Page 14 - The Midigon'Daily- FridayAugust 3,1984 American cyclists excel q 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 Wome WOhoopsters trounce KS. orea is determined by the first cyclist to 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. I I I 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. 40 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. 0 oh 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. mpic Roun 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. 0 0 0