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CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Mark Gor-
ski, four-time national champion, and
Nelson Vails, a one-time bicycle
messenger boy in New York City, ad-
vanced yesterday to the first all-
American final in the history of Olym-
pic cycling.
Continuing the American dominance
of an Olympic sport Europeans owned
for most of this century, Gorski and
Vails will compete Friday for the
Olympic gold in the 1,000 meter sprint.
BOTH NEEDED just two heats to
clinch victory in their best-of-three-
heat semifinals.
Gorski disposed of Tsutomu
Sakamoto of Japan, running heats of
11.17 and 10.74 seconds and winning
comfortably each time.
Vails, however, had to go all out in the
first heat to defeat Philippe Vernet of
France, winning by half a wheel in
10.93. He won the second by an even
narrower margin, clocking 10.86, best
time of the semis.
IN YESTERDAY'S other com-
petition, the 4,000-meter team pursuit,
the U.S. squad barely survived the
quarterfinals.
It had the fifth-best time in the
preliminary round but won its quarter-
final by just a hundredth of a second
over Denmark, and it took the
Americans' three tries to cover the
distance.
In team pursuit, two four-man teams
start at opposite ends of the circuit, but
only three need finish. The team's time
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cover the distance.
IN THE four-man team's first ride,
one U.S. cyclist experienced
mechanical trouble. Since the heat was
not finished, a re-run was allowed, but
only three cyclists were permitted to
start - Steve Hegg, who won the gold in
the 4,000-meter individual pursuit,
Leonard Harvey Nitz, bronze-winner in
the individual and Brent Emery.
On the second try, two of the Americ-
ans fell on the backstretch of the ninth
lap. The mishap occurred when Hegg
looked back and his front wheel touched
Nitz' rear wheel. Emery, behind Hegg,
also fell.
Again a re-run was allowed, and the
U.S. team finally qualified, edging the
Danes in a time of 4 minutes, 29.92
seconds.
Another gold in Greco-Roman
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeff Blatnick
of Niskayuna, N.Y., who has waged a
successful fight against Hodgkin's
disease, won the gold medal in the
Olympic 220-plus 100-kilo plus Greco-
Roman wrestling competition last night
by beating Thomas Johansson of
Sweden 2-0.
Johansson won the silver, and the
bronze went to Refik Memisevic of
Yugoslavia when Romania's Victor
Dolipschi was disqualified for passivity
in their match.
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Patrick McDonough leads the U.S. cycling team onto the Olympic
velodrome track yesterday prior to the 4,000-meter team pursuit
competition. The American team defeated Denmark to qualify for today's
semifinals.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Cheryl Miller, scoring 16
points and contributing to a smothering defense, led the
United States to an 84-47 rout of previously unbeaten South
Korea yesterday, leaving the Americans as the lone un-
defeated team in the women's Olympic basketball tour-
nament.
Miller, the main weapon for Southern California's last two
national college champions, dazzled the Forum crowd with
another brilliant all-around performance. In addition to her
scoring, she helped an aggressive man-to-man defense stifle
the South Korean's fast break.
ALL 12 AMERICANS scored as Coach Pat Head Summitt
kept up her revolving-door substitution style. Four of them
reached double figures. Beside Miller, they were Janice
Lawrence with 13 and Lynette Woodward and substitute
Cathy Boswell 10 apiece.
The Americans, now 3-0, have been so dominant that their
smallest margin of victory has been 28 points, 83-55 against
Yugoslavia in their opener.
The Americans were up 40-20 at halftime and then put the
decision away with more defensive prowess in the second
half. The U.S. women held South Korea to three baskets in
the first nine minutes of the last half, for a 59-27 margin.
AEI-YOUNG Choi, a little guard with a deft touch from
long range, led South Korea with 10 points.
The U.S. women threw a full-court press against the South
Koreans early and slipped into a 12-2 lead in less than three
minutes.
Meanwhile, three players who have polished their skills at
American colleges, Christian Welp, Detlef Schrempf and
Uwe Blab, led West Germany to its first victory yesterday in
the Olympic men's basketball tournament.
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Boxing
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Meldrick Taylor, showing
poise beyond his 17 years, kept the U.S. Olympic
boxing record unblemished yesterday with a solid
decision victory over Nicloae Talpos of Romania.
The 125-pound boxer from Philadelphia became the
eighth American to fight and win here. The U.S.
team's record is 9-0, with 147-pounder Mark Breland
winning twice.
Robert Shannon of Edmonds, Wash., who, like
Taylor drew a first-round bye, was scheduled to fight
last night against Sammy Mwangi of Kenya in the
119-pound class.
Taylor's next opponent Sunday night will be Fran-
cisco Camacho of Mexico, who knocked down Jea Luc
Bezoky of Madagascar twice and stopped him in the
third round.
Men's Rapid Fire Pistol
CHINO, Calif. (AP) - Takeo Kamachi of Japan
won his country's first gold medal of the 1984 Olym-
pics by taking the men's rapid fire pistol competition
yesterday.
Romania's Corneliu Ion won the silver medal.
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Brazil's Delival Nobre and Finland's Rauno Bies
tied for third and were to shoot off later for the bronze
medal.
Field Hockey
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) - The United
States fell out of contention for a medal in men's field
hockey yesterday with a 4-1 loss to Malaysia.
Earlier, India beat Spain 4-3 in a rematch of the
1980 Olympic final.
The Malaysians took advantage of U.S. defensive
lapses and penalties to takea 2-1 lead in the first half.
Kevin Nunis Tam scored both of Malaysia's first-half
goals.
The U.S. Goal was scored by forward Brian Spen-
cer.
The Americans have lost all three of their games.
Malaysia is 1-2.
Women's Small-bore rifle
CHINO, Calif. (AP) - Wu Xiaoxuan of China won
the gold medal yesterday in women's small-bore
rifle, her second medal of the Games. A West
German edged an American for the silver.
Wu won the bronze medal in the women's air rifle
competition earlier.
The silver went to Ulkrie Holmer of West Germany,
the bronze to Wanda Jewell of Wahiawa, Hawaii.
Wu scored 581 to 578 for both Holmer and Jewell.
The silver was awarded to Holmer for hitting two
more bull's-eyes than Jewell.
Rowing
LAKE CASITAS, Calif. (AP) - The French eight,
apparently relegated to the sidelines by a last-place
finish in yesterday's repechage, was allowed to ad-
vance into Sunday's medal final after the Inter-
national Rowing Federation determined that the boat
had been sabotaged.
After an impromptu meeting on the shore of Lake
Casitas, federaton president Thomas Keller said the
broken oarlock pin resulted from "willfull damage."
Keller, a chemical engineer, said the damaged area
was slightly oxydized, indicating it had been cut more
than a week earlier.
Aiistralia, Canada, Great Britain and Chile
qualified through the repechage, after the United,
States and New Zealand had won the qualifying-
heats.
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