European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 11. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 35 bad Luck still haunting . Ski teams Val d there. France a five week before the Slart of the Winter olympics in Cal pry the . Ski learns an still experiencing the misfortune that has plagued them All year. Injuries suspension and physical problems arc Tak ing their loll among the Alpine nordic and biathlon squads. However Harald Schoenhaar the Alpine program director in t letting it get him or tic ski team Down. Yes we have same problems in the Short term for this Winter and this month Schonhaar said. But hopefully some of our skiers ire coming  the Alpine team currently in Europe raised its injury count to six after Doii Lewis and Mike Brown went Down with broken Bones practising for the men s downhill ran heir. Brown broke a wrist and Lewis fractured a Collarbone in practice runs prior to the race. We be been hit with an Odd situation having a series of injuries like this Schoenhaar said after sat urday s world cup race. You have to get used o it i Don t want to but you re forced to. You gel to a Point when you Hope it won t go any  the two men Art added to the women s injury list which put four of the lop five american women on the sidelines. With the women there was a syndrome of Shock sadness and disappointment and it did t help their  Schoenhaar said Tamara Mckinney the 1933 Overall world cup Champion broke a Lei in pie season training at capper Mountain colo., in november. Eva Twardo Kem suffered a knee injury in the first race of he season insist Rice tatty Debbie Armstrong the i9s4 olympic giant slalom Gold medallist recently resumed from a dislocated Fibula suffered during summer training and Tori Pilling or Bod a number of injuries when she crashed in leu Ket fad Switzerland Early in december. Armstrong came Back to Competition in tines France in two giant slalom. She was the Only Ameri can to make it to the second heal but Baa timing forced her to ski of tic course in both runs. Schonhaar is hoping More of the injured will return in time for Calgary. We Are hoping both of them make it Back he said. We Are counting on Tamara also. We Are actually staying with our philosophy of bringing 18 people o Calgary of they re skiing Well and up to expectations and our needs for Calgary we will have a total of in men and  pillar Igor is recovering from operations in California after being transported there by a special Swissair and . Military planes. She look a few Steps on Christmas Day just three weeks after he Accident which included a fractured femur broken Pelvis and am ligaments. She is hoping to be Back next year. On the men s Side Lewis and Brown were to Fly Home on saturday. Lewis who won the Bron medal m the downhill at the 1985 world championship crashed in practice Friday. Brown s by Ken wrist on wednesday was on his lat est injury. He Brake three Bones in the Back of his hand when he slammed in into the Snow during the super a of the world championships last february. The Alpine learn in t alone with problems. Nordic combined athlete Kerry Lynch Silver med Alist in the 1987 world championships recently was stripped of his second place after he was suspended because of  1 Sec some problems with the organization of doing something that was against the philosophy of the organization show Haar said. Raimond Dombrovskis a member of the . Biath Lon team May miss the Winter games because of a ruptured appendix Dombrovskis suffered it last sum Mer but inc injury was Only discovered last week whence saw a doctor in West Germany. Or Irwi High Speed on the rocks american Driver Malcolm Smith and the Stony algerian desert Ink during his belgian teammate Alain flew the Paris Dakar rally Smith and str i Clr Range Portr pro ova flew linked seventh Overall. 2nd Driver killed in rally agates niger a the Paris Dakar motor rally  is second fatality in two Days sunday when French co Driver Patrick Canada. 37, was lulled shortly after the Stan of the 11 the leg from aril to agacs the exact circumstances of the Accident that caused Canada s death about 14 Miles out of aril the Lith since the Competition was created were not known. Organizers said the Driver of the Range Rover vehicle Rene Boubet was slightly injured. The death followed by 24 hours an Accident that killed Kucs Van Lovec Zion of the Netherlands co Driver of a Daf truck and injured his team mates Driver Tea Van riot and me chanic Chr Ross the Daf learn Leader subsequently withdrew both trucks from the rally. The organizers also announced an other sinous injury from saturday s 10th leg from Djado to aril that had not been reported earlier. They said Frenchman Jean Marie Lignieres who remained All night in the desert with a medical team that considered his condition too serious to move him suffered a Back injury also injured saturday were italian motorcyclist Alessandro de Petri and French motorcyclist Raymond Lai beaux. Germany s Wasmeier skis to super a Victory Val d Sere. France a Mark us Wasmeier of West Germany who spent More than six weeks in a cast re covering from a serious Back injury last March won the first men s world cup super a ski race of ire season sunday. Wasmeier crashed at Fuiano Japan and damaged several vertebrae. Pkg missed summer training but came Back prepared for this Winter. Sunday he won his seventh world cup race and fifth super a of his career by Rushing Down it course of soft Snow in i minute 29.16 seconds. Frank Piccard of France was second in 1 29.46. Switzerland s Pirmin Zur big gun who won saturday s downhill Here was third in 1 29.62. Wasmeier 24. Was Content with the Victory although the conditions had changed in the 24 hours since he finished41st in Pic downhill. The Snow was t Loo Good was a Cir said. It was soft Ana was break ing. But when i have a Good race i always have same  a sup a specialist Wasmeier won the first to races of the 1986-1987 sea son before falling at Furano. He won inc 1985-1986 super a title. Starling in 14th position sunday he skied a smooth race and had no trouble taking the Victory on the 2,46s.mclcr course which dropped 620 meters and had 45 Gates. Piccard fourth in the downhill sat urday continued the Fine showing of the French ski team this Winter his previous Best in a super a came was a fourth in Vald Iscra Musal Zurbriggen s third place finish moved him to within five Point of inc Overall world cup Lead. He won the title in 1987 and 1984, Italy s Early season so Saigon Alberto Tomba took fifth sunday with 1 29.99 and upped his world cup total to 136 Points with Zurbriggen now til 131. Aus Tria s Guenther matter is a Distant third with 57 Points. Milder finished fourth ahead of Tomba in sunday s race with 1 29.67, austrians look three More places in the top 10. Leonard Slock the 1980 olympic downhill Champion was sixth in 1 30.35, Helmut Mayer seventh in 1 30,61 and Kaysenn Idle in 1 30.76. Luxembourg s Marc Girardelli alter posting the fastest time in the Lap part of the course had to Settle for eighth. Shriver humbles Sutkova Sydney Australia a top seeded fam Shriver scored an impressive 6-2, 6-3 Victory Over second seeded Helena Sutkova of Czechoslovakia in the $200.000 new South Wales open Tennis championships at White Gay sunday to the 1123,400 men s final austra Lian Davis cup player John Fitzgerald seeded fifth posted a 6-3, 6-4 win Over third seeded Andrei Chesnokov of the soviet Union. Shriver displayed excellent passing shots and served superbly to wrap up the match in jus 55 minutes. The Victory was Shriver s second in two weeks Fol lowing her Success in a tournament in Brisbane. Nursing a Groin injury which she sustained in her quarterfinal clash with swe Den s Calarina linguist Shriver never was troubled by her  rival. Sutkova had not dropped a set an her Way to the final but found herself out classed by the american. Referring to her Groin injury Shriver said she was confident the would be All right for the australian open which is to stun monday. "1 did t really want to worry about in until after this tournament but i guess i la have to think about it now she said. I m sure it will be Fine but i la request a wednesday Start in the open just to  Shriver now has beaten Sutkova on grass three limes in four meetings with an Overall had to had record of 5-2 in Shriver s favor. In the women s doubles Sutkova again missed out. Partnered by West German Claudia to hic Kilsch the pair was beaten by american Ann Hynric Kesort and Christiane Jolissaint of Switzerland 7-6 7-5 4-6,6-3. N the men s doubles australians Dunn chill and Mark Traumann took the title by defeating americans Marc Flur and Bini Schultz 7-6, 10-8. M. Nfn sports radio College basketball Okli Hort it Loa Liuyu Stile 3 06 . Tuesday