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Show Today at the Games CURLING Canada vs. Fintand Women's Tiebreakers £ Center, 11 am-1:30 p.m. Sweden vs. Great Brtain, 9 a.m G vs. winner of SPEEDSKATING Chine vs. Kazakstan Men's 1,500m United States vs. Sweden The Peaks ioe Arena, 2-4:30 .m an Olympe: Oval cre ee The Peaks ioe Arena, 7-9:30 p.m. FIGURE SKATING p dean Racine, fight, and new Men s sprint oo fier Holiow, 9:30 ee Sweden-Great Bram, 2 p (Ogden foe Sheet — Gates open at 5:30 p.m Medals at 8. Creed at 9 Freestyle skiing: men's seriais Women's sprint quticatensinds idier Hollow, 9 2. —. Tuesday, February 19, 2002 MEDALS PLAZA Russia vs. Germany CROSS COUNTRY SKIING TheSaltLakeTribune WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY 2.m.-220 p.m FREESTYLE SKIING BOBSLED — See story, Page 0-7 eaten FIGURE SKATING — WOMEN’S SHORT at Speedskating: men’s 1.500m Delta Center, 5:15-9:12 p.m. Ddrakewoman Gee Joheison take to the track today at the Utah Oh Park, Men's aerials finals Valley Resort, noon Cross country skiing: women's 1.5K sprint free Cross country siing: men’s 1.5K sprint free oo Women's short program — ceni—d 2002 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES Women's heats 1 and 2 Patk, 4304630 ps ne M: Today, 5;15 p.m., Delta Center Technique Vs. Artistry Critics say womenare putting too much emphasis on jumps BY KATHY STEPHENSON cult triple Salchow/triple loop/double toe-loop combination,at the 2001 world championships in ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE March. She is expected to haveit in her Olympic nay be a charm elsewhere, but triple iple is the golden number onthe icein Salt se City this week ling back-to-backthree-revolutionjumps triple-triple combination is an absolute to nd up in the medals at t fi Kw an's American teammate, Sarah Hughes, also is thinking in triplicate. The 16-year-old from Great Neck, N.Y., added a second triple-triple com: bination to her free skate program after placing third behind Kwan and Cohenatlast month’s U.S. championshipsin Los Angeles. “J really wanted to add a secondtriple-triple be- Unlike the men's competition, v druple jump separates the best a re the qua. p rest. there ne the women’s miltor the 1984 gold medalist the r nited States dropp y now, to be the first womanto land a quadruple impin competition That said are striving to add more tri amps to their pr ms do up te seven as well as more complicated jump combi nations Some don’t skating. F at the sport Michelle Kwan. quipped recently ed “fi the fo hould be renamed ing” cus on acrobatic: the 19205 as Sonja Henie was the first woman to land a single axel before womenreached another achieved by MidoriIto of Ja 1, who at the 198] world junior ‘fully completedthe fir ymbination by a woman, landing championships iple-triple jump atriple toe-loop. triple toe-loop ¢ he world champions strongestfield of women skaters in history. Hughessaid she has been working on a tripleSalchow/triple loop and a triple-toe/triple loop leading up to the Games. “I woulda’t be comfortableif J thought I wasn’t taking contro] over my own program,”she said. Cohen has decided along with her coach John Nicksto stay with a triple-toe/double loop combi- nation, which she lands consistently. “We weretraining it [the quad] after nationals and I could do a small percentage, but more recently Mr. Nicks and J decided that we really want to with a program I’m more comfortable with,” said Cohen, 17, of Laguna Nigel, Calif. But while the number and di y of jumps landed cangive a skater a boost in technical marks, it will take more than a good jumpor seven to win a gold medal. Judges are looking for the entire skating package grace, artistry, sophistication, emotion. “It will come down to the quality of the perfor- mance and who skates the best,” Hamilton said. That is why Slutskaya, who maybe the most athletic of the top four women, haspaid extra attention to herartisticskills, working with a ballet instructor and 2 new choreographer. “I worked so hard on the artistic mark,” to land a triple axel in s Kwan pics, the t igning world champion, who hai ation jumpin the past ve Utah witha covetes al shoe know cause I can doit,” said Hughes, who knows she needs something extra to set her apart in oneofthe she has to go for it riple Slutskayasaid after herfirst practice session on the Delta Center ice Sunday. Slutskaye noted she got higher technical marks than Kwan did at the world championships, but lower presentation marks. Artistic marks pushed Kwan upto the top of the podium to capture her fourth world title So while beauty onice has made Kwanthe icon of the sport, Slutskaya has the technical edge, with power and difficult ju:nps like her triple: double. new toe/triple+t n if she exy doesn't possess “the beauty, softness in ice that Kwan or even Hughes and Slutskaya was the first woman to land thediffi said Hamilton. “But her difficult com: binations is how she stays competitive.” | | Lionel Cironneua/The Associated Prew US.skaters Michelle Kwan, left, and Sarah Hughes practice Saturday for the women's short program. Skating-routine demands are shifting from artistic to more technical moves The Triple-Triple-Beuble Combination: The Jumps That Could Define a Champion Triple Loop Triple Saichow SPEEDSKATING — MEN'S 1,500m: Today, | p.m Utah Olympic Oval Peaking Parra Is Strong Favorite to Win Gold for America BY JANET RAE BROOKS ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Derek Parra wz favorite in the fore he stunned himvelf already a medal 0) meters beand the skat ing world by snatching # silver medal in the opening race of the Winter Ohympics. ‘Theformer in-line skater from San Bernadino, Calif., was such a longshot in the 5,000that his wife hadn't yet ar rived from Orlando to cheer him on But Tiffany Parra will be on hand for the1,600. Parra took almost 15sec onds off his personal-best time in the 6,000, setting @ short-lived world record of 6 minutes, 17.19 seconds be fore Dutch skater Jochem Uyidehaage co enSE in 694.06. Parra, 31, can duplicate his over ac cneoue in the 1,800. he should be ‘ standing on the victory podium by af ternoon's end. No American man has won # medal at the distance since Eric Fiaimtook silver at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. “He's skating better than I've ever seenhim skatein his life,” said Parra’s coach, Bart Schouten. “If somebody beats him, that's OK. That personis going to be better. But 1 don't think Derek can be any better right now.” Canada’s Dustin Molicki and id medalist Adne Sondra) we among the men who could beat Parra Molick! holds # narrow lead over the American in Word Oup standings for the distance. Despite injuries to both shoulders, Sondra competed in Saturday's 1,000,placing 11th. Although Uytdehaage had to earn his spot in the race through a special Dutch skate-off race in January, he PODIUM PICKS has said he wants to replicate Johann 2. Dustin Molicki, Canade Olav Koss's triple guid medal feat at the Lillehammer Olympics, where the Norwegian star won the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 Dytdehaage’s Dutch teammates ids Postme and Rintje Ritsma took silver and bronze in Nagan. But Postma, who weighs 200 pounds, has struggled in the Ovals warmer air. He finished 27th in the 500and 17th in the 1,000. In Nagano, Ritama also won silver in the 5,000 and brome in the 10,000, but only qualified here for the 1,500. Parra’s teammates Joey Cheek and Nick Pearson also will be in the hunt for —ety came within 0.02 Parra’s American record at tnofibpapictrie apaaenter tee CLARIFICATIONS 1. Derok Para, San Bemadino, Calf 3 Adne Sondral, Norway in which U5. speedskater Chris Witty oad Derek Pare won tus finst memational speeskabig medal — sitver m the men's 1,590 meters For the record, Sabine Voelker of Germany won the silver meds ~ at he word single-dtance championshigs a! the Utah Otymprc Oval tat Maron. Thre wore ecodintocentis (62 — the QUICK RISE in a time of 1 minute, 13% Witty and her teammate Jenn) had pre-qualified and didn't compete in the event fer Rodriguez, who won the bronze medal, are coached by Tom Oust man. Svetlana of Reuse. 4P. Shilling, another Park City resi dent. enters the race with the season's ‘12thfastest time. was 14th in 1:16.08. Becky strom af Glen Ellyn, Ml. finished 6th in 1:25.88. Pearyon will be aiming to catch up to his Park City } skated against Germany's Mo the |