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Show THE COALITION CITY Page 5 PARK n ms? m mm TEAM, ms STREAK. Europe, Yeager said, after winning two races in the U.S. VICTORIOUS Bill Koch has started in Besides, the momentum that Koch and Martha have four races this season in Europe and has won all of them, including a junior event in Salen, Sweden, December 15th. His cohort on the U.S. Cross-CountTeam, Martha Rockwell, won the women's 7.5km race to bring the American win total up to six in 11 starts. The field at Salen was the toughest we've faced so far," reported head U.S. coach Marty Hall. Koch won his junior race by over a minute, nonetheless, and he would have placed about fourth, according to his time, in the senior men's 18km event." Hall was disappointed to report that Sweden's Thomas Wassberg, who was expected to give Koch, 19( Guilford, Vt.) a challenge at Salen, did not enter the race. 30, (West Rockwell, Lebanon, N.H.) faced her most difficult test of the young season, but came out on top by two seconds over Eva Ohlsson, a Swedish Olympic veteran. Third and fifth in the race were Canada's Firth twins, Shirley and Sharon. In fourth, 26 seconds off Rockwell's pace, was Sweden's Meeri Bodelid, who had defeated Rockwell in Orsa, Sweden, going has got to be infectious. The six American crosscountry skiers will enter five highly competitive European meets before returning hone January 10th for the U.S. ry December December LEAVENWORTH The Leavenworth International Jumping Tournament has been rescheduled on January 6 th at the races December 27th and 28th at Fischer and Hindelang, a January meet th at Neukirk, West Germany, and a January meet in Castelrotto, Italy. DEVECKA IN EUROPE FOR NORDIC COMBINED COMPETITION Mike Devecka will he the U.S. representative in four major international nordic combined meets, it has been announced by U.S. nordic combined coach Peter Robes. different competitors in Italian meets. Cindy Nelson earned a second place in a World Cup downhill at Cortina dAmpezzo, while Greg Jones placed second in a giant slalom, and Geoff Bruce was fourth in a slalom race at Madonna di to lead the impressive American onslaught in European racing. days of training with the West German team prior to the first competition of the season at Nesselwang, West Germany, December We want to give Mike every opportunity to compete in major meets this season so he will be prepared for the December 17th for 8th. j 10 Cam-pigli- o, Olympics next winter, Robes stated. Devecka, Ill (Bend, Ore.) has the best combined record in recent U.S. ski history, Robes noted, and his training indicates that he will be adding more top results to his record. After Nesselwang, the 1968 and 1970 Olympian will travel to Schonach, West Germany, for a meet Other meets January on his schedule are at Le i Bill Koch I couldn't be happier with Brassus, how well Martha is skiing, January Hall commented. Placing first against such a tough field is tremendous. She and Koch are really rolling now and are anxious to prepare for the big races after From Salen, Christmas. Hall, Koch, Rockwell, and Larry Martin, The Park City Ski School is in the midst of a program designed to enhance ski technique and to teach instruction methods. The program not only sharpens skiing skills, but also provides a source of Park City Ski School in- im Winkl, January 24, (Homer, funding and his teammates would bolster the success of the trio that has been in Europe since late October. I'm confident that I'll do better than ever in teammates TNK TVN Of finished second by seconds o, for the first TM NATIONAL HOBT M A Ober-stdor- Instructs Clinic Participants Avalanche Prevention Backfires f. Germany, ' A 75mm shell which was fired . as . an , a jralanche d preventative took ' an flight trajectory and sailed through a building at the top of Altas Wildcat Lift on Saturday, December 14th. The shell did not explode as unex-perte- it passed through the aluminum walls on two sides of the counterweight building, and it detonated approximately a half-mil- e away on the Sunspot run. Austrias Miscalculation The U.S. men also competed in a World Cup downhill at Gora, Kranjska error in the elevation setting of the artillery piece caused the accident. A U.S. Forest Service crew fired the shell from the west side (rf Peruvian Ridge at Snowbird. The crew was tired and said Chanmiscalculated" dler P. St. John, supervisor of the Wasatch National Forest. A Geoff Bruce Yugoslavia, December 20th, and the women had a parallel race and a World Cup downhill at Saalbach, Austria, December before the team returned to the U.S. for Christmas. st 100mm One of the Few Mr.StJohn noted that the . A NATIONALLY HeS.veri Introduced - vr. - to Robin Locke an d( J IMOWf . ll domestic meet of the season at Lake Placid, N.Y., PUOUCITV Jones (Tahoe City, Calif.) second in the December 18th giant slalom to earn his first World Cup points ever. Only 1974 World Cup winnter Piero Gros of Italy was ahead of him in the results, and behind him was world champion Gustavo Thoeni, among others. Jones placing was only the fourth time in nine years of World when an Cup racing American man had finished as well in the discipline. He is currently tied for seventh in the overall World Cup rankings. Rounding out the recent U.S. success during the first two weeks of racing in was Cary Europe Adgate( Boyne City, Mich.). placed Minn.) just .5 in Annemarie Moser-Proethe December 12th downhill. The finish places Cindy second in the current World Cup downhill standings, ahead of Proell, and in a tie for fifth overall. Nelsons new teammate, Kim Mum-forPutney, Vt.) placed 17th in the event despite a poor start position for her second top 20 finish in her first season of World Cup competition. In the men's World Cup meet at Madonna di Cam-pigliBruce (Corning, N.Y.) led after the first run of the December 17th slalom. I skied the seond run to finish, he explained after winding up in fourth place. It would have been nice to win, but the fourth earned me first-see- d ad- Greg Jones Cindy Nelson the NEWS ARTICLES THAT CONTINUE TO PUBLICIZE program to allow personal technique vancement for each member of the class. M programs we had planned." The six members of the U.S. Nordic Combined Team recently completed a successful training camp with the jumping team at Banff, Alta. The camp was impeded only by the injury to Bruce 24,(Durango, Cunningham, Colo.) who suffered a slight separation of his shoulder during a fall in jump training. He is expected to join his and Twila Vt.); Hinkle, 20, (Frisco, Colo.). Yeager felt certain that he Ample free skiing is also incorporated into the V Nelson(Lutsen, el experts. December 14th. , Bruce, was fifth in the race. h. difficulty non-parall- West U.S. nordic program director Jim Balfanz commented, We had hoped to be able to send other members of the nordic combined team to Europe for the necessary experience, but because of the financial problems facing the U.S. Ski Team this season, we are having some Alas.) traveled to Seefeld, Austria, for training on the courses which will be used in the 1976 Olympics. The next scheduled competition will be 26th December at Nesselwang, West Germany. Joining the three U.S. competitors in Austria on December 18th were three other top Americans, Ron Yeager, 22, (Durango, Colo.); Tim Caldwell, 20, (Putney, dling. The teaching methods are primarily geared toward the lower phases of skiing, and those parskiers as well as ticipating include He won and at Reit West Germany, ek structors. Those persons who attain the skiing proficiency and teaching capability necessary are chosen to become part of the ski school if they so desire. Participants are taught basic technique, error placed an recognition, teaching methods, and class han- giant slalom race at Switzerland, ll-12- th amazing 11th. JONES. NELSON, BRUCE PLACE 2nd, 2nd A 4th The United States Alpine Team is off to its fastest start in recent World Cup history with strong finishes by five Devecka left for Europe and slalom 25-2- hill in Leavenworth, Wash. The meet, annually me of the best contests of the season, had originally been scheduled for February but the date conflicted with the Canadian National Jumping Championships at Thunder Bay, Ont. Officials of the Leavenworth tournament agreed to change the dates of their meet in order to ensure that both meets will be attended by the top jumpers in North America. schedule includes two West night INTER- JUMPING RESCHEDULED National Championships. After Nesselwang, the German slalom points beginning in January and that is almost more important. In fact, it's the best Christmas present I could ever have. Andy MilKAspen, Colo.) is also moving up in the seeding lists. He started 70th in the 1st. 29th-Janua- NATIONAL 27, -- Clinic In Progress six-we- WIN' EXTENDS ROCKWELL KOCIi Ski School Ski Team Report SKI Wednesday, December 25, 1974 ftHliiNMisfniU PMOLACO MATO incident was one of the few accidents which have occurred in the course of 24 years of artillery firing for avalanche control. He said the target area was obscured by clouds and snow and that a blind preset firing" was employed. The shot was one 0 which are used of each season to force small 3,000-4,00- snowslides and prevent major avalanches. Mr.St.John stated that will be blind firings discontinued and that triplecheck training" would be instituted for settings to preclude a similar incident. heat Most fireplace escape up chimeny THE RANK CITY GHDN umT PARK SKYLINE GARAGE Mountain Village Coffee Shop 3ioom96 giftsJtJofMAINdistinction SMriT Eight Escape Injury From Snowslide One person was buried and seven partially others escaped a snowslide at the Snowbird resort on Thursday December 19th. Digs Out The slide occurred at approximately 2:30 PM while eight skiers were on the S.T.H. run which had been closed due to hazardous snowbird pharmacy officefree drugs sundries US post For more Information call 649 - 9124 open daily local delivery Utah conditions. A wall of snow described as being 50 to 75 feet wide and 200 feet long broke loose and trapped Scott FI usher, a from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Mr. Flusher managed to dig himself out of the snow and sustained no injuries. Todd Carried Boynton of Min- neapolis, Minnesota, was carried 30 yards by the slide, but he, too, was uninjured. Mr. Boynton was spending his last day in the intermountain area. The other six people who were skiing in the closed area were all accounted for. Search Before it was ascertained that all persons in the area were safe, Snowbird sent out 60 persons who made two probes in the vicinity of the slide. Danger Snowbird official Randy Montgomery noted that snow conditions all along the Wasatch Front are "extremely unstable." He said the lack of snow early in the cason and the heavy snow in recent days are the cause of the hazardous conditions. |