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Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah,' Sunday, February Page G4 16, 1992 OLYMPICS: .,.,.. (Continued from Page G2) Canada's Kurt Browning also felt Wylie skated the best program of the night. But neither Bowman, who finished fourth, nor Todd 10th, agreed. "I'm not a judge. I know a lot about skating, but not about judging," Bowman said. "But they felt what Viktor had done was very Eld-redg- y" and jumps," Eldredge said. "There's a lot of pressure on you out there, and I think (Petrenko) responded." ; It wasn't just the big American crowd that gave Wylie a standing ovation. Virtually the entire crowd packing the arena stood and cheered him in the loudest, warmest response of the night. Moments later, they booed just as hard at the judges' low scoring on technical merit. Wylie had no complaints. "I'm overjoyed with my placement with the silver medal," he said. "I don't look back. This is the happiest moment of my life. " He tenderly fingered the medal hanging from the ribbon on his chest. "Now, I have a silver medal," he said. "That is something that is serendipity. I can't quite believe it. This is one to stop on. I feel very glad that this was my last one. I'm glad that I don't have to endure sort of going down the tubes. " The silver gave the Americans six medals, tying in one week their total in 1988. But it still wasn't as much as they hoped for. Only the surprise silver by Lindh in downhill skiing six hundredths of a second behind gold Canada of Lee-Gartn- er salvaged the afternoon. overcame falling Lee-Gartn- er snow and foggy conditions to comrun down the plete the treacherous "Iron Rock" course in minute, 52.55 seconds. "My wedding was the biggest day of my life, but this is up there with it," said. "A friend of mine back in Calgary always said, 'All or nothing,' and that's what I did." 1 Lee-Gartn- er from JuLindh, a neau, Alaska, looked calm but insisted her insides were churning after winning America's first Olympic Alpine skiing medal since the five in Sarajevo in 1984. .A v i A - V i s. , ' ? ? V . tf V 'mu - - The United States hockey team kept its record perfect Saturday night as Ray LeBIanc got his second Olympic shutout in a surprisingly difficult 0 victory over Poland, the lowest seed in the tournament. Poland (0-played evenly with the Americans (4-for more than half the game. It was scoreless until Shawn McEachern scored at 14:47 of the second period. Tim Sweeney added his third goal of the tournament 3-- 4) 0) i - ' . ' ' - i i - 1 - f ' (l f' r i ""- - 'v i I V,I ! u ? . . - . V AP Laserphoto. ' n The U.S. bobsled team of Brian Shimer (left) and brakeman Herschel Walker steer their sled, the Olympic course Saturday. They are 9th place going into Sunday's final two runs. through two-ma- So far, U.S. bobsledders fizzling j&k AP Laserphoto speedskater Dan Jansen flies around a curve in the 500 meters Saturday. He finished a disappointing fourth in 37.45. U.S. "I don't think it's quite hit yet," she said. "You know, I've been thinking about this all week, what I was going to do, how I would react and everything. I've been picturing myself coming down but I never really expected it. "It didn't feel like that good a run, but it was good enough. I'm really psyched. I just can't believe it. I always dreamed about this and I can't believe it happened. ' ' Neither skier showed any fear of the two bumps that caused several accidents during a week of practice. bone-breaki- Veronika Wallinger of Austria took the bronze, finishing ahead of the two countrywoman Petra Kronberger, the two-tim- e World Cup overall champion, and World Cup downhill leader Katja Seizinger of Germany. moment of glory in his return to the Olympics. Racing in the second of 22 pairs on a chilly, rainy afternoon, Jansen took the lead in 37.46 seconds. Dozens of his friends and relatives some holding their breath, othfelt ers cheering all the way tremendous relief when he crossed the finish line still on his skates. But they and Jansen knew his time might not hold. Sure enough, in the next pairing, the gold slipped away when Japan's Junichi Inoue surprised everyone with a time of 37.26 seconds in his first year of international competition. Next up was Jansen 's longtime s rival, German Mey, who sped around the oval in 37. 14. That put Jansen third. In the sixth pairing, Japan's Kuroiwa moved ahead of Inoue for the silver of a second behind Mey and it was all over for Jansen. No one else would surpass him, allowing him to match the fourth-plac- e finish he posted in the 500 in 1984, but he would leave once more LA PLAGNE, France (AP) -While the Americans had the big name, other countries had the big n Olympush Saturday in pic bobsledding. Herschel Walker's anticipated explosion from the gate never happened as the No. 1 U.S. sled, pushed by the Minnesota Vikings running back and driven by Brian Shimer, was a disappointing ninth going into Sunday's two final runs. Their team wasn't in the top 10 in push times on either of their two Saturday runs and ended up .41 seconds behind the pace set by a two-ma- pared the deficit to needing a field! goal to win a football game. "We know we can make up-.- ; enough ground," Walker said.'; "It's going to come down to who can stand the pressure. Brian been here before and there's no" doubt I love pressure, so I think things will work out well." "j Walker has been busy playing., football and this is his first compel.; tition with Shimer this season. Pre'' viously, they had been in only one international competition. i.'i "We're not that far out of third: or first," Walker said. of obscure British soldiers couple Mark Tout and Lenny Paul. "We're still in the hunt," an optimistic Walker declared, but Shimer was more cautious, admitting that he had expected to be first or second and saying: "It's going to be a battle to get back to the top." The Americans haven't won an ; V i Olympic bobsled medal since takbronze in 1956, ing the four-ma- n and while they're not yet out of it this time, their task is imposing. Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner from Georgia, com : Uwe-Jen- ki hs Germany still ruled the medals chart with 15, six of them gold. Austria was second with 14 medUnified als, and the Russian-le- d Team was third with 13. The Americans expected better than a sixth-plac- e tie with Italy, and they had the men to blame. Jansen, the heartbreak kid of Calgary who fell in two races shortly after his sister died of leukemia in 1988, enjoyed just a brief American hockey team KO's Pola nd MERIBEL, France (AP) j. , e, difficult and very good. " Eldredge said they both skated well, and it could have gone either way. "Petrenko has such great artistr- medalist Kerrin ' at 17:39, and Marty Mclnnis scored at 13:07 of the third. LeBIanc, the Olympics' leading goaltender, has given up just one goal in his last three games and four in the tournament. Poland had been outscored 23-- 4 and outshot in its other three 8 games. The United States already has qualified for the medal round and leads its division with one preliminary game left. Sweden, which tied Finland 2 Saturday, is , and faces the United States on Monday night. 98-5- 2-- -1 without a medal. IAVEL NOTICI Tooke Travel of Provo, is an Authorized Ticketing Agent for ALL of the Morris Air Service Airline Tickets and Vacation Packages! ft a;c? Same Low Prices Excellent Service NO EXTRA FEES CALL TOOKE TRAVEL 377-410- 0 Drabek gets deal worth $4.5 million - NEW YORK (AP) Doug Drabek of Pittsburgh became the fifth highest-paipitcher Saturday while a pair of Texas Rangers split their arbitration cases. Kevin Brown of the Rangers d won, while teammate Kenny Rogers lost. In addition, Boston Jody Reed lost his hearing, leaving owners with a 10-- 5 advantage in cases decided this far. Drabek, who won in arbitration last year at a record $3.35 million, deal worth agreed to a one-ye54. 5 million. The salary ties him for 12th overall by average annual mi Arbitrator Gil Vernon chose Brown's request of $1.2 million instead of the Rangers' offer of $750,000. 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