European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 36 the stars and stripes wednesday february 10,1988 Mckinney Mcgrath win slalom i Copper Mountain Colo. A Tamara Mckinney and fell mgr ugh. The United slates lop Lechnick specialists captured the women s and men s slalom monday in he concluding events of the . Alpine ski championships. Mckinney. Whose season has been on hold because of .1 broken left overtook five other slices tin the second run to win the women s race. Mcgrath built nearly n full second Lead on the first run despite breaking a ski pole and cruised to a convincing in Mph. Bah races were Tun under a Light snowfall. Mckinney. Who placed third in sat urday s giant slalom in her first Competition of the season said her Victory would live her a needed boost of Confidence leading into the olympics. I needed that i really did she said after first run Leader Heidi Voelker was unable in Huld onto first place. Mckinney. 25, of olympic Valley Calif stood sixth after the first run Dur ing which the lost her goggles alter smacking into the second Gale. Voelker 18, of Pittsfield. Mass., had a first ran diking of 52.58 seconds but six o her skiers were within a half second of her time. Mckinney was us 53.04. Or Kinney put together the fastest Sec Ond run of  Scondi. Then waited As five subsequent skiers including Voelk or. Were unable in better her Mark. Mckinney. America s Best Hope for on Alpine medal at the olympics until her injury had a combined time for to runs of i minute. 43.37 seconds. Beth in own of Aspen goto., was Sec Ond in 1 4.1,4,1. Followed by Heidi Bowes of Steamboat Springs. Colo., in 1 43,50 and Voclker in 1 43.51. It in we dose from first through a photo Juniara Mckinny say the Victory Wilt boost her Confidence heading into the olympics sixth after the first run that i knew i had to give in my All Voelker said. There was no holding Back. Bui i had problem out of the Start. I was nervous Between runs. I had Loo much time to think about  Mckinney said she was thrashing on her first run but added ii was Nice 10 be thrashing finally and taking some chances. I be been Loo careful Loo timid. I was anxious at the Start of my Sec Ond run but 1 settled Down about half Way through and found the Speed i wanted. I was t sure if it was going to be enough i m Back but i still have a ways to go. This makes my Day. This makes my tast couple of months too. I was t very confident in slalom coming into this race. Now i have Lime to do some Fine tuning before  Mcgrath who has More Points on the world cup circuit this season than any other . Skier had a remarkable first run. Considering his equipment problem. He hit a Gale and snapped his right pole Jusi below the grip about one third of the Way Down the course still he had a Lime of 52.29 seconds giving him a commanding ,94 Lead Over Tiger Shaw. Breaking a pole upsets your balance said Mcgrath 24, of Norwich. Al you use your pole As a weapon in slalom. It was a Shock. You never train with just one pole. For about five gales i kind of struggled. Then i began to gel my rhythm with one Arm. I Don t think it affected my time that much and maybe in spurred me  Mcgrath said it was his Best run with one pole Ever and my Only  the Tricky first run course claimed More than half of the Field eight of the skiers in the lop seed of is either fell or missed Gates including defending Cham Pion Bob Ormsby. " did t make any mistakes that run and the course was set with a lot of mis takes to be made said Mcgrath. On his scrod run Mccrath said he just tried to ski clean and not take any unnecessary  Mcgrath had an aggregate Lime of 1 45,18. Troy Walts of Brecken rids coto., was second in 1 46.70, followed by Shaw of Stowe Al in 1 46,86. The combined lilies went to Shaw and Monique  of Aspen Colo. Shaw finished 20th in the downhill sixth in the super giant slalom first in the giant slalom and third in the slalom.  was Lush in the downhill fifth in the super a. First in the giant slalom and lied for fifth in the slalom. Calgary from paga21 chairman John Rule said monday but that s no problem. We need a Little cosmetic snowfall. I i la Lidy a few things up meanwhile. International olympic committee president Juan Antonio a Maranchi officially opened the loss 93rd session monday evening with a speech Lough on drugs and easygoing on boy Cotters. About an Inch of Snow fell sunday and environment Canada said Arctic air would drop afternoon temperatures to around Zero or lower. Temperatures were expected to Rise Back above the freezing level by wednesday. With the temperatures they be fore cast for us. If we can just manage to hold them through the net 16 Days then we won t have to worry Aboul getting cold crowds Rule said. Cross country skiing does t begin until sunday and Rule said workers Al the Canmore nordic Center would have no trouble removing excess Snow from the race course and service areas by then. And it la help cover up some of the Brown spots where we be shovelled Snow of Fth roads Rule said. At Lakiska she of Alpine skiing com petition gets under Way Wilh the men s downhill sunday but timed practice runs begin wednesday. Lou Macea Chern Alpine venue chairman said any excess Snow will be removed or packed Down As a matter of routine. We re always packing it. Walking in and grooming it Maceacham said thars just pan of the game. This won i be enough Snow to give us any  Maceachern said the Alpine trails were ready for racing. We would have liked to have races two Days ago Maceachern said. It s Beautiful just Beautiful. This is just what we want every visitor to this country to Sec so they can understand what we re All  cily of Calgary meantime formed a Cost Willce to help with housing and transportation for visitors stranded by the local booking Agency world marketing services inc. Officials estimated that 2.500 to 3,000 tourists bought tick ets rooms and transportation through the Agency whose local representative disappeared last week. Police Are investigating to Sec whether there were any Laws broken. Individuals May Start arriving and have no idea that Aji thing s gone wrong olympic housing Bureau Man Ager John Vargas id. Frank King chairman of the Calgary organizing com Miniee said the company went broke. Most of the 2,500 americans coming 10 Calgary on package Tours sold by Olson trave world Ltd of California official . Ticket Agency had their local reservations made by world marketing. Hob Fleming head of the Calgary tourist and convention Bureau said hotel space and tickets have been reconfirmed for most . Groups. Officials said there also had been some double booking by world Market  police supt Len Esle said his department had interviewed Richard Allan world marketing s operations director who disappeared from Hii office Jasi week. We re not at the Point where we can make a decision whether there s a civil or criminal problem Esler said. In a prepared speech Sam ranch called drug abuse the lowest form of  is alien to our philosophy to our Rales of conduct he said. We shall never tolerate  Texas am to play in Kickoff classic East Rutherford no