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Show but without competitors from the U.S. downhillers, although the men were scheduled to leave for Val d'Isere Oct. 4. For the first time since 1979, the World Cup cross country season will open on this side of the Atlantic, Dec. 7-8 in Labrador City, Canada, and Dec. 14-15 in Giants Ridge, Minn. The last time around, the United States made the most of the opening of the season as Alison Owen-Spencer Owen-Spencer captured the 5-kilometer competition in Telemark, Wise. The U.S. ski jumpers will also be looking to get off to a fast start on the 1986 campaign as the World Cup jumping season opens Dec. 7-8 in Thunder Bay, Canada, and then moves south for the Subaru World Cup event in Lake Placid, N.Y. Americans have enjoyed good success suc-cess at both sites. John Broman won the 90-meter competition at Thunder : Bay in 1981 and Jeff Hastings won the same event at Lake Placid in , 1984. On the domestic scene, alpine NorAm action will highlight the schedule, with men's and women's technical events in Vermont and New Hampshire. The European Cup alpine season will also swing into action, ac-tion, with the majority of events in Scandinavia. Yugoslavia dominated the first World Cup slalom ski race of the season, capturing the top two spots in Sestriere, Italy, on Dec. 1. Rok Petrovic and Bojan Krizaj posted a one-two sweep, while home-country home-country favorite Ivano Edalini skied to a third-place finish. There were no U.S. men present for the race. Tiger Shaw and Felix McGrath will journey to Scandinavia Scan-dinavia for the initial European Cup technical events before joining the(i World Cup tour in mid-December fpf the races in Madonna di Campiglib. Italy, and Kranjska Gorajj' Yugoslavia. m ' Two other American men will join them for those events based on the results from the Eastern NorAm competition. Petrovic's 1:40.79 was 74-hundredths of a second better than Krizaj, while Edalini was nine-tenths nine-tenths of a second off the pace. The women's World Cup opener in Puy St. Vincent, France, scheduled for Dec. 8 was canceled and the next stop for the men at Val d'Isere, ' France, is still on tap, although temperatures are reportedly rising there. 5 vy Currently the U.S. women are hol-w hol-w "eel up in Austria, as are the men's |