviets Natalia
Bestemyanova and Andrei Boukin won the silver
medal.
On paper, Americans Judy Blumberg and Michael
Seibert were tied for the bronze medal after the com-
petition ended.
BUT THEY didn't win it. The third-place medal
went to Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko,
because there are no ties in figure skating.
The tie was broken on the basis of who got higher
scores in the final event, free skating.
Blumberg and Seibert finished fourth in the free
dance and the Soviet pair was third in that portion.
SEIBERT said they made two minor step errors at
the start and finish of their four-minute routine, but
that it shouldn't have affected the scoring.
"It's hard because we're in a judgement sport. We
knew it when we-came into this. We lost. It just
seems to hurt a little more when it's your only chance
for an Olympic medal," Seibert said.
The U.S. dance duo of Carol Fox and Richard
Dalley finished fifth, while Eliza Spitz and Scott
Gregory, who train with them at Wilmington, Del.,
finished 10th.

AP Photo
Richard Dailey of Detroit, in tandem with his partner, Carol Fox, displayed
grace and poise in the Olympic ice dancing competition. The American
couple skated to an impressive fifth place finish last night in Sarajevo's
Zetra Arena.

camel spin and didn't have his usual spark.
His marks ranged from 5.7 to 5.9 from the nine
judges. The U.S. judge gave him 5.9 of a possible 6.0
in both required elements and presentation.
"The camel wasn't what I quite wanted it to be,"
said the three-time world champion, who came close
to banging into the corner wails on one trip around
the rink.
"EVERY NOW and then I'll lose the short. It's
kind of a test of nerves.

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cut down
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RICHFIELD, Ohio (AP) - World B.
Free, returning from a back injury that
kept him out of three games, scored 18
points in the second quarter last night
as the Cleveland Cavaliers built a 27-
point halftime lead on the way to a 103-
93 National Basketball Association vic-
tory over the New Jersey Nets.
Four players, Phil Hubbard and Lon-
nie Shelton of Clevelandl and New Jer-'
sey's Michael Ray Richardson and
Buck Williams, were ejected in the
game, which saw the Cavaliers break a
16-game losing streak against the Nets.
Free, who finished with 30 points,
came off the bench in the second quar-
ter as Cleveland moved from a 30-18 fir-
-stquarter iead'to aW634dvantage at
the half - the Cavaliers' biggest half-
time lead of the season.

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Leonard advised to
refrain from boxing',

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BOSTON (AP) - The doctor who
operated on Sugar Ray Leonard's right
eye said yesterday it will be two weeks
before the boxer can start training
again for his postponed comeback mat-
ch. But Dr. Edward Ryan also said he
doesn't think Leonard should fight at
all.
"I wouldn't recommend that he fight,
but if the eye heals up properly I could
not prevent him from fighting," said
Ryan, a retinal specialist at the
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
RYAN OPERATED on the former-
welter weight champion Monday, after
a checkup showed the retina in his right
eye was becoming loose.
"Sugar Ray tolerated the procedure
very well," said Ryan, who had never
examined the boxer before. "His eye
will be a little sore."
Ryan said Leonard's left eye,
operated on in 1982, is fine but noted
that without the surgery in his right
eye, the boxer could not have fought
safely against Kevin Howard Feb. 25.
"THERE COULD have been further
damage," Ryan said. "We decided
right away that he should not fight."
The fighter was resting in the

Washington area. Efforts to reach him
and his attorney Mike Trainer were un-
successful.
The 27-year-old fighter had surgery
on his left eye on May 9, 1982, to repair a
partly detached retina and retired from
boxing the following Nov. 9. He had a
32-1 record and was undisputed welter-
weight champion at the time.
LAST DEC. 10 Leonard announced
his comeback against Howard at Wor-
cester Centrum.
"If his eye is bad and he can't fight,
then God bless him," Howard said
Monday night. "I have to step on. If we
don't fight, give me another opponent.
Ryan said the routine procedure in-
volved freezing part of the eye to form
scar tissue that would make the retina
adhere better. The surgery, performed
under local anesthesia, took five or six
minutes.
THE DOCTOR said he expected
Leonard's eye to heal well, but added
that Leonard would have to be
examined before every fight to ward off
trouble.
"Fighters should be screened for this
prior to boxing," Ryan said.

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AP Photo
Swiss skier, Max Julen, grabbed the gold in yesterday's action in Sarajevo.
Julen is shown cutting through the snow on his way down Mt. Bjelasnica.

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Montreal harpoons Whalers again, 5-3

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Mario
Tremblay and John Chabot each scored
two goals last night to give the Montreal
Vanadiens a 5-3 victory over the Har-
tford Whalers.
The Canadiens, now 6-0-1 against
Hartford this season, spotted the
Whalers a 3-0 lead. Mark Johnson
scored his 29th and 30th goals of the
season to get the Whalers off to a 2-0
advantage and Bobby Crawford made
it 3-0 with a power-play goal 10:13 into
the game.
BUT MONTREAL ended Hartford's
home string of 15 unanswered goals
when Tremblay scored his first of the

night, beating Hartford goalie Greg
Millen with a quick wrist shot from the
right faceoff circle as the first period
drew to a close.
The Canadiens controlled the flow of
play in the second period as Guy
Lafleur hit from 50 feet with a slap shot
at 2:20. Then, Chabot put in Trem-
bla's rebound at 11:42 for a 3-3 tie after
two.
Tremblay snapped the tie on a feed
from Mats Naslund, firing in a wrist
shot from the top of the left circle and
beating Millen at 17:17. Chabot added
an insurancegoal with an empty net
with 38 seconds left..

The win boosted the Canadiens' lead
to 15 points over the Whalers for the
fourth and final playoff spot in the
Adams Division.
Derils 6, Kings 4
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -
Rick Meagher and Gary MacAdam
scored 28 seconds apart in the opening
period last night and the New Jersey
Devils went on to defeat the Los
Angeles Kings 6-4 in a National Hockey
League game.
The victory snapped a six-game
home losing streak, the longest in New
Jersey's two-year history.

' MEAGHER OPENED the scoring at
12:09 with a 20-foot shot from the right
faceoff circle and MacAdam made it 2-0
at 12:37 when he cut across in front of
the Los Angeles net, fell over goalten-
der Markus Mattsson's stick and shot
the puck into the open net. Charlie
Simmer scored for the Kings on a 15-
foot rebound at 13:27.

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