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Show ' 1 1 McKinney loses overall slalom title to Swiss Park Record Thursday, March 5, 1987 Page B5 The Winter World University Games in Czechoslovakia provided ski racers with some racing activity as the World Cup schedule took a breather early last week in both alpine and nordic competition. Taking first in the men's giant slalom was Peter Jurko of Czechoslovakia finishing close to a half a second ahead of Peter Popangelov of Bulgaria. The bronze medal went to Terry Delliquadri of the United States. Other U.S. finishers included Jeff Durtschi in 15thh place, James Vogel in 16th, Karl Schlopy in 21st, Art Lussi in 24th, Stephen Porino in 32nd and Scott Windemuller in 37th. In the women's giant slalom Monday, Mon-day, Feb. 25, Czechoslovakians skiers won the top two places with Ludmila Milanova taking the gold and Ivana Walesova the silver. An-. An-. dreja Leskovsek of Yugoslavia won the bronze. U.S. finishers included Sondra Van Ert in 14th, Kelli Brown in 15th, Jill Robins in 16th, Darcy Byrne in 18th, and Amie Guilford in 36th. In other World University Games, McDonalds is undefeated in league play As of Thursday, Feb. 26, McDonalds continued its lead in the 1987 Park City Men's Basketball League with an unblemished record after beating Wasatch Aleing, 78-26. McDonalds has continued to mark its strength against teams Wasatch Aleing, Cofer Chiropractic, Mrs. Fields, The Alamo and Deuel Carpentry, going into the '87 league tournament with a record of 8-0. On Feb. 26, The Alamo and Cofer walked away with wins after respectively respec-tively beating Mrs. Fields, 77-59, and Cofer winning by forfeit against Deuel Carpentry. The region tournament is set to start March 5 and continue on the 12th. Following McDonalds is a three-team three-team tie for second between Cofer, The Alamo and Mrs. Fields with five wins each. Wasatch and Deuel Carpentry take up the rear with a 1-7 loss. Two teams tied in corporate race series Glen Ivy Resorts paced by Kris Furukawa and Sean Railton, nipped American Express in the third race of the 1987 Utah Corporate Ski Racing Rac-ing Series. Glen Ivy rounded in an overall team time of 222.37, compared to the American Express time of 222.89. The dual slalom held under sunny skies at Deer Valley Resort on Feb. 28, brought together over 100 competitors com-petitors representing 16 Utah corporations. cor-porations. The team results constitute a 'winner-take-all' situation for the series finals, a giant slalom which will be held March 21 at the Park City Ci-ty Ski Area. Currently, American Express and defending champion Questar I are in a virtual tie (87 points apiece) followed by Northwest Ski Club (81 pts.) and Glen Ivy Resorts (78 pts.). Furukawa of Glen Ivy Resorts easily captured the victory in both runs on Saturday with a combined time of 58.46. In the women's races, Carolyn Coulam, of Questar I, clocked clock-ed in a time of 59.91 for second place. Coulam was followed by Susan Glasmann, also of Questar I, in third with a time of 60.13, Judy Merry from North West Ski Club came in fourth with 60.39 and Kristin Sohrweide of Glen Ivy Resorts was fifth in 60.80. On the men's side, Chris Tomcyzk, of American Express, captured his second consecutive slalom victory with a time of 46.37. In doing so, Tomcyzk moved into first place for the men's individual point championship. cham-pionship. Sean Railton, of Glen Ivy Resort was second, 46.60; followed by Scott Siemon, of Genesis, in 47.17; Tad Rasmussen, American Express, Ex-press, in 47.45; and Joel Langraph, Hercules, in 48.78. The series, in its fifth season, is sponsored by Glen Ivy Resorts and supported by Cole Sport Ltd., Schirf Brewing Co., Park Photo, Reflex, Digitar, Skiis Dynastar, KCPX-99 FM, and Robert-John Skiwear. VITA is a Voluntwr Income Tax Assist anre program. Its volume?! may be able to help you to complete vimr lax return. Check .with the IKS for details. 1 H'M .1 II w i fr-k V the U.S. contingency managed a silver and a bronze in the downhill event held Feb. 25. As Ludmila Milanova of Czechoslovakia won the gold medal, Sondra Van Ert of Bountiful, UT., took home second and Eva Pfosi of Franconia, N.H. in third. Terry Delliquadri won the bronze in the men's downhill action for the U.S. In World Cup action held on Friday, Fri-day, Feb. 27, Maria Wallizer of Switzerland moved into a first place tie in the World Cup giant slalom standings Friday with an impressive win in Zwiesel, West Germany. The victory gave Walliser 110 points in the World Cup giant slalom standings, the same total as teammate, team-mate, Vreni Schneider. Tamara McKinney of the U.S. recovered from a fall in the first run to finish eighth. Debbie Armstrong did not finish the first run and the only on-ly other U.S. skier, Eva Twar-dokens, Twar-dokens, fell after finishing 27th in the first run. On Saturday, Feb. 28, Corinne Schmidhauser of Switzerland World Cup Update vaulted past Tamara McKinney to win the World Cup slalom championships champion-ships for the 1986-87 season. McKinney started the day with a slim two-point lead over Schmidhauser in the slalom standings, stan-dings, 99 to 97. Two other Swiss skiers, Erika Hess and Vreni Schneider, were also within striking distance of McKinney. After winning the first slalom of the season here in Park City on Nov. 30, Schmidhauser took the lead after the first run and never looked back, winning by more than seven tenths of a second over Erika Hess. McKinney managed a seventh place after the first run but hooked a tip midway through the second run and spun off the course. Among the others who did not finish were teammates team-mates Eva Twardokens and Debbie Armstrong. Final slalom standings stand at Schmidhauser in first with 110 points, McKinney second with 99, Hess third with 96, Schneider fourth with 84 and Brigitte Oertli fifth with 77. Meanwhile in men's downhill com-petition, com-petition, Peter Mueller of Switzerland captured the gold ahead of Marc Girardelli of Luxenbourg. In third was Michael Mair of Italy, fourth went to Karl Alpiger of Switzerland and fifth to Rob Boyd of Canada. Among the U.S. skiers, Doug Lewis came up with his best World Cup performance of the year to finish seventh. Jeff Olson of the U.S. finished 14th. On Sunday, Giradelli pulled ahead to take the lead ahead over Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland in the men's super G. Third place went to Leonard Stock of Austria, fourth to Karl Albiger. Once again, Doug Lewis captured the top American finish in 26th, followed by Andreas Rickenback in 33rd and Bill Hudson in 44th. Molly's Ski Tips by Holly Flanders Basic ski stance Icy conditions present one of skiing's greatest challenges. We all know what it's like to come upon an ice patch while skiing. The sight of ice makes us freeze up instantly, and clinch and tighten up every muscle in our bodies. Pretty soon you're sliding sideways out of control until you hit some snow that your edges can dig into or until we come to an embarrassing stop on the flat at the bottom of the pitch. The very first thing to do to conquer the slick stuff is to make sure that you have some well-tuned edges. If the edges are burred or dull, there's no way you'll be able to hold an edge on the ice. Even the best technique in the world wouldn't help in that case. Either bring the skis into a ski shop to have them tuned or buy your own file and touch your skis up every day. The key to skiing on the ice is to put a lot of weight on the outside ski to make it hold. It's important to prepare the turn early. Make a good pole plant, get the outside ski on its edge very early and make a nice carved turn. Think of a carved turn as a clean, narrow arc drawn in the snow by the ski with little skid. Things happen quickly on the ice, so take the initiative and attack. Be subtle, yet powerful, and increase the pressure on the outside ski in the turn, making it bite into the ice. Then prepare for the next turn by planting the pole and getting the new outside ski on its edge early. The ice will amplify any technical flaws you may have in your skiing. Consequently, Conse-quently, ice is a good teacher and it behooves us to get out there on the icy days and use it to our advantage to learn to ski properly! r APsM" - p'&4$$& )M; A ( - ;b. .. v I V:: ' 4 "MM 1 ALSO COLMAR REDUCED 30 The Best of Snug PC Resort Center 649-7688 IV v J! l iy 1 U More than a Legend Snug at Deer Valley Deer Valley Plaza 649-3772 m ft |