European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february 26.19bb the stars and stripes Page 21 finn flies again ii John ski son Cain diary Alberta api the flying inn Hail a living finish. Dehi Thomas Imi Katarina will had a flying Start and the soviets finally failed to win a i Ilal wednesday in the Alreid an unprecedented Winner of the 9 1 and 7l Meier individual events Malli n Kani n k Cuine the games Only Tnp cold medallist when Finland won the new a a ctr Leann i jumping l Viii. Thai kept the soviets from Binning i medal Tor Hie Fini Lime in 11 jays Al Winter olympics though the cold Rushing East already was regaining momentum in the poise of w to and the Power of the soviet hut a 1 least. The undefeated Sii Viels opened medal play wednesday night by Healing Canada 5-0. He i naming the Host country from any Hance ofom naga fold or Silver. Otho slinalii.1. The i we Silver Winner was eliminated from the medals race altogether. Thomas the . Figure skaling Dum Pinn. Limed up for her Duel with Wilt. East Ier Manv v defending olympic Champion by finishing second i itch the compulsory Liy ures. Will was within easy striking distance in third. Kira Ivanova of the so Iel Union was first. Hula Ltd Mure on i Ujke 23. Vreni sch neuter won the women s giant slalom giving Sivi Lurland another v Clury in us Lulille for Alpine supremacy with four medals the United slates trailed far behind the leading soviets who have 22. Including eight Zowi. Kasl Ger Many remained in second with 17 medals seven Gold. A Nerland has 10 medals All but oncoming i n Alpine skiing. The other Swiss medal came in the nordic combined team where they finished second to world Champion West Germany Austria in the to foot. The soviets have won 1-1 straight of Pic hockey games dating Hack to the is so loss to the United slates in Lake Placid. The shutout was the seconding these Ciales for soviet goaltender Sergei m Vinikov who made 17 saves "1 think Iii is one of the Harden matches our least Lias plated Soviel assistant coach Igor Mil River said. The soviet lean j of three goals in the final 12 minutes from Alexander Mogil no Vladimir Kurtov and their Star. Sit i Makarov. Canada heal the Sou Etsal the Izvestia tournament in Moscow Las december and in Canada three Days before the olympics but ill is time they could gel few Olvyn Vic opportunities. We certainly would have liked to be competing for the Gold Canad an coach Dave King said. Bui we re wild either the swedes or the finns had u Chance to beat the dowiels. But. He added ii will take a very Good game to beat in Oiher opening medal round hockey games. Sweden eliminated Czechoslovakia rum medal Contention with a 6-2 Finland s Malli n Tanen stars n his third find mid a a urls to w i dts Day s a other team Iki Jii Nipin Evi Tombo la Bomba blows pm away world c Lif noon inn Ull ski tit Kyllon alb Tii Tor Aba if Only crushed Tho pc the Lii of inning Thi Bow medal in i it men s i in slalom. Slurry in Vuki 23, Xii try. And Finland beat West Germany s-0. In our country hockey is the no. I sport Czechoslovakia assistant coach Frantisek Pospisil said. It was More or less expected that we would bring Home a Nykanen had jumps of i i and 114.5 meters two Lonj cil of Hie Day. In leading Finland to the team title. Boih jumps went real Nykanen said. I had a great feeling about them. There is More pressure in team jump ing because if you Don t have a Good jump everyone else Wilt no jumper had Ever won More than one Gold medal in an olympics until no Kanen captured the two individual lilies a format that was adopted in 1968. The team jump is new this year the United Stales Finis had i oth of 11 Learnt. Wednesday was a Day of confusion and embarrassment for the soviets. Three of their ski jumpers failed to show up for events. Two went Home be fore wednesday s 90-meter and another Allar Levandi. Failed to show for the first part of tuesday s nordic combined team Competition. The soviets were heavily favored to win a medal in the new nordic combined learn event but when Levardi slipped the event because of it nest iwo other soviets did t take All their jumps thai dropped Vliem in last going in wednesday s Cross country relay portion so they pulled out. La was Little Consolation to hit Lui Pless americans. With the soviets gone they finished last in the 10-Lcam Field. Schneider look advantage of a fall by first run Leader titania Fernandez Ochoa of Spain to win with a two run Lime of 2 minutes 6.49 seconds. Schneider was nearly a second ahead of c Hrisula Kinshofer Gutlein of West Germany. 21-year-old Veteran who won a Silver Sla Lom medal in 1980. Switzerland s Maria Wall scr won the a rogue. I was hoping fur a dance in the first three race Sand 1 am overwhelmed with Schneider said. That gave so Guerland nine Alpine medals but Only its second Gold i in min Zurbriggen earlier won the men s downhill. Austria meanwhile has Only live Aiping medals but three Gold. Defending Gold medallist Debbie Arm Strong of Seattle finished 13th. One spot behind Diann Roltsc of Williamson. ,
