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Show Bine J 15th STRAIGHT:Halladay picks up arnother win as Blue J Orioles. D6 She Halt Lake Tribune Inside High School Rodeo 83 Scoreboard D4 , MONDAY Stingers D4 Classifieds O7 Sexy 28, 2¢ WwW SLTRIBCOM Tour DE FRANCE Not stopping.at at 5 Armstrongplans to return and compete again next year _ Armstrong officially wonhis consecutive Tour. Indurainis = only other cyclist with that Streaks in Other Sports = Tue AssociaTEeD Press PARIS — Lance Armstrong's fel: low members of the Five Victory Club wonder whether No. 6 will come. Who could blame them for hop- Laununer Rumours; The Associated Press Lance Armstrong celebrateshis fifth straight Tour de France victory after Sunday’sfinal stage, which was mainly ceremonial. ing he doesn’t erase their names from the Tour de France’s record booknext year? Miguel Indurain sipped a coffee near the start of Sunday’s final stage, a mainly ceremonial ride in How Lance Armstrong'sfive straight Tour de France victories,tying Miguel Indurain's record, match. up.with championship streaks in various sports (number of consecutivetitles, team, years): NBA — 8,Boston Celtics, 1959-66 many victoriesin a row Can Armstrong make it six straight? “Of course, it’s possible,” said Indurain, a Spaniard. “But every Major League Baseball — 5, New York Yankees, 1949-53 NHL — 5, Montreal Canadiens, 1956-60 Super Bowl— 2, done seven times, most recently: Denver Broncos, 1998-99 NCAA Men's Basketball —7, UCLA, 1967-73 NCAA Women’s Basketball — 3, Tennessee, 1996-98 Wimbledon Men — 6, Willie Renshaw, 1881-86 Wimbledon Women — 6, Martina Navratilova, 1982-87 yearit gets moredifficult, and he'll face some tough rivals.” Indeed, Armstrong triumphed this year by his slimmest margin See TOUR, D5 OLymPics Organizers missed out on history Hindsight: Women’s hockeyfinal was to be played outsideforthe Ist timein almost 50 years ea are Rag BRooxs Lake Tribune it was the Rose Bowl for women’s soc cer. It could have been Rice-E s Stadium for women’s hockey Organizersoflast year’s Winter Olympics were planning to stage the women’s hockeyfinal almostcertainly a showdown between Canada and the United States — underthe stars at RiceEccles before a football game-size crowd of about55,000. It would have been thefirst outdoor Olympic hockey match in almosthalfa century, and the largest hockey crowd ever as sembled at the Games. It could have pushed women’s hockey into the nation’s consciousness in the same way that a sell-out Rose Bow! crowdof 90,185 for the 1999 women’s World Cup final thrust women’s specer into the mainstream. ~ Ae “Afterward, we were little disappointed that we didn’t take the risk,” said Rene Fasel, presi: dent of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The opémair contest was former bid leader ve Johnson's idea. Rice-Eccles was beingfitted with ice and lighting for opening and closing ceremonies anyway. A hockey game Puoros wy Fraxcisco Kons 1i4/The Salt Lake Tribune Dan Shwam, center, manages the Highland High baseball team during the school year, and the independent Jackson (Miss.) Senators in the summer. Redemption on King of second chances: Between high school education and an independentbaseball team, Dan Shwamgives people the tools to succeed By Kurt Kracruorre The Salt Lake Tribune certain to become one ofthe Salt Lake Olympics’signature events could have been squeezed inat ACKSON, Miss. They comefromdiverse back grounds,toa place they never imagined being stuck. Theydid notfit into the system, whether by little cost. ‘The extra tickets would have been sold cheaply to locals. “You would have beenable togettick: ets to see a gold-medal hockey game for 10 or 20 bucks,” said Johnson. Johnson first asked hockey chiefFaselif he had the stomach to stage an outdoor game. “Sure,” Fasel replied. “No problem.” Faselalso ran theidea past the U.S. and Canadian hockey federations. They both backed It. Johnson then sought out weather data for the proposed their own fault or at least in their minds someoneelse's. They want to succeed, yet theyare held back by their environments and strugglein a competi. tive world that requires special abilities. ‘The baseball players of the Jackson Senators andthestu: dents in Highland High’s alternative education program will probably never meet, but they are lot alike. Dan Shwamis their commonbond. He spends nine months working with the Highland studentsin a special ized,off-campus program, then leaves home to manage an independent-leaguepro baseball team in the summers. It is arewarding, draining combination, a year-round quest to help kids and baliplayers make it back into the main stream. There's more at stakein Salt LakeCity and the success rateis higher, too. About half of Shwam’s st sses and move into Highland’s regular Only afew of his independent playerssign with major leagueorganizations, but Shwam can say he gave them an other shot. Andthey usually winfor him. TheSenators reached the final gameof the Central Baseball League's championship series last September and wonthe Eastern Division’s first half title this season. Jackson stood 45-25 overall entering Sunday’s game, eve r a summer of constantly losing players fora variety of reasons: injuries, retirement, full timejob offers andsigning with an organization Having formerly coachedfor the Salt Lake Trappers, whose 29-game winning streak in 1987 became the ultimate exampleofindependent baseball's allure, Shwamloves working with players who knowthis is their last chance. “All kinds of different personalities reasonsfor being here,” all with different he said, sitting in the worn love seat in his officeafter a recent Senators victory. out of here.” DAN SHWAM SWIMMIN Phelps bests 5th worldrecord Hethen started preliminary talks with Games’ host broad: caster NBC. “Unfortunately,” said Johnson, “I resigned (from the organizing committee] three weekslater,” A record for records: The idea didn’t die with Johnson's departure, but even The 18-year-old now has topped Spitz once, and is hoping for a second time tually Olympic organizers and international hockey officials decidedto hold the women’s final closer to the Games’ end, which removed the weather window Tue Associarnn Pras required for an outdoor match And the weather outside | ' said Johnson. And no wind one of them, they (ind.) Otters of the Frontier League, with mostly younger See SHWAM, Le 90 percent,”he said. women’s final at the E Center? “It was absolutely spectacular,” ever don't go anywhere. They need eachotherto get for them tofigureout that with it every ne of them, they don’t go anywhere. They need each other to get out of here Shwamspent the 2001 season managing the Evansville three-day window of opportunity for the game. Hegot a green light there, too. “Theodds of us hold ing the event in three days were while Canada wasinside beating the United States in last year’s “The key | “Thekey isfor them to Sigureout that without Avnet DALAL The Aamataind Pre American Michael Pheips proudly dispiays the four gold and two silver medals he earned at this year’s World Swimeniny Championships. / BARCELONA, Spain Michael Phelps has Mark Spitz in his sights. The leyearold American claimed one of Spitx’s records Sunday on the Znal day of the World Swimming Champion ships when he broke his fifth individual world mark for the 400-meter individual medley if rything goes as well as us | hope to, then 1 want It to, maybe I could be going Mark Spitz’s accompl ih ments,” said Phelps, who fin ished Sunday in 4 minutes, 9.09 seconds onds faster a stunning 1.64 sec than he swam in April for the old record Spitz managed four ) recort: individual event y" the Olympics 31 years ago as he won his medals. wendary seven gold Phelps was the centerpiece of one of the fastest meets in tory, 13 world marks were broken and one was tied, He also upstaged his American teamma who led with 11 golds in the pool and 28 overall their best performance since the Olympics three years ago. Rival Australia had only six goldsand 22 overall. ‘er SWIM, Dt ) |