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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stabs and stripes sunday february 21,1sbb Aba from Pago 21 cd us Home unbeaten siring against go Dan slate so 14. The Mavericks won i hair fourth straight and fifth in six game. Golden slate now 3-23 on attic Road this in Assn. Was Ltd by Terry Cagle s 24 Point and Chris Mullin s 21. Larry Smith Hail i b Rebou Nodi for the warriors. Dallas led %-8d Early in the fourth Quarter Mare Gulden stale scored 14 cons Culive Points reducing inc Maver icks Lead to 9&-94 with five minutes remaining. But inc Man s Short jumper with 4 43 left mopped the siring and he scored us Points during an b-2 Dallas spun that put inc game out of reach. Bulls 111. Kings90 Chicago Michael Jordan Icord 18 of ills 4 l Points in the second Quarter and Brake open n close game with 16 Points Anil Iwu steals in i lie third period lifting Chicago by Sacramento. The hulls leading 55-44 Early in the third period saw the Lead Cul 10 62-58 As oils Thorne and Reggie thus scored four pump each for Ine Kings who lost for the 20th time in 23 Road games. But with Jordan who has nine 40 Point games Ihil season gelling eight paints and two steals Chicago outscored the Kings 12-4 fora a 74-62edge. After taking a 7�-6b Lead into the final Quarter the bulls hit 11 of i hair first 13 Shols in the fourth Quarter for a 105-86 margin with 2 28 icel in tic game. Bull is 106, spun 102 san Antonio Texas Bernard King scored 11 Points and Moses Malone 17, including four free throws in the final 1 06, As Washington beat san Anto Nio. San Antonio trailed Only 100-99 after de scaly s Basket with 1 24 left but a tone s two free throws restored a Ihrck Point Lead. 7ers is nets 100 Philadelphia Charles Barkley scored 43 Points Hilling 16 of 22 shots to Lead Philadelphia Over new Jersey. The win snapped Philadelphia s three game losing Streak. New Jersey lost ils sixth straight Road game and has now lost 24 of 25 games away from Home this season celtics 124, Trail Blum 104 Portland. Ore. Larry Bird playing two nights after breaking his nose against inc Denver nuggets had 40 Points and 13 rebounds leading Boston Over Portland. Bird buried the blazers by hitting four straight baskets during a two minute 13 second sir catch in the final Quarter As the celtics wrapped up an eight game Road trip with a 4-4 record. Bird had 12 Points in the gnat Quarter As Boston playing without Center Robert Parish for the third straight game be cause Ofa Back injury broke open a close conic. Neither team led by More than six Points before Boston s 10-2 run gave it a 101-90 Lead with 6 26 remaining. The last of Bird s four Wraight baskets an 18 footer with 4 42 to play Pul Boston ahead 109-94. The celtics who got 25 Points from Kevin Mulla la outscored the Trail Blai cars 33-16 Over the last 9 08 of the game.  98, clippers 88 los Angeles Darrell Griffith scored 24 Points and John Stockton added 19 Points and an Aba season High 21 assists As Utah Defeated los an a cts Michael Cage scored 23 Points for the clippers who Nave lost five in a Row and 12 of their last 13 games Jansen remains a Winner to family Hometown fans West alts. Wis. A while millions of americans watched in Dis belief As Dan Jansen s Hopes Tor olympic Gold were shattered for the second Lime his family tried 10 Pul the Shock behind them and display a sense of Unity. There arc thing in this life that people can t control said Geraldine Jansen the world Champion Speed skater s Mother. You struggle to make peace with those things. Every thing else you try to make better. It s just probably not in the cards i guess far in to have even one  Jansen who had to carry Bolh Hie Hopes fan olympic medal and the Bur Den of his sister s death resumed Home Early Friday hours after nil second Heartbreak at the Calgary games. Jansen 22, appeared headed for a possible Gold medal in the 1,000 me ters event thursday night but he fell about 200 meters from the finish. Four nights earlier after learning that his 27-year-old sister Jane Beres had died of leukaemia Jansen fell in the first Lurn of the 500-Melers, another event he had been favored 10 win. Everyone s been supportive and i d like to thank everyone for that Jansen said when he arrived Al Mil Waukee s mile hell Airport. Jansen who came Home for his sister s funeral on saturday did not wish to discuss his ordeal further on Friday family members said. But before thursday s race mrs. Jansen had stressed How inc olympics were not the most important thing in her son s or the family life. We Don t care if Dan wins a medal she said and her husband. Harry Jansen. Echoed that sentiment after the race. I m proud of him he said. He Dun Juven Burin Hij bout in hit funds after strand tart Braung Hll Tom Najiy. Did Well just to gel out there and set an example fur everyone  Jansen said he spoke with his son earlier thursday and while his spirits were improved he was still Riding an emotional roller coaster. " asked him to he was doing and he said he was feeling pretty Good Jansen said. But then he would read some of inc Nice telegrams he got and he said would Start feeling Down  one of the messages Jansen received came in ii form of a Banner with thousands of signatures. The Banner which proclaimed Dan be Strong. Keep the Faith. Wis Consin is with you Alt the Way symbolized the Way the Community rallied around i hair Hometown hero. A Milwaukee county Iupe visor in fact proposed that a Park in West Allis be renamed Jansen  the Reso Lution from supervisor Susan Baldwin says the Jensens Are a world class family. Whose intense support for each other in limes of Triumph and tragedy have earned them a family Gold medal " a neighbor of attic Jansens Jeanine Morgan Laid her eyes filled with lean upon seeing the fall of the Young Man she watched grow up. Ii was hard to watch she Laid. But Morgan added she would congratulate Jensen when she Law him. He s a Winner in everybody s eyes she said. Olympic from Page 21 and they be had a Fine tournament Peterson said. I m assuming in will be a very difficult game for us. Our games with Germany Over the years have been very Lough and we be usually been fight ing for the same  Kinchl a super giant slalom specialist won the downhill by three quarters of a second Over brie Itic Ortli of Switzerland one of the world Best All around skiers. Percy was a Hundredth of a second behind Oculi and Switzerland s Figini was nearly i i seconds behind Kiehl. When i came to inc finish. I thought not bad but not a medal Kinchl said clutching a stuffed animal she called Teufel or Devil. Now i m Here. I can t believe  Figini was heavily favored to defend the Ink she won in 1984. But she was hard Pul to attack he twisting upper part of the course with the winds still blow ing. She had trouble with a fallaway turn near the lop of the course then caught a gust of wind on the next Lum. I Don l like to be unfair to the win Ner but wind made the race easy for a few and difficult for Many others Figini said. "1 was among the  the winds of Winter called Chinook in these parti were playing a big pan in these games they forced no delays of five different event so far blew ski Rac Ere around like Tumbleweed and had or Ganiere blustering Over suggestions that the 90-meter ski jump be moved. The olympics Are in Calgary and the ski jumping will take place in Calgary organizing chairman Frank King said even if it Means holding the event after the closing ceremonies based on the forecast for continued wind officials postponed the 90-Mclcr ski jump from saturday and moved it to monday. That once again delay Matt Nykanen s quest for aft unprecedented second jumping Gold medal i m not usually very nervous before big competitions said the flying finn except for the usual butterflies. But All the wailing Here makes you  the women s downhill originally was scheduled for thursday but it was postponed a Day by winds that gusted up to 70 Mph and blew Ortli right off the course even on Friday some skiers Felt the race should t have been run in 35 Mph winds with higher gusts. We should not have started the race said Sigrid Wolf of Austria who had consistently fast training times but missed a Gate one third at inc Way Down. It s bitter in lose this Way because the olympics arc a one in four cars Opportunity America s top Hope in the downhill Pam Fletcher broke her leg in warmups thursday. The lop . Finisher Wai Edilh Thys of Squaw Valley calif., who finished 18th. Hilary Lindh of Juneau Alaska missed a pie. Mikhail Devia Tairov of the soviet Union won the men s 15-Kilomeler Cross country race and teammate Vladimir Simov added a Bronic to the Silver he won in the 30 Kilometres. That gave inc soviets eight of the 11 Cross country medals awarded so far including three of the four golds. Pal Gunnar Mikuc Liptaji of Norway won the Silver. Joerg Hoffmann and Jochyn Pietzsch of East Germany 1984 Bronze medallists and i9b7 world champions won the doubles luge followed by countrymen Stefan Krausse and Jan Chr end Thom As Schwab and Wolfgang Klaudinger of West Germany were third. East germans look All three luge Gold medals including a sweep in the women s event led by Steffi Waller. With the freestyle left in men s figure skating Boitano held a slim Lead Over Orser with Alexander Fadeev of the so Viet Union  won the Short program and Boi  was second although he skated n slightly More difficult routine and per formed it flawlessly. Thul indicates the judges favor Orser s slyly and thai makes him a slight favorite. Fadeev is not considered particularly Strong in the freestyle. Michael Andretti escapes injury in crash Phoenix Ariz. A Michael an Dreili escaped injury Friday in a crash during a Tecsi session Al Phoenix International raceway. Andretti 2i, a testing his new 1983 March cos won indy car when he lost control and slammed into the Wall in Lura two on the one mile Oval. A track official said the youngster the son of longtime racing Star Mario an Retli walked away from the mid mom ing crash but the car Wai badly damaged and the Draco sep team quit for the Day. The cart pig indy car series opener is scheduled Here april 10  
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