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Show August 3,1996 __TheSalt LakeTribune1996 SUMMER GAMESSaturday, Dream Team’s Goals: Win, Leave Davenport Wins Gold In an Upset BYLEX HEMPHILL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ATLANTA — The members of the United States men’s Olympic basketball team have two muchanticipated events scheduled this THE ASSOCIATED PRESS weekend —a gold-medalgameto- STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — night against Yugoslavia and a flight home early Sunday morn ing. Their only danger would be failing to keep the two in their proper order “Everybody would like to get it » Jubilant in victory, Lindsay Davenport hurried across the court to celebrate with her family in section 114, where she was greeted with cheers and tears and hugs and even praise over with,” said Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan, one of the Dream Team's assistant coaches, after the team’s final practice at Atlanta Metro- “They just said, ‘Oh, we're so proud of you, and you're awe- some’ or whatever,” Davenport said with a giggle. “They very politan College Friday. “Hopefully, we'll keep everything in perspective and worry about playing basketball and playingit well be- rarely compliment me.” But an Olympic gold medalist deserves a pat on the back, and fore we go. Thats the bottom line.” e The Jazz's Karl Malone, who Davenport became one Friday. With help from a friendly net cord on the final point of the opening set, the second-generation Olympian beat Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 7-6 (86), 6-2. “This means eve! to me,” Davenport said. “No matter what happens in mylife, I'll always be a gold medalist.” In the match for the bronze, Jana Novotna erased two set points in the first set and beat Mary Joe Fernandez 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge of Australia won the gold in men's doubles, defeating England’s Tim Henmanand Neil U.S. synchronized swimmers perform their free routine Friday nighton the wayto a gold medal in the team competition. Near-Perfect U.S. Wins A Synchronized Gold THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — The 10 members of the U.S. synchronized swim team plan to retire after the faces unseeded Spaniard Sergi Bruguera in a best-of-5 final today. Defending champions Fer- near-perfect performance depicting the parts of an orchestra to werereplaced this year by a team nandez and Gigi Fernandez play Novotna and Helena Sukova of the Czech Republicin the final of women’s doubles. Davenport's victory, easily the biggest of her career, delighted a partisan crowd of 11,000 that in- cluded her father, Wink, who played volleyball for the United States at the 1968 Olympics. “To win any medal was beyond my parents’ expectations, for sure,” said Davenport, of Newport Beach, Calif. synchro and maintain American dominanceof the sport. TheUnited Statesfinished with a score of 99.720 points for the two-day competition and Friday night received nine perfect 10s from the judges for their stirring five-minute routine. Only the judge from Switzerland did not give the American team a perfect score The scores from the final routine counted for 65 percentof the total. Canada took the silver with a Joyner-Kersee Wins a Bronze In Her Finale @ win the first team gold medalin Continued from B-1 could knock Joyner-Kersee off the victory stand. Xanthou tried to exhort the American crowd to make some noise, but she found no takers However, when her last jump came up a half-foot short of Joyner-Kersee’s, the stands erupted with cheers. Joyner-Kersee finished behind score of 98.367 and Japan the bronze with 97.753. Those three countries have won every medal awarded in synchronized swimming in the Olympics. women have won more Olympic medals — swimmerShirley Babashoff captured eight and gymnast Shannon Miller brought her total to seven with two medals in Atlanta Joyner-Kersee will be remem- bered as more than an athlete. Shewas a virtuoso, a Pavarotti in a sand pit. Her performances — marked by graceful elegance rather than brute strength — once caused her husband to remark, “I feellike I should be wearing a tux when I watch them.” It was an appropriate analogy for someone who took her first name from another woman who was the epitomeofstyle, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. JoynerKersee’s grandmother picked out her name, explaining that “‘some- day, this little girl is going to be the first lady of something.” right off the bat. By no means at all will this distract us from doing what we camehereto do.” pointed rounds, but Sloan understandsthe players’ antsyfeelings He explained that in the NBA these players are used to hopping from one city to another. not to being confined to the same place for more than two weeks — especially under such high security The U.S. went into Friday's free routine competition with a lead of 442 over Canada after Tuesday's and in the wake of the bomb ex- plosion a week ago just outside technical routine In the free routine, each team is the team’s hotel Maionesaid he felt “just like a colt being pent up in a pen for a month and then you put him ona judged onvariety, creativity, pool coverage, patterns and transitions. Performing before a packed and Americanflag-waving house at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, the U.S. team went through a racetrack — that's where I'mat. He acknowledgedthathis general testiness may have contributed to the encounter he had with Australias Andrew Vlahov in Thurs- five-minute routine filled with upside-down moves and complex formations. The United States was the last of the eight teams to perform. Just ahead of them, Canada had putona solid routinethat included one 10 and fournines. The Canadian swimmers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Summer Olympics on Friday night, combining poise and power dodged questions on whether they thought the U.S. team wasas good as the judges’ scores indicated All feel is pride in how we Floyd Mayweather Jr., 125, and where anyone competing against Mr. Jetchev’s fellow countrymen Antonio Tarver, 178, were beathe won,and U.S. boxing officials angrily agreed. Reid knocked down Karim Tu- do not have a chance, as was demonstrated in this bout.” laganovof Uzbekistan in the sec- headofreferees and officials for the International Amateur Box- ond round and won a 12-4 decision before a roaring crowdat the Alexander Memorial Coliseum. ‘The victory meant thatall six U.S. medals won't be bronze. “For all my life, I can say 'm the last Americanto takeit to the championship at the Olympic Games,” said the 22-year-old Reid, of Philadelphia. Mayweather, 19, of Grand Rapids, Mich., suffered a disheartening 10-9 loss at 128 pounds to Serafim Todoroy of Bulgaria, a twotime world champion and a 1992 complaints from friends and family NBChas televised 100 minutes of men’s basketball, network spokesman The Jazz never did see Danilone was injured | Ed Markey says, but more Since then, it’s been sev en minutes here, eight minutes there Charles Barkley called NBC“hypocrites. Theytell people we're ‘Then they show very little of the game. That's dis: it to attract viewers into watching other sports ee out, so that’s what I need to do. said Malone, whose wife, Kay, has returned for the gold-medal game, after which they'll both fly “I got one more day and I'm going totryto put mybest foot forward. and after that I'm going home. going to my place in Arkansas to relax Malone said he didn’t want people to get the impression that In Semifinal and center Venus Lacey for some @ Continued from B-1 10-minute span that turned the game around Maherafter his team lost to the Americans for the second timein this tournamentandthefifth time their shots. many of which Maher thought were makeable, the Americans just kept pounding the “I don’t think Brazil but the U.S. will have a tougher time defending against Brazil.” Maherscoffs at the notion that the American women are as unbeatabie here as the American men are. He thinks the Dream Team is on another level, particularly because of its depth — “Their bottom four guys and me would probably win the gold medal,” he said. But he doesn’t see that depth on the women’s team. “You take the first five away, and the U.S. would not be what they are,” he said, giving his highest praise to the inside tandem of Lisa Leslie and Katrina McClain. who combined for 40 points against his team Friday “To beat them, you're going to have to beat that first group. Funny, but American Coach Tara VanDerveer, who took a sabbatical from Stanford to prepare ing Association. US. official Bill Waeckerle of Rapid City, S.D., resigned from the Olympics and AIBA because this team for the gold medal. actually thinks her team’s depth is the asset that can be decisive against Brazil. And she can point to the semifinal victory over Australia of the decision. When the decision was announced, referee Hamad Hafaz Shouman of Egypt raised Mayweather’s hand, but quickly corrected his error, as as evidence. The United States was struggling early, falling behind by 1810, largely due to the incredible Mayweatherlooked stunned SALT LAKE COUNTY SURPLUS AUTO SALES United States. Antonio Tarver, the 27-year- old world 178-pound champion, SALT LARE COUNTY nes with the Heat but Sloan said, “He's a pretty good offensive player. He knows how to play and he knows how to get open. Danilovic leads Yugoslavia in scoring in the tournament at 17.9 points per game, and he forms a good backcourt with point guard Aleksandar Djordje- vie We've watched them play 2 couple of games and seen them on tape here and there,” said Sloan They execute well. Theypass the ball. If we don’t get out and de- fend them. we could find our- selves in trouble. Troubie is not something the Americans have seen much of here. They are winning their games by an average margin of 32.3 points, but they have been challenged in the first half of down: a I'm feeling kind of like the emotions start at your toes and they comeall the way up and I just need to take a deep breath out of here. for their t most of their games. The run day’s semifinal victory Trip Aussies could defend them as well as us, Emil Jetchev of Bulgaria is the Olympic quarterfinalist. The bout was officially protested by the Charlotte and guard Sasha Danilovie of Miami players, who are hearing chele Timms. But VanDerveer went to her bench for guards this year. stan. Of Mayweather’s loss, Gerald Smith, the U.S. team manager, en, although Mayweather thought starters in center Viade Divae of of the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball games hasnt gone unnoticed among the Nikki McCray and Dawn Staley important minutes, and they con- tributed to a 27-4 blitz during a While the Aussies could nothit led after the first roundin battle of left-handers, then faded and lost 15-9 to Vassili Jirov of Kazak- who filed the protest, said, “We feel the officials are intimidated to advanceto the 156-poundfinal —are also 7-0 in the tournament and they boast a couple of NBA long-range shooting of the Aussies’ little 31-year-old guard. Mi- Women Controversy Hits Boxing As Americans Struggle ATLANTA — David Reid kept U.S. boxers from becoming known as the Bronze Boys of the haps more accurately, the Serbs NBC's skimpy coverage via and NBC appointing. They're doing Rarely, it seems, has a team been so eager to complete its ap- | But he and his teammates — “It’s not just me” — have been here long enough. Of course, Atlanta will forever haunt them if they leave here without winning tonight. And Yugoslavia is better than any of the teams the Americans have played so far. The Yugoslavs — or, per- Yugosla- two adversaries: the barn. excellence ren Clark. Dream Team considered going to be on. andthat at tracts viewers,” he said event and the U.S. again achieved gold medal performance.” men’s basketball game. the It’s all down to one game. and it's the game we've all been shooting at.” said the Jazz's John Stockton, “so you definitely can smell petition, Those two competitions swam and pride to have a silver medal around myneck,” said Ka- team replied: “It was definitely a “Our first task at handis to take care of Yugoslavia and get on ‘em had won four golds and two sil- Nathalie Schneyder of the U.S. Chioma Ajunwa of Nigeria, who took the gold with a leap of 234%, and Fiona MayofItaly, who wonsilver at 23-02. “It was definitely a medal of courage,” said Bob Kersee, Jackie’s husband, coach and soulmate. After four Olympics, JoynerKersee’s medal total is remarkable: three golds, one silver and two bronzes. Only two American Canada nowhastwo goldsandfivesilvers. whileall seven of Japan's medals are bronze. Asked if the high scores the Americans received werea reflection of the homepool advantage stay under tight security here, said he’s got his priorities right. and Barcelona, U.S. swimmers vers in individual and duet com- PRESS was devoted to the first game against Argentina the games at Los Angeles, Seoul good farewell party Friday night. The Americans fashioned a THE ASSOCL ATLANTA — On the eve of the gold medal than one-third of that time the Olympic program in 1984. In second-generation Olympian, They threw a pretty friendships I thought I'd never have.” Upset With NBC his wariness over the extended synchrosince it becamea part of Olympics. this summer. Hesaid he has made Dreamers Are has been open about expressing ‘The Americans have dominated Broad 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Top seed Andre Agassi, another he’s been having a miserable time two-point leadat the half against it lead after 18 minute: gola, a tie with Lithuania after 18 minutes, a six-point lead after 15 minutes against Brazil, and a tie with Australia after 15 minutes. If Yugoslavia can carry that challenge into the second half then the American pros will be looking at more pressure than they've faced in the last two Olympics. Still, they're thinking nothing but gold. After all, they have a lot of pent-up energy to expend tonight 11 points. The Americansshot 59 percentfrom the fieid. in keeping with their tournament-long effi ciency that has put five of their players among the top six in shooting accuracy The U_S. women have won their seven games here by an average margin of 29 points. Theyare unbeaten and dominant, and they have had the advantage for their last five games of playing to bois- terous crowds of 30,000-plus at the Georgia Dome. Theyhave ev- ball inside to the 6-foot-5 Leslie erything in their favor to win the and the 6-foot-2 McClain. Suddenly, that 18-10 deficit was til transformed into a 37-22 U.S lead with four and a half minutes gold medal, but still there is Bra Eight of these 12 players, including all five starters, were on left in the half the team that hadtosettle for the bronze medalin Sydneytwo years termission, grew to 20 after just agoafter the loss in the semifinals two and a half minutes of the secondhalf, and the Americans were neverin trouble after that For the Aussies, who got a the top of the backboard and went The lead remainedat 15 at in- game-high 27 points from the 5- foot-5 Timms, there is still a chance at their first Olympic med- al since women's basketball was introduced into the Games in 1976; they play Ukraine for the bronze Sunday to Brazil. Leslie remembered. ‘They shot very well, something like 67 or 70 percent. The balls hit in VanDerveer was the coach of that U.S. team, and she recounted an incident after the gold-medal game in which the Americans happenedto be on the same bus as the Brazilians, who were natural- The United States had five ly ina celebratory mood. She said players in double figures. including four of the members of that vaunted starting five that Maher so admires. Leslie had 22 points and 13 rebounds, McClain 18 the celebration, but “all it did for meis serve as motivation.” From that time to this, the Americans have wanted a re- points and 15 rebounds, Sheryl Swoopes 16 points and Ruthie Bolton 12. The otherstarter, veteran playmaker Teresa Edwards, had eight assists. But, as for that bench that VanDerveer thinks could make the difference Sunday, the 5-foot-6 Staley was a sparkplug with seven assists and McCray contributed there was nothing offensive about match, and now theyhaveit. 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