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Show ___ TheSalt Lake Tribune SPORTS iKwan Has No iTrouble With | Skating, School ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Lookslike Michelle Kwan canbalance Saturday, October30, 1999 ane Slsn-laRy eRe 10% JOWASTATE an ie See Re Emson BOWL.GREEN * 5 WAKE C.Michigan aoe ie ILLINOIS KANSASSTATE MARSHALL The three-time U.S. champion and1998 Olympic silver medalist swept the 6 TOLEDO Tageaa oulsiana Tec! 1 AKRON Michi " N. Hitinois ve 7 ee 4 38 aa a eee 0 6 Virrinis Tech INDIANA Oregon Stat 2 6 cINCINNAT oe, rt Siame school and skating. Kwan received one perfect 6.0 for artistry Friday night and easily won ‘A the short program at Skate America. 28 2 questionable a Zow doubtful ty judging panel and gave an early indi. cationthat being a freshman at UCLA won't dampenherskating skills, “| was calm. I actually thought of school,” she said with a chuckle. “1 thought, ‘Whatam doing outhere? | should be doing homework.’ “Phen I thought, ‘School, skating — it’s all right to have somefun. I know I canlet it rip.’ ” Which is just what the two-time. world champion did. Kwan nailed a double axel to start off, hit a triple jutz-double toe loop combination, anda triple toe. Her spins were precise and her trademarkspirals were long. Sheso impressed the Russian judge that he gavehera 6.0, something Coach Frank Carroll called a first. It was her 2ist perfect score in Olympic-eligible competition. “didn't see the one 6.0,” she sai was too busy waving and saying, ‘Hi, mom, Hi, Karen.’ Mom and sister Karen had to be thrilled with Michelle’s season debut. “J still have that competitive feeling, even though I haveschoolto jug- FRIDAY'S GAMES CHARLOTTE (19) Mason 26 67 10 Campbell s15 $12 7, Wee Jones 13:22 35 34, B. 24006, Miler$629.4 Ro Hed 0.0000,Miskin1oD000Towls367 reason. 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Plentyof passing, plenty of bumping in the turns andthere's plentyof ‘Yagudin, using the season'sfirst cooperation between teammates and majorinternational competition as a nonteammates. Forget the “faster, tune-up — he will get nopoints here in stronger, higher” stuff the Olympics the Grand Prix series because he will proclaim is the essenceoftheir events. competein two otherevents — landed a Withshort track, it’s morelike, “craft‘The free skate, worth two-thirds of the totalscore, will be heid tonight. Two-time world champion Alexei Yagudin wonthe men’s short program. were slow, Still, he edged American champion Michael Weiss, who steppedoutofhis toe combination. Weiss, who will get points in this competition,edged counnan Timothy Goebel. Yagudin, who sweptthe nine-judge panel, claimed he didn’t know this was in exhibition event for him. “I don't know which of the competitionsI get points. Is this one?” he said, drawing ‘aughs.” ‘PASSENGER CAR TIRES Skaters Have Need for More Than Speed sionsat two rinks. “I know I can doit.” ‘ah Hughes, the 14-year-old ris- quad, but hada strong triple axel-triple eerrr salts to i is ls Portland 28, He hap2 Jones,Chico 25 (Kukoe iment (Dae 1al incalsPoruland, Wal San Charlotte 23, Chicago 94 Antonto coach Popovich. A—18(73. nto, Diva. A gle,” said Kwan, whohas put up with a hectic pace of schooland practice ses- quadruple toe loop.But histriple axeldouble toe was shakey andhis spins PHILADELPHIA (61) Lynch 1417,9722 & Kile B14 ie Hughes 994, Maclloeh $3 0010, Jones0:1 0.00, Bowen 2004.7 8212-19 NEWJERSEY(69 PORTLAND (10 ier, stronger, higher.” In Friday's opener ofthe World Cup short-track speed-skating eventat the Peaks Ice Arena, three events, the men’s 1,500 meters, the women’s 1,500 andthe women’s 1,500 relays were decided. Forshort trackers, the 1,500 is a long event, one that requires stamina and smarts. One mistake can prove costly. Just ask South Korea’s Joo Min-Jin, ranked sixth in the world. Sheskidded into the boards during the 1,500 semifinals, earning trip to the hospital. Or ask Apolo Ohno,the rising U.S. skater who was disqualified in the second men’s 1,500 semifinal for im- peding another skater. “The amountofstrategy involved dependsonthe race,” Ohnosaid.“The 500 is pure speed,butin the1,500,it is more tactical. Right now,a lot of the athletes from the other countries are already peaking. In the U.S., we tend to build throughoutthe year.” In the men’s 1,500-meter finals, won by South Korea’s Kim Dong-Sun, the top three skaters went outfast, hoping to put somespace between themselves and the pack. Whenthat didn’t work, they dropped back, as if in unison, then pushed the pacewith a few laps to go. Despite the danger and the intrigue, the crowd was sparse Friday. Skaters, family and team officials easily outnumbered Utahns. There were roughly 500 spectators. “Tt would be nice to have a huge crowd and alittle more people cheer ing for you,” said Mike Kooreman, a US. short-track skater.“Actually, the difference,in a different country,is the crowdnoise makesit easier to tell when the other country is passing.” Athletes from South Korea, Japan and China dominate the sport and took home one of six medals awarded Fri- day. Despite that dominance, U.S. short-track skaters are beginning to emerge and the 2002 Games are more than twoyears away. “We had some problems, like Apolo's disqualification,” said Eric Flaim, the program director for short-track speed skating. “But that’s something that Apolo canlearn from and do better next time. The organization is pretty strong,and we had a pretty good showing, especially in the relays.” “Really, we've been doing lot better,” Kooreman said. “In China,this is their nationalsport, like baseball here, so they have a lot more athletes to Us VagayeeNc) choose from. The biggest difference is the financial backing.” Although the Delta Center will be the venue for short track in 2002, organizers are hoping to learn from their experience at the Peaks Ice Arena. Pathmax sprue Tires (P3575, White Spoke Wheels Skaters Share Name, Athletic Ability @ Continued from B-1 wereforced to devise a wayto differate the twoonstart lists and scoreds, Althoughthe Yang Yangswrite heir names with different Chinese characters, the names are pronounced thesame. WORLD CUP SHORT-TRACK SPEED SKATING Second Heat,1. Korea, 20590, 2 Canada, 421782. 8 Friday's Results Ital Women’s 1300 Meters Yang Yang (A), China, 258676. Yang Yang (S) 420567. 4.Japan, 49096 China, 258700, 8 's 1800Meter Quarterfinals CChot Min Kyung, Korea, 2801 varsHea China Toe Japan, 72851. 3 san Meters Germany Dong Sung, Korea, 2:22.96. 2. Satory Term, Ja Tas Second Heat, 1. Korea, 70.86, 2 Unie States, ‘Women’s 1590-Meter Relay Semifinals 2 Canada, 7106. 3 FaoHea| ler, (2877 China, 2754.3 ‘Unie Sta {SUNK Nederlands, 498275. designation to (A). Sothe elder, now 23, waslisted as On Friday, Yang Yang (A) passed Canadian Tania Vincent on the outside to take the lead on theninth lapof the 13%lap final. Yang Yang(A), world recordholder in the 1,000 meters, then |.) decided to switch from the “large” seconds, Yang Yang(S), trailing Choi with less than three laps to go, slipped past Yang Yang(L), for “large,” the younger, by 13 months, as Yang Yang(S),for small.” Not surprisingly, Yang Yang held on to win in 2 minutes, 38.676 (157) bp cvenccccvcscceoe Rusty Smith of Sunset Beach, Calif., managed thebest U.S. men’s result. He eeamiael placed 17th. 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