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 Soviet U East Ge Finland Norway Sweden UNITEI West Ge Canada Britain Italy ... Switzerl Japan . Yugosla Czechosl France Liechten Medal Count G rnion ............. 3 rmany ........... 6 ................... 2 ~2 .......... 2 D STATES ....... 1 rmany..........1 . .......... . ..... . 1 and .... . . .......1 ........ ....... 0 via ..............0 lovakia .......... 0 ..0 istein ............ 0 T 16 15 8 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "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. t.avauters cut down Nets, 1l03-93j 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. 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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. t 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. l . , tu" ," SPORTS OF THE DAILY: THE \IVERSIT) CLUMBr Happy Hour's POPPIN' Monday - Friday 4-8 pm UION First Floor 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. 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