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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Mond: y, February 1, 1999 D5 SCOREBOARD Skater Bobek Comes to Salt Lake To Erase Her Nagano Nightmare SUOGEIEOOON = BY KURT KRAGTHORPE {HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Nicole Bobek’s strongest memory Figureskating eligibility is not as simple as “pro” and “amateur” in the traditional sense ae can per- m in the Nagano Olyinpies last ebruaryis how fast everything hap- gible, but pro “competition” takes them outof events such as the U theladies’ figure skating short pro pened. That makes sense, because Bobek’s scores resembled 40-yard dash times: 44s and 4.5s, on a 6.0 scale Just like that — 2 minutes, 40sec. onds, actually — Bobek was cut of form and make big y in touring productions and remain Olympic-eliChampionshipsand the Olympics So while Olympic champion ‘Tara Lipinski has movedon, silver medalist Michelie Kwan and stayed. They give the Bobek have ‘99 Nationals the Americans? Hardto do, from 17th onthe intrigue of anew cycleofskaters preparing for It happened so quick, it waslikeI couldn't even think,” Bobek said last week, “It waslike, ‘Did that just hap- 2002, but Bobekclearly would be too old bytheninthis sport. She already medal contention. A 1-2-3 finish for piace after the short program Nearly a year later, Bobek will It Lake City for next week's State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Actually, only because of thedisaster in Nagano did e remain an ainateurskater at age If | had turnedpro, it would have sacle an easy way out,” shesaid eeded to do moreout there. I aia t ats what I'd been put on the ice to do. You don’t want to finish ona notelikethat. A lot of people told me differently, and said no. 2002 The 18-year-old Kwanis targeting acknowledges that Olympic-level training at is “so hard.” Yetthis season is a newbeginning forher, living on her ownfor thefirst time and returning to the Detroit Skating Club, who coached her as the U.S. champion in 1995 and worked with Lipinski and Todd Eldredge, among others. We've definitely come a long way,” says Bobek, Chicago product whose mother and grandmotherskated in the Czech Republic. “We work muchbetter than we did in ‘95. I'm older, andwe just communicatea lot ih Games of J better. He's verytough. Believe me,if my muscles couldtell you, they ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS LUGE Italian Armin Zoeggeler, an Olympie silver and bronze medalist, won singles race at Koenigssee, on the final day of the World Luge Championships eggeler raced down the 16-turn WINTER SPORTS win the world title for the second time since 199 Germany's Jens Mueller, the 1988 Olympic champion,finishedsecondat 35.819, TheU.S. teamgot a bronze in men’s doubles from Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin, who also werethird at the 1998 Olympics. a FOUR-MAN BOBSLED Switzerland's Marcel Rohner won the final four-man bobsled raceat St. Moritz, Switzerland, but couidn’tprevent Olympic champion Christoph Langen from capturing the World Cuptitle. Langen won the two-man World Cup title Saturday, then went for the sweep, collecting the four-mantitle andthe combined Sunday Langen topped the season's fourman World Cup standings with 233 points, ahead of Rohner, who also finished second to Langen atthe 1998 Olympics. Qo SKI JUMPING Noriaki Kasai helped Japan complete a sweepat the ski jumping World Cup atWillingen, Germany Kasai also won Friday's individual 819 9 550 358 Bobek had switched to Carlo Fassi, who died in 1997, and was coached by Fassi’s daughter Christa through the "98 Olympics. Dropped Out No 24 Tes hs Miami (Pia) 135, 25 Oklahoma ters Reig Votes — Mi 5 (154 4 Big West Bobekdid not face the news media. assembled the hallway between the ice and the dressing room, after the short programin Nagano. She spoke triumphantly two nights later, suggesting that just completing thelong programwas a victory, but nothing could erasethe first night’s struggles. oy All GamesPet Junior College Summaries Ricks 66, Utah Valley 62 07) Bobek knows that. Very devastating” is her deseription. “A verylowpoint, but there was Contereae AU Games Utah Valley L Pe. Pe 4 0444 Kai 8 Three nothing I could do.” ExceptcometoSalt Lake City next week and try for another U.S. title. Naturally, Kwan is the favorite, but as Bobekpoints out, Kwan wasfavored in Nagano, too. “You can neversay never, really.” Bobekwill compete with a newtriple-triple jump combination — details Calst Puli UC Irvine rs han Salt Lake 90, North I a at y Utah Valley 4, North Idaho 67 North Ida mn Hiadgens F ah Valley Mid-Continent Conterrae All Games Pa W not revealed yet — and a new long program,apparentlyskated to music from“Titanic. “That's the rumor, she says. jumpingevent and helped Japan to victory in Saturday's team event Kasaihad jumpsof 127 and 128 meters for 261.5 points. He was followed by Austria's Andreas Widhoez] with 0points after jumpsof 124.5 and 128 Martin Schmitt of Germany wound wpfourthaftertaking secondFrid It was only the fourth tim eventsthat Schmitt didn't medalthis season But his jumpsof 125 and 120.5 me ters for 243.9 points movedhimcloser in the overall standings to Finland's Janne Ahonen,whose uneven landing on the secondjumpled to a 14th-place finish, Ahonen has 1,348 points and Schmitt is second with 1.188. aa Mich 0.0 00 7-13 380 ble for automatic bi _(Water Athletic Mouniain en : Conference ia All Games i wnwy vt : Ieeu as 3 6 Colorado$i 6 vom 33 SM 2 2 ArForePate ° sara Al Grae Wie Pe W \ Pat % 0 1000 1 i RESORT __BASE_NEW ALTA i" BEAVER MT. (435) 753-0921 Hiesaee 830 eae oe cen N 800 o 0 ‘-P All lif ree = THE CANYONS (435) 649. Packed-Powder. 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Lajunen was second in the jumping behind Russian Alexei Fadeev but he stalked Fadeev, who faded in the cross-country skiing phase ofthe twoeventsport, until he took the lead, and stayed ahead. Lodwick, fourth in jumping and starting 33 seconds behind Lajunen pulled into secondplace on the second of three laps and kept closing on the Finnbut couldn't catch him t should've been a 20K race,” Lodwick joked at the finish The World Cup Tourtakes a break in February with the nordic World ChampionshipsFeb. 18-28 in Ramsau, Austria, before the final three weeks of the season o 2 eet tee Compiled by: R.C. 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