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Show i Wednesday, February 22, 1978 Surprises Fill Volvo Cup The $40,000 Volvo Cup held February 11 and 12 at Mt. Cranmore in Mt. Washington Valley was two sunny days filled with dozens of surprises sur-prises and several new faces on the World Pro Skiing victory vic-tory stand. Swiss, Manfred Jakober, 29, scored his first victory of the season by defeating Canadian, Jim Hunter, 24. in the giant slalom finals. And French-Canadian, Alain Cousineau, 24, tallied his first career victory by skiing past newcomer, Walter Tresch, 29, in the slalom finale. Jakober was the man who put the stop to the Josef Odermatt racing machine. Jakober had a .279 second advantage over the number one ranking pro in the world. The rematch saw Odermatt win by .226, just .053 seconds slower than the time he needed to advance to the semi-finals. Meanwhile, number two ranking pro, Andre Arnold of Austria, skied his way into third place, defeating his Fritzmeier-Raichle-Tyrolia team captain, Ed Reich, in the consolation round. That moved Arnold '20 points behind Odermatt in the overall standings prior to Sunday's slalom. The slalom was to surprise not only Odermatt and Ar- Hockey Team Rolling The Park City and Snowbird hockey teams got together last Thursday for a two-hour, no-check scrimmage. scrim-mage. The scoring was evenly divided between the two squads and a regulation game will be played in about two weeks with referees and linesmen. The team also has scheduled a game with Jackson Hole which probably will be played this Saturday 'night.' For more details contact Vic Buck 649-9593 649-9593 or John Peck, 649-7563. The local hockey players are trying to form the nucleus of a good "B" team to compete in league play next fall on the Salt Lake circuit and to play challenge matches against other ski resort hockey teams. GET MOORE FOR YOUR MONEY Play with Ray Moore March 6, 7 or 8 at the PARK CITY RACQUET CLUB For Moore Information, call 649-8080 " TIT II I II II li.M.AJLU-. 1x1 health studio 1505 empire 649-7232 nold, but all of the top five pros. Number three, Hunter and number five, Tyler Palmer (skiing at his home area for the first time in 10 years) were eliminated in the opening round of 32. Odermatt, Arnold and Reich ended their day in the next round, leaving the rest of the competition totally up for grabs. It seemed as though French rookie, Bernard Front, had grabbed on with the tightest grip when he skied superbly into the semi-finals to meet newcomer, Tresch. Tresch, an Olympic silver medalist who turned pro only two weeks ago, defeated Front in the first run by .445. Front was leading the next run when Tresch went out of the course midway down the 39-gate slalom. But Tresch World Cup Dates Rearranged While the dates and world class field remain the same, the order of events for the U.S. World Cup ski races at Stratton Mt., Vermont and Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, have been rearranged. The changes were made to allow the athletes an earlier return to Europe to pick up a men's downhill cancelled in January due to bad weather. Stratton is slated to host men's and women's Slalom and Giant Slalom events from March 2 through March Mar-ch 5. The new order of events at the Vermont resort will be: Thursday, March 2 Women's Giant Slalom; Friday, March 3 Men's Giant Slalom; Saturday, Baby Beats Seventeen year old Baby Blue racer Betsy Haines led the junior women's field in the 5 kilometer event at-Mikkili, at-Mikkili, Finland, February 11 and 12. The Anchorage, Alaska high school senior duelled Finland's M. Oinonen to a near photo finish with the Finn just one second behind at 18.15 over immediately skied back into the course about six gates behind Front. Front noticed Tresch had gone out of the course, but did not see him return. Off the last jump. Front held up his arms high in a victory salute and skied straight down the hill, no longer in the course. Meanwhile, Mean-while, Tresch was making his way down through the gates and stunned the youngster when he crossed the finish line. Front buried his face in his hands as the jury decision was announced that Front, rather than Tresch, was disqualified for not skiing the entire course. Front and Kashiwa then met in the consolation round with the Frenchman defeating the 1975 World Pro Skiing Champion. March 4 Men's Slalom; Sunday, March 5 Women's Slalom. The international field of ski competitors will move to Waterville Valley for a men's Giant Slalom on Monday, Mon-day, March 6, and a women's Giant Slalom on Tuesday, March 7. This reverses the order previously scheduled. When World Cup ski racing comes to the United States in March, Americans will have the chance to see two-time World Cup champion cham-pion Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden duel with U.S. ace Phil Mahre on Mahre's home turf. During U.S. World Cup racing last year, Mahre and Stenmark split a pair of races. Blue Finn the total course. Beth Pax-son, Pax-son, 17, Charlotte, Vermont finished eighth for the next best American finish. U.S. Women's White Team racer Alison Spencer, also of Anchorage, turned in a third in the senior women's 5 kilometer race, thirty-nine seconds behind Finnish leader H. Takalo who finished the competition in a time of 17.01 minutes. Spencer's Spen-cer's sister-in-law, Lynn Vonderheide placed fifth in the internationally competitive com-petitive field dominated by Finns and West Germans. Slf - tf, CLIFF BERGMAN PHOTOGRAPHY Resort Center 649-8280 Team's To Be For the tirst time in '..6. Ski Team history, members of the national Alpine Team will include vision testing and training as part of an overall sportsmedicine program. Alpine Team members will be the first U.S. athletes involved in developing a complete visual fitness program, according to Bill Traeger, U.S. Ski Team executive exe-cutive Director. The vision program will be held February 22-26 in conjunction conjun-ction with the U.S. Senior National Alpine Championships Champion-ships at Lake Placid. New-York. New-York. The vision testing and training procedures are being developed by the Council on Sports Vision, sponsored by the Bausch and Lomb Soflens Division. The U.S. skiers will be tested for visual refractive error, quick and smooth focusing ability, accuracy, control, coordination with body movements and depth perception. per-ception. William Harrison, M.D., a sportsvision specialist from Town Race Tues. There is still time to hot wax and practice gate smashing before the 11:30 a.m. start of the second Town Race scheduled for Tuesday, February 28. The giant slalom course on Clementine will be run once by each member of the three-person teams. The teams will be co-ed with two of whichever you desire. The classes will be A (pro, ski patrol, ski school), B 0 uair Race The fifth race of the Duaine Brown Grand Prix of Ski Racing series to have been held at the Park City Resort last Thursday and Friday was cancelled due to insufficient pre-race preparation. "Rick Newton of Duaine Brown advised that the race be cancelled due to inadequate preparation at their end," Park City marketing director Craig V Eyesight Tested Southern California and a member of the council, will supervise the program with the aid of eye doctors from New York State. "Since sportsmedicine is a big part of our Ski Team program; a complete eye examination and testing is a logical step for us," says Traeger. "Obviously, ski racing is a reaction sport and reacting to the gates during competition depends on good eyesight. We are quite hopeful that the program will help our skiers see, ski and react better." Dr. Harrison will advise the skiers on visual aids and training that can help them improve performance on the slopes. If vision correction is needed, the skiers will be fitted fit-ted with soft or hard contact lenses, or with glasses. "Visual fitness is essential to top performance in skiing," notes Harrison. "Even a minor adjustment in vision correction or a slight change in the way an athlete uses his eyes to coordinate coor-dinate information can make the difference between winning win-ning and losing." (intermediates who have raced before) and C (beginnerintermediate (begin-nerintermediate with no racing experience). The entry fee is $9 per team and registration must be completed at the Information Infor-mation Kiosk at the resort plaza on Monday, February 27 between 9a.m. and 4 p.m. Following the race there will be an awards party. Party details will be available upon registration. Brown Axed Badami said. The B circuit pro race was to have been a joint effort between the crews of the race series and the resort. Badami said the resort could have been ready for the Thursday qualifications, even if crews had had to work through the night to , ready the course. "If they're still interested, we feel we owe them a race," Badami said. 0 " iqO- Page9 Ski Contest Set At Sun Valley From the Tomorrow Elkhorn U.S. championships champion-ships for men and women and a $5,000 purse will be up for grabs March 14-15, during the fourth annual Cuervo National Para-Ski championships at Elkhorn in Sun Valley. A field of up to 75 contestants con-testants is expected for the Cuervo meet which combines com-bines accuracy parachuting with ski racing. The man and woman with highest Combined Com-bined scores for both events will be designated U.S. champions by the U.S. Parachute Association (USPA). Contestants must make two accuracy parachute jumps from a 3,000 foot altitude aiming for a target measuring only three and one-quarter inches in diameter. The next day they make two ski runs down a giant slalom course. Para-Skiing began in America at Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1970. Since then about 25 major contests have been held, with interest growing each year. The USPA estimates there are 25,000 sport parachutists in this country and that many participate in para-skiing. "Para-skiing began in Europe during the early 1960s," according to Cuervo contest director Kim Som- I mitts pre hi TOiminG eiiriTSiass I LEARN THE TELEMARK TURN Saturday, February 25 10a.rn. 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