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Show Snow is scarce in Europe as World Cup opens 1984 tournee at Garmisch-Par-tenkirchen, West Germany. Again jumps were on the 90-meter 90-meter hill, and it was a good day for Jeff Hastings. He took fourth place in the 99-jumper 99-jumper field. The top three were Wiesflog of East Germany, Ger-many, Hansjorg Sumi of Switzerland, and Ostwald of East Germany. Wiesflog set a new hill record on his second jump of 108 meters. After two of the four events, Hastings is holding onto his second place position in the World Cup standings with 69 points. Finland's Matti Nykaenen is still the leader with 83 points. Going into the final event of the week, a nordic combined com-bined in Oberwiessenthal, East Germany, American Kerry Lynch was tied with East Germany's Uwe Dot-zauer Dot-zauer for the World Cup combined lead. But after Oberwiessenthal Dotzauer was alone in the top spot, while Lynch dropped to fourth overall. Lynch was in 31st after the 70-meter jumping on Dec. 29, but took fourth in the following day's cross country coun-try segment to land 22nd overall. His was the top American finish. The winner was East German Andreas Langer, who was fifth in the jumping and first in the cross country. coun-try. Soviet Alexander Proswirnin was second overall, while Dotzauer took third. The alpine teams are scheduled to start the new year Jan. 6, snow permitting. With the alpine teams taking a break for the holidays, and hoping for snow in the mostly brown Alps, the nordic World Cup competitors gladly jumped and kicked into the spotlight. There have been three events during the past week the United States National Cross Country Championships, the Intersport Springertournee, and a nordic combined event. In Lake Placid, the talk is about the U.S. National and Olympic tryouts. The team to represent the U.S. at Sarejevo, Yugoslavia will be chosen after the conclusion of the races on Jan. 8. The first events were held Dec. 29 the cross country relays. There it was two Alaskan teams which skated their way to victory. The men's team was made up of John Svenson, Audun En-destad, En-destad, and Dave Michael, while the top women's crew was Alice Tower, Jay Jay Peot, andSueStrutz. Friday the Olympic trails continued with a men's 30 kilometer (k) and a women's 10K race. For the men it was Jim Galanes in first with a time of 1:19:26.8, while Dan Simoneau took second and Audun Endestad third. For the women Sue Long pushed to the top slot in 30:07.7, beating Lynn Galenes by 41 seconds. 1 Patty Ross took third. , ,. ,VT . . Jan. 2 held the first trials of the new year, a 15K for the men and a 5K for the women. On the men's side Galanes and Simoneau switched places, with Simoneau taking the top spot. Todd Boonstra was third. Sue Long again won the women's competition. Patty Ross took second and Judy Rabinowitz nabbed third. The Olympic trials continue con-tinue today, with the Olympic Olym-pic team being named on the eighth. The second important nordic nor-dic happening of the week was the four jump Intersport Springertournee held in four West and East German towns. Due to the lack of snow, trucks were hauling in the white stuff right up to the first jump. It was estimated that each of the four towns was spending over eight million marks apiece to cover the jumps and the runouts. The first leg was held Dec. 30 in Oberstdorf, West Germany Ger-many on the 90-meter hill with the neighboring East Germans grabbing the top two spots. Klaus Ostwald was top with jumps of 109 and 114 meters. Teammate Jens Wiesflog was second, and Norway's Ole Fidjestol third. The top American effort ef-fort was turned in by Jeff Hastings with a 14th-place finish. U.S. Coach Greg Wind-sperger Wind-sperger observed, "Jeff is obviously getting stronger, and he feels he can ski with the best." New Year's Day held the second event in the Springer- |
