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Show B6 Looking to Regain World GusTitle, | Maier Wins Season-Opening Slalom ready to produce anothergood time in the secondrun. T BY ERICA BULMAN his rightpole wasrippedoutof his handas hestrucka gate midwaydownthecourse. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TIGNES, France Hermann Maier ofAustria, seeking toregainthe overall World Cup title, wontheseason-opening Von Gruenigen continued to negotiate the remaining gates along the choppy course. He finished with the fifth: est runandretainedsecondplace. a ea a suberviper performaneetoday pertirmante OlasandI don'ty Lasse Kjus, the defending World Cup champion from, lermannmade giant slalom Sunday Norway,skiddedoff the coursein thefirst run, after losing his grip onthe rapidly deterioratingsurface. Maier, the 1998 World Cupwinner, raced down the sun nes glacier in a combined timeof 2 minutes, 22.33 seconds. It was his 19th World Cuptitle andsixthinthe giant slalom, “This was such a goodstart to the seas for me,” said soaked Maier, a double Olympic and world champion. “The first race is always important because you get to see where you stand with the other skiers. “You get to see if the others in good shape or not added Maier, one of four Austrians in the top six. “I see we Austrians are not so bad at this moment.” Switzerland's Michael Von Gruenigen, the defending World Cup giant slalom champion, survived a second-run. scare to finish second at 2:23.08. Second after the opening run, Von Gruenigen appeared think could have beate 2 ig mypole, Von Gruenigen But I might have hada better time withtwo poles Runner-upin the overall World Cupstandings last son, Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway wastimed in 2:24.23, tyingfor thirdwith Austria’s Stephan Eberharter, secondin the WorldCup giant slalomandsuper-G standings last year andfourth overall Aamodt, who has not wona ‘acesince1997,is anxious for a victorythis season “This year I started on thepodium so maybeI can wina id Aamodt, the 1994 World Cupoverall champion. “I n't won in so long, Maybe | needto take morerisks evenat the dangerof going out. It’s better than always being second, third or fourth Bode Miller of Franconia, N.H., finished19th in 2:26.72 Goebel Raises the Bar in Men’s Skating Americannails three quadruple jumps overshadowing Kwan’: season debut changed now.” Hasit ev If one quadis a tough BY BARRY WILNER THE ASSOCIATED PRE! s COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. With three quadruple jumps, Timothy Goebel carried men’s figure skating into a new er: wine that his performance came at Skate America, only the first major international event of the season Goebel, 19, was the first American quad toe loop in competition, at , at the ‘99 World skating. By hit ; quadsalchow-triple toeloop, a ting. {toeloop and a solo quad salchov. henot only set history and ¢ shadowedthe season debutthegauntlet ofMichelle Kwan. hethrew down to quads thanthe triples, only his second on 85 a senior. was “But even with that, it was still a big shock. also hit a quad salchow, the Yagudin, American champion Michael i andtherestof his competition. t's more impor Goebel, a part-time student at Case Western. U Junior Grand Prix final last fee raeretcoumtheesuntletto thing to master andit is just think what Yagudin, Weiss, Elvis Stojko. Evgeni Plushenko, Zhengxin Guo,Tia Klimkinandall those other jumping J ks will be doingin practicesessions Inpractice, I do pretty much clean programs most of the time, and 18-20 of themwere withall three quads, And not just to Goebel, who fin ished secondto the top-ranked Yagu: din. TheRussian, whohasasolid quad toe loop, shook his headindisbelief e 3oebel an incredulous look when he med about the three quads ne ay van Sou dla next tie said."“What's for you aa Whelitold|Cosbel's next interna. tional the NHK Trophy in Japan, agudin won't attend, Yagudin led andsaid, “Great. We will be Goebel still must improvehis artry to become a factor on the world stage. Heis workingonit, and it was the vastly improved at Skate America. He credited choreographer Lori Nich ol better in that aspect,” si id Goebel, whofinished 12th at the “And it helps to believe in what you're doing. If | make a mistake technically,it’s not that big a deal. It notlike it used to be, wheremyartistic marks were.2 or .3 lower. Still, it is the jumps the quad rote rticularly that has gotten Goebel “Maybe in a coupleye ars you'll be ableto say the quadis just triple jump,” hesaid "But T would neversayit is e¢ enues tiieioe ean a thoughshefellon tripleflip. But her Pennidue wa b, ; per! swith Nichol,OL, alsocom was ee eager to talk ROEENICH about what Goebel had achieved “I asked him earlier in the day, ‘I _hearyou're goingtotry three quads,’ ” Kwansaid. “Isthatpossible? What are youthinking” “ButI didn't want to p ‘he him out, so I said, ‘You go, Tim.’ To do it likethatis amazing.” Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tritny Korea’s Kim Dong-Sung,left, and China's Li JiaJun battle towardthefinish in the 1,000-meter final World’s Best Slapped With Disqualification BYBRIAN MAFFLY TH ALT L PRIBUNE PROVO Therulesof speed s ing were not kindto the world’s be: male short-track raceronthe final day of this weekend's World Cup short track meet. Referees disqualified China's Li JiaJun from two of the three final roundsSunday oncefor USS. skater 1,000mete lay whe tracked” an fone near the endof the 7-minuterace. Punishmentfora single violationis harsh,but the skaters must sometimes risk disqualification to get past an opponentin the tight packs that make short-trackracingsoexciting. “Someskaters take chance: referee Michel Verrault of Queb City, Canada,whoofficiated theWe Cupevent at the Peaks Ice Arena. “ isn’t badwhenthey impede.It's a theytake, Impeding occurs when a skater World Cup Laura Zeigle,flair Race to Course Records Speed Skating Comes to a Close En Route to Meet of ChampionsVictories BY BOB HUDSON CROSS COUNTRY SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE, RE! TS MURRAY— Bingham’s Law Boy . Golden Harper, Orem, rtAndrus gle and Orem's Golden Harper took 1Mtn. View 1 different routes to the championships SAYS. Matt 4A), 6, Dustin Bybee, Min. View, ofthe Park's SportsmanCross Country hyBran, Shanish Fork (AN Meet of ChampionsSaturday aya Mark Lott, Fremont Gan In the end, however, both had n La courserecords in their races overa ast 1520 294-mile layout at Cottonwood DavidShoo Complex FINAL TEAM SCORES Zeigle won thegirls’ race in 17 GAM AAAR SAL A108, LA, 119 UL minutes, 12 seconds, shing the old 1. Laura % ie Zeige. markof 17:36 which ‘ah Gardnerof Bingham.1 T(AAY.A, Kass ‘Christi Howell, Spanish East set threeye: sae. 6. Tifany Strickland, Min, View, 18.11 Hersister Jackie second in GAY 7. Shu Curtis, Min, Cres, 1183 Ay Held with Phebo Ko of East third at Houwhuis, mont 1.9 (4A), 8. TaraDunn, Spanish aly King Davi 188A) des 17:51. Koleda charge of 4-A runners as Fork, 1 4A). am,10- W832 (A): 12." Charity Catmull therepresentatives of that clast‘ficaHate, in Crest B40 (4AY, 15. Kath, tonwd teeat with 27points to Class 3-A was third with 97, RES 14 Ah 100 and A had124. “With Binghamrunninglike they have been, this was a pleasant sur prise,”said Art Hansenof Fremont, theraceat 10 a.m. with frost still onthe oneof the 4-A coaches, The meet was coursein manyplaces. conducted under ae uspices of the “I didn’t evennoticeit,” Zeiglesaid. Utah Track Coaches Association “It was a fun, fast course. I thought Zelgle and theother girls started we'd win, but I knew it would beclose,” aoa] CREMATIONS Start $6 1 0 shesaid ofthe team race. @ Continued from B-1 Harper, who ranthe coursein 15:00, two seconds faster than his own course Bulgarian Evgenia Radanova won the women’s 3,000 while Choi MinKyung of Korea wasthevictor in the Moca contingents of Chinese and Koreanexpatriates showed upto cheer ontheir powerful teams, Kim Woong, a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, led the Korean delegation. Pounding on a Korean “jing” and wearing a Korean flag clipped around his shoulders, Kim choreographed a rousing barrage of chants andcheers. ‘Yop American performer Apolo Anton Ohno was awarded a bronze medal in the men’s 1,000 afterLi's dis qualification. Ohnoalsoplaced fifth in the men 1,000. The inese women were credited record, didn’t take control until about 800 meters remained in therace. “L haven't run for a week,”hesaid. “I went on vacation to Washington, Ds I knewI wasgoingto be sore,” he continued, so I had to workinto it. 1”m gladit worked out. I'm really amazed {mytime] wasfaster than (mycourse m title with 21 i 3 3-A had 91 its, 2-A 109 and 1-A 119. Thecoachesinvited the top 10 finishers in each classificationfrom last vek’s state meet. When athletes from the smaller schools didn’t come, they filledin with 4-A and 5-A athletes who hadfinished 11th through20th. with therelayvictoryin four minutes, 11.189 seconds, morethanfive seconds faster than the world record set by the American to lose ‘akafu fetched & passin the s caused Ohnotoslip andlose Second place. Li, a 24-year-old skater in the 500 finals, but his nerves per haps caught up with him Sunday the 1,000 fina For Li's part, the Chinese skater compounded his violation as he crossed the finish, arms tanglingwit) the Korean winner, Kim Dong-Sung, from Changchun, China, was the world’s top ranked short-track speed skater last year andwonsilverat the Winter Olympicsin the 1,000. But a the 1994 Games, he says, nervousness led to violationsthat got him disqualified in early rounds of the 500 and 1,000. On Saturday, he cruisedtovictory f precious groung that he could never make upin thy closing laps, although he cameclose t Japan’s Satoru Terao. 1 caught up & iut faster than | thought I could,” Ohno said, tried pass Terao, but he wouldhaveshut the door and { would havebeen disquali fied too. I didn’t want to takethat ¢ ce. whois ontrack to dethrone Li as the world’s topshort tracker. The referve pale out a yellow card, warningLi wravated voatons wand get himsidelined for the Badluck followedLi into the 50) ie finals. Inthe batileforthesilver hineseskater crossed the course in on illegaleffort to prevent a Japanese opponentfrom passing, Verrault said S view such a violation, jockeying hardfor position through calledcross tracking, as a cheap move. out thefirst halfof the nine-ap race. About midway, Li cut across Ohno's something worse than an honest imis- South Koreaat the 1998 Nagano Win ter Olympics. Canada and Bulgaria hed underthe world mar “Xin, the Chinese coach, said he wasn’t surprisedat the qi cebe his skaters recently have had fast. But he had no argument sion. “It's uptothereferees,” Xinsaid, “1 but therecord has to be andrejected therecord. of the rink} the blocks accurate.” After the race, coaches watching from the stands ce officials that one of the two sets of seven lane markers used to demarcate the corners of the racing oval appeared to have been set in too closely. These moveable blocks are the only mark- ings onthe course. Setting the blocks tooclosely would result in the compet ingona smaller oval and covering less than the regulation 3,000. The referees confirmed the error take, like impeding, “Atone end were on the right track,” said referee Michel Ver rault. “On the other end, they weren't.” Sucherrors, the responsibility of the on-icereferees, happen on occa sion, said Verrauit. “Forus, it’s not a big, big surprise,” he said.“I’ve been officiating for 20 years andI've seenit happen more than once, “It doesn’t interfere with the re- sults, but we can't honestly give a world record.” ‘The yellow card awarded to Li was a rarer occurrence, although referees have the authority to hand out a yel low card forany seriousoffense. After impeding Ohnoearlier in the race, Li interfered with Dong-Sungatthefin ish line and was cited for unsports manlike conduct. “Hefinished [the race] pushing and punchingtheother ter,” said Verrault. BET FOOTBALL NOW! 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