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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Sunday, July 27,2003 CONTINENTAL Cup Ski JUMPING Earlier crash doesn’t prevent Pole from outdistancingfield it winds blowing: Inconsistent gusts onthe hills wound up dooming the chances ofAmerican Clint Jones, who had finished in second place a dayearlier By Janet Raz Brooxs The Sait Lake Tribune PARK CITY — After suffering a crash just 24 hours earlier, Marcin Bachleda returned to Utah Olympic Park on Saturday evening to capture his second Continental Cup ski jumping victory in a week. The 20-year-old Pole edged Slovenian Bine Norcio by 0.7 points to win the second contest of a two-day event. Bachleda fol lowed his first jump of 128.5 : meters with another of 134.5, the longestof the evening, for a score of 259.9 points. A sold-out crowd of 1,000 was on hand for the rare sunset event. Lake Tribune Tommy Schwail, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., took fifth place in the Saturday competition, with 249.3 points earned in two jumps. afterhis victory. Another Slovenian, Bine Zupan, finished third, with defending champion Clint Jones slipping from second to fourth after the second jump. Jones won both events at last year’s Park City Continental Cup event, and was hoping to defend his titles. The Steamboat Springs, Colo., native, who now trains in ParkCity, finished second on Friday. But on a evening of inconsis- tent winds, Jones had the misfortune to hit an unfavorable Jones hadn't finished out of the top three in three previous Continental Cup events this summer, and thought he was on track in Saturday’sfinal jump. “Coming over the knell of the hill, | thoughtI was going to jump pretty far,” he said. Then he felt as if he was dropping from the “It's just how jumping is sometimes,” he said, off the conditions. “It definitely wasn'tall the wind.” Tommy Schwall, another Steamboat Springs jumper, took fifth. Slovenians tookfive of the top 10 places. allowing the jumperto fly fur- ther. He will have a new, tighter-fitting suit for the winter Season. Cominertal Cup meters, 258.9 poms second Continental Cup Mast of his career, hails from the southern Poland winter resort of down at 126.5m — tying for the on Friday — Bachieda fell on his landing and injured said the race announcer after Jones’ flew 126 meters on his TL used to ski. Bachleda finished 43rd overall in last winter’s his left shoulder. That left him a little nervous atthe start of Saturday’s competition. second jump. “He seemed to drop out of the air. The wind is playing havoc with the jumpers.” World Cup, with a top placing of Zakopane, where Pope John Paul He collected $400 for the win. illegal suit. Gerhart was using last year’s suit, but the method of measuring i has changed. The baggier the suit, the more resistance it provides, Rests 1, Marcin Bachieda, Poland 1285 meters 1945 Bachleda, whose win was the lith, Nathan Gerhart, also of Steamboat Springs, was disqual ified after the first round for an ‘Sto Jumping At Utah Otymptc Park, Part City patehof air. “The air seemed to go stale,” A dayearlier, after touching Junzser Hasmon/TheSalt “I was afraid of the first jump because everybody was jumping far, and yesterdayI had a crash,” be said, through a translator, still favoring his left shoulder 2 Bine Norco, Stovenia 127'5, 129, 258.2 3. ine Zupan, Sioverna 1275, 133, 257.4 4. Cint Jones, Steamboat Springs, Colo, 129, 128, c— 5. Tommy Schall, Srambost Springs, Cola, 122, 129, 2083 6. Igor Medved, Siovaia 131, 122, 246.9 7. Primaz Pid, Slovenia 133.5, 119, 2415 8. Jue Radel, Siovenia 1215, 128, 240 9. Bran Weich,1195, 1285, 236.9 10. Hroki Yamada, Japan 1285,119, 2045 Auto RacInG Rudd’s 700th his to keep Comsinep News Services LONG POND, Pa. — Ricky Rudd polishes his stature as stock car racing’s ironman with his 700th consecutive NASCAR Winston Cup start in today’s Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. Jeff Gordon, who has 348 consecutive starts, would reach 700 in the llth race of 2013. It’s a record Gordon says Rudd can have. “I think it’s amazing,” Gordon said of Rudd’s record. “I think it says a lot about Ricky and his determination and how muchheloves the sport and how hard he’s worked atit. | have no desire to [reach] 700 races. I have no idea whatI'll be doingin 2011, but I knowit’s notthat. If that’s the'case, I knowI've done something wrong along the way.” Ryan Newman will start on the pole. Vancouver Molson Indy Paul Tracy answered his critics the best way he could, winning the pole for today’s Vancouver (British Columbia) Molson Indy ‘The ChampCar points leader lost the provisional pole — and the championship point that goes with it — to Bruno Junqueira on Friday when CART penalized Tracy for blocking other drivers late in the qualifyingsession. ‘Tracy answered after watching 2001 Vancouver winner Roberto Morenopost a fast lap of 1 minute, 1.172 seconds, 104.813 mph to take over the top spot with 26 minutes remaining in the 40-minutesession. Busch 250 Scott Wimmer won the NASCAR Busch 250 at Pikes Peak International Racewayin a race at Fountain, Colo., that saw a track record 15 lead changes. 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