— i 1 d ' -- SPORTS I Tribune The Salt lake Sunday June 20 2004 abriside falls short ofAthens Clympic cycling team: Salt Laker just misses out on Olympics finishing second in selection race STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Calif — Salt Lake City's David Zabriskie almost completed a remarkable comeback from injuries to make the US Olympic cycling team but fell short Saturday Jason McCartney won the men's national cycling road race championship worth a trip to Athens fort 2004 Olympics overcame McCartney REDLANDS - ) - I N 1 I 1 C7 l "4 - these trials USA Cycling will also send seven track cyclists and three mountain bikers to Athens A pack of about a dozen men's riders seemed poised to make a final attack in the last lap but they never closed the gap McCartney had built by just breaking out on his own "When I cramped I had to completely stop so I thought my race was over" McCartney said "I kind of rubbed it a little bit then I came back on to them a little bit on the climb and didn't quite catch them that time Then I ended up going out front again and thought they'd catch me but they didn't come back" struck by a vehicle in Mill Creek Canyon He resumed training with the US Postal Service team in January and returned to the international circuit in February with hopes of competing in Tour de France and other major races this year Riding in the Olympics was also a strong possibility but Zabriskie could not quite catch McCartney McCartney completes a men's Olympic road team that includes five-tim-e defending Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong Tyler Hamilton George I lincapie and Bobby Julich Each prequalified rider is prepping for the Tour and skipped OLYMPIC QUALIFYING mechanical problems early in e the men's selection race and leg cramps in its latter stages winning by 61 seconds over Zabriskie finishing in 5 hours 9 minutes 57 seconds In the women's race Kristin Armstrong edged time trial national Christine champion Thorburn by about hall' a bike length finishing the course in 3 hours 26 minutes 12 seconds A little more than a year ago Zabriskie sustained injuries to his leg and wrist that required surgery after his bicycle was 118-mil- M 1 c: ' 4k— 0 0 0 - tk l ''''' - -- 1:44zio 4 --- ' ' 0 0 ' ' — ' A s k f k N - (' 4'‘4' if t 4 1 - i ' - 1 -– S4 '4C i 44 - ' -- - 4 - P I iI - I 1 ill SI AN LI m Illte Awriaird Pme David Zabriskie seen here riding during time trials Thursday finished second in Olympic qualifying Saturday : OLYMPIC NOTES TRACK AND FIELD Tab for Athens Games keeps on escalating ' ' 't '"- - ) t lf94' BY JANET RAE BROOKS Me SO hike Tribune I ' ' The cost of the Athens Olympics has increased to $72 billion 30 percent higher than budgeted Greece's economy minister said Thursday The government has raised cost estimates twice in the past two months Construction delays burgeoning security requirements and costly transportation projects have contributed to the soaring price tag Greece is the smallest country in half a century to stage the Olympics but is mounting the most heavily Games since the 1980 Moscow Olympics : - i 4 1 i I c i ' oil i 6--- yl t ' 4t 1 - 'cl ---' Litt: 1 1C-- telAlt 1' 1 161 ( f p -- 4 ' 11 - Yolanda Griffith was named Saturday as the ): i )'' ' 12th and final woman on the US women's basketball team that will compete at the Athens Olympics ''''''''''''''' I i 1 'it('44Sv A A TN - i in August Griffith was the top rebounder on the Olympic champion 2000 team The other 11 team members include: Sue Bird Swin Cash Tamika Catchings Shannon Johnson Lisa Leslie Del P''''""N'N NA '11 1?" Katie Smith Dawn Staley isha Milton-Jone- s Sheryl Swoopes Diana Taurasi and Tina - 1 ' Suit filed I 0 national taekwondo champion Charles Smith filed a $10 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the US Olympic Committee on Thursday for preventing him from competing at the Athens Olympics Smith charged that the USOC had disTwo-tim- e i I i 1 e i e - RICK Marion Jones flies toward a win in the long jump Saturday She finished fifth in the 100 meters in the wake of a battle with the US Montgomery rails against drug charges Jones ets I k P'' e agairt Doing a Stew ) 1 Anti-Dopin- g Rob Derksen manager of Greece's Olympic baseball team died of a heart attack on Wednesday Derksen who was 44 died in New York while on Olympic-relate- d business Derksen who was also a Baltimore scout was asked by Orioles owner Peter Angelos to assemble a team of players of Greek descent As host nation Greece received an automatic bye into the Olympic baseball tournament b I Boil BAUM The Awriated Nem tt° EUGENE Ore — Perhaps the fight against the US Agency is wearing down Marion Jones Fifth-plac- e finishes just aren't her style Jones finished fifth behind winner Inger Miller in the women's 100 meters at the Prefontaine Classic track and field meet Saturday but consoled herself with a win in the long jump "It kind of balanced out the day" she said mark in the meet's final Jones' long-jumevent was 22 feet 9 inches — 812 inches farther than her previous best this season The effort though was anything but encouraging for her fmal race before the US Olympic trials which begin July 9 in Sacramento She is resigned to the fact that the US Agency investigation of her will not be resolved by then either "To be truthful I see it go through the trials and probably right up to the games" Jones said "I would love for it to have been yesterday and for it to be done tomorrow But it just seems this organization is just dragging its feet and I'm to the point where I've done everything I could" Maurice Greene was second to Shawn Crawford in the men's 100 and Allen Johnson was edged by Larry Wade in the 110 hurdles Crawford stunned Greene with a clocking Greene the reigning Olympic gold medalist was second at 993 and John Capel third at 995 — the three fastest times in the world this 100s in the meet's year and the first history Jones' embattled boyfriend Tim Montgomfield at 1017 ery was sixth in the eight-maseconds Miller came on at the fmish to nip e Gail Devers the Olympic champion in the event who was running her first 100 of the season Both were timed in 1105 seconds "I was just coming to this meet running this race to see if I had any speed" said Devers a three-tim- e world champion in the t hurdles "I didn't know I had any speed so I'm ( '‘:14 otill‘- - 14 I s i' 4( t i - 14 4 t i ' — - - eiwd 1A4 116 ti : t :i d :7''' '‘ d- - ' ) 4 r" - li:K ''' ' A 4 Anti-Dopin- g 100-met- L) '9 - ' f Art1 4te 1 CLAZI! ) ' 4 4441011"t t4441 tt‘ k 100-met- two-tim- ) i ! :1'''P p n Swim star Ian Thorpe is responsible for a new addition to Australian slang: "Doing a Stevo" which means doing a favor After Thorpe missed qualifying for the freestyle at the Australian swim trials in March — he fell off the starting blocks — second-plac- e finisher Craig Stevens came under public pressure to cede his Olympic berth to his teammate Thorpe the defending Olympic champion holder hadn't lost at the distance and world-recorfor seven years Stevens whose best time in the 400 is eight seconds slower than Thorpe's world record decided after a month to give Thorpe his spot which he announced before a live television audience of 18 million to 400-met- '' 1 Anti-Dopin- g 988-secon- d criminated against him by banning him from the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and favoring white athletes The suit claimed he failed to make the US Olympic team because he was denied access to Olympic training facilities and coaches Derksen dies i Back on track: US sprint queen finishes fifth in 100 takes longjump title at Prefontaine Classic ROB GLOSTER lhe Avoided Prem Agency Anti-Dopi- ' 1 I3Y Prem BowmhalllwAssonotai 1 BY Tim Montgomery the world's fastest man told the US Agency he's done nothing wrong and ridiculed possible drug evidence against him –the truth will prevail" he said Montgomery also identified banished sprinter Kelli White as the one who is providing information against him "It's not on paper It's all someone saying something" Montgomery said Who? he was asked "Kelli White" Montgomery responded "She don't live with me so I don't know how she would know" White the world champion in the women's 100 and 200 last year has relinquished those medals and accepted a two-yesuspension for using steroids and other banned substances Montgomery's lawyer said the sprinter will continue to fight for the chance "to fulfill his dreams and participate in the 2004 Olympics" Montgomery record holder in the 100 meters is one of four US athletes formally notified on June 7 that the USADA is pursuing possible drug charges against them finish in the 100 at After his sixth-placClassic in Eugene Prefontaine Saturday's Ore Montgomery accused the USWA of "making up rules" Montgomery and the other three — Chryste Gaines Michelle Collins and Alvin I Iarrison had until Friday to respond to the USM)A's formal notice Now a USADA review panel will decide— perhaps by early this whether to recommend coming week bringing drug charges against them If they are found guilty of doping they would face minimum bans of two years three-tim- e girlfriend Montgomery's also is unJones Marion Olympic champion der investigation by the USWA but has not received a formal letter that the agency is her puirsuing a case d Griffith natned (:?1 i ?' state-funde- ' ' A t :"": 1 ' 3 i t : I ' 4 t 4 44 - iw ilw - r: DON She holds American records in the 5K 10K : -- - and 41 the crowd after running the fastest time by an American in the mile in seven years Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic Alan Webb acknowledges happy" Cluyste Gaines one of those notified by the g agency that they could be banned from the Athens Olympics was third in 1106 Latashya Colander was fourth at 1110 with Jones fifth at 1112 Stacy Dragila the 2000 Olympic gold medalist won the pole vault at and narrowly missed three times at a world record 16 feet On the last two attempts she cleared the bar only to clip it with her wrist on the way down Alan Webb the running on the same track where he broke Jim Ryun's high school mile record four years ago ran the fastest mile by an American in the United States at 3:5085 It's the fastest by a US runner anywhere in the event in seven years r 2 15K the marathon RvAN111tAtworiatai Pma anti-dopin- Deena Kastor who will compete in the marathon at the Athens Olympics won the US women's championship Saturday in Duluth Minn Kastor finished in 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds half-marath- t ! — Kastor wins :: I Jackson on display WNBA Most Valuable Player Lauren Jackson posed nude in an Australian magazine featuring athletes competing at the Athens Olympics "I did it because it is such a prestigious magazine in Australia" said the Seattle Storm forward "I am really proud to be part of it" The magazine Black White includes shots of 35 male and female athletes "We work so hard as athletes on making our bodies look great and to be in the best possible shape that we can be" Jackson added "I am proud of my body at this stage and I know in 20 years it's not going to be the same" Jackson is the first foreign player and the youngest to be voted league MVP EBU gets rights The European Broadcast Union has been awarded European broadcast rights to the 201 0 and 2012 Olympics The EBU buys the rights on behalf of 55 state- owned television networks It has provided European coverage of the Olympics since the 1950s Intbrmation for this report came from wire services sports federations and personal interviews P