European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 23.1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 Winter olympics Wolf wins 3rd Alpine Gold for Austria by John Mossman mount Allan Alberta a Sigrid Wolf blistering the lower two thirds of the course after a slow Start collected Austria s third Alpine Gold medal monday in the olympic women s super giant slalom. Wolf 4, who won a world cup super a at ses Trier. Italy earlier this season finished a full second ahead of Switzerland s Mich la Figini and 1.26 seconds in front of Canadian Karen Percy who captured her second Bronze medal of these games. Wolf maintaining her tuck most of the Way Down a fairly straight course which closely resembled a Down Hill was timed in i Minuit. 19.03 seconds. Vigini finished in 1 20.03 and Percy in 1 20.29. T1 Wolf had Only the eighth fastest time at inc first intermediate Point on the course leaving her 26-Hun dred Lesof a second behind the pack scaling Figini. Hut Wolf found  line through the remain ing gales bettering Figini s second intermediate clock ing Hysi i or Nils of a second and lengthening her mar Gin to the finish Wolf was so fasl at the finish in fact thai she nearly missed the final turn swinging wide but making thai Bate. With three Gold medals after six Alpine events aus Tria continued to dominate the heavily favored Swiss who came into these games expecting As Many As eight Gold medals. Switzerland has but one so far. High on top i did t give the optimal performance Wolf said. But lower Down i was quilt Happy. In the last few races austrians have been skiing very Well. If we Are careful we Ean win the other races in the olympics in addition to her super a Victory this season. Wolf has won two downhill races in seven seasons of world cup racing. She also was fastest in a super a at Lech am Arlberg Austria on Jan. 9, Bui she and three other austrian were disqualified for allegedly using safety pins to fasten Down the Start numbers on their ski suits thus gaining an unfair aerodynamic advantage. Wolf denied the allegation. The Best skier wan today Wall scr said. Sigrid has won some Good races and she has finished High several  Percy a native of nearby Banff who finished third in the downhill said it would have been Nice la get a different color medal but Bronze is still a Madaland i m realty Happy. Super a has really been coming on Strong for me and i knew i had a Chance for the top three the United states cracked the top 10 for the first time with Edith toys of Squaw Valley. Calif., placing ninth in 1 20.93.in other action monday afternoon Sweden which dominated the i9b4 games Cross country events won its first Cross country medal Here winning the men s 40-Kilometer relay. Die soviet Union increased its leading medal total to 17 with the Silver and Czecho Slovakia won the Bronze. Finland tilled out the final spot in the medals round of Fth hockey tournament beating Poland 5-1. Temperature dropped and n cold biting wind arrived forcing another postponement of the ski jump and delaying monday s Start of the final two runs of bobsled. The ski jump already rescheduled from last sat urday was pushed Back to tuesday while officials hoped to get the bobs going later in inc  far. Wind and wild fluctuations of  have forced 10 postponements in eight different sports. Blair Aims to disrupt East German pack us Speed skater Bonnie Blair scents equal to dominant East German women. By Rick Cano Calgary Alberta api Bonnie Blair Learned to Speed skate Competti Cly by jostling her Way through crowds in pack style skating a roller Derby of sorts on ice. Now she s trying to Man Euver put the East germans who have dominated women s Speed skating since the 1984 Winter olympics when they claimed nine of \2 medals and finished 1-2 in each of the four events. I think pretty much any woman s goal in Speed skating is to beat the Cdr said Blair who hoped to do that in monday s 500-Mcicr race in which she is one of the medal favourites. They be been on top for so Long. It s Only been recently that a couple of us have been Able to interrupt their 1-2-3 on the  Blair finally broke through in 1986 at a world cup meet when she beat East German s Karin Kania the 500-Metcr gom medallist at Lake Placid in 1980. Kania also won four medals ill Sara co four years later golds in the 1,000 and 1,500 and silvers at 500 and 3.000 me ters. Bui Blair considers her lop competitor for the 500 Gold at Calgary to be world record Holder Chrisla Rothenburger of where else East Germany who won the world sprint title earlier this month and is the defending Gold medallist in the 500. In the sprint championships held in Windy conditions at Milwaukee. Blair and Rothon Burger split two 500-meter races. Blair won the second Healing Rothon Burber in a rare had to head pairing. U was Blair s first Victory in an International 500 meters in two months and for her an important one. Right now t think it s just basically Chrisla and 1 who arc inc tap  Dalr 23, of Champaign ell., said. Going in it seems  Kolhan Burger established the world record of 39,39 seconds in Calgary in december taking it away from Blair who had skated a 39.43 in 1987. Blair s ability to skate the turns at High Speed something she teamed from her Days As a world indoor pack style Cham Pion is something she s counting on la carry her past inc East germans. Basically i m a technical skater. Thill s the thing 1 concentrate on. I Don t have the Power and strength of Cdr women so i do have to try to surpass them in another Way. That Way for me is to have Good technique 1 think that is one of their Haws Blai r said. Blair said she has not looked Pisi the olympics. But if she docs beat Dolhen Burger and Kania and win a Gold medal endorsements would certainly be Forth coming to fact she says one with Disney world is already in the works. Out she s not worried about it. That time will come if and when it happens she said. Polish icer denies drug use Tyr pics on to by Larky Siddons Calgary. Alberta a polish sports officials insisted monday that their top hockey player barred from the Winter olympics for steroid use had beep in innocent victim of tax Security and housekeeping. Thi is a Nightmare for  Zbigniew Glapa. Delegation chief of the polish olympic team said. We see we should have taken More  Jaraslaw Morawiecki Poland s lop scorer in the olympic tournament said he did not violate Ami drug rules and that he May have swallowed testosterone a banned strength builder in drinks left around a Ctm Lerud locker room. He said he might quit hockey. " never look any kind of drugs. I Don t even know what they look like Morawiecki said. I Don t feet victimized although i am a victim. 1 did t know something like this could happen. Clapa said he was not accusing anyone of sabotaging Morawiecki and said he could offer no proof other than the players statements and support from friends and teammates that Morawiecki would never violate the rules. He also said the polish olympic committee accepted that the player s urine Sample contained traces of inc banned drug and Only was questioning How it got there Clapa and Jerzy Widuchowski the polish team Doc Tor said Access to the temporary Lacker room outside the Corral rink was fairly open. They said that open containers of drinks along with Orange peels were scattered around the room when the polish players showed up for practice last wednesday and thai other athletes possibly figure skaters also were using the quarters. Tuesday German second program -1 15 . Monday s highlight German first program &-15  but blog 9 . Nordic combined. Wednesday yarn 1 a women s 3,000-meter Speed suling. Hockey. German first program 1 30 �.nt. Ice dancing women s 3,000-Nwtrr Speed skating in us 5 . Tuesday highlights. German second program Nurok combined men s 30-Kilometer Ems country Tuy. Wurn s Grinbl Sll Loic final round hockey. 8 15 . Women s pint to Nom find round hockey 10-.id . Final Roond hockey