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Show Fastest Start 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 Cup racing that an 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 Europe Eur-ope was Cary Adgate, Boyne City, Mich. He won a FIS-sanctioned FIS-sanctioned giant slalom race at Oberstdorf, West Germany, Ger-many, December 14. Bruce was fifth in the race. DENVER- The United States Alpine Team Is off to its fastest start in recent World Cup history with strong finishes by five different competitors in Italian meets. Cindy Nelson Nel-son earned a second place in a World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, while Greg Jones placed second in a giant slalom and Geoff Bruce was fourth in a slalom race at Madonna diCampig-lio diCampig-lio to lead the impressive American onslaught in European Eur-opean racing. Nelson, Lutsen, Minn., finished second by just .5 seconds to Austria's Anne-marie Anne-marie Moser-Proell In the December 12 downhill. The finish places Cindy second in the current World Cup downhill standings, ahead of Proell, and in a tie for fifth overall. Nelson's new teammate, team-mate, Kim Mumford, Putney Vt., placed seventeenth 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 Camp-iglio, Camp-iglio, Bruce of Corning, N. Y. led after the first run of the December 17 slalom. "I skied the second run to finish," fin-ish," he explained after winding up in fourth place. It would have been nice to win, but the fourth earned me first-seed slalom points beginning in January and that is almost more important. In fact, it's the best Christmas Christ-mas present I could ever have," Andy Mill of Aspen, Colo., is also moving up in the seeding lists. He started start-ed seventieth in the slalom and placed an amazing eleventh. elev-enth. Jones, from Tahoe City, Calif., placed second in the December 18 giant slalom to earn his first World Cup points ever. Only 1974 World Cup winner Piero Gros of |