European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                No rematch . Gains final but soviets lose sunday july 29, 1990the stars and stripes a Page 19 by John Nelson Seattle apr the . Basketball team won and that was Good enough for a Gold medal rematch with the soviets. Problem is the soviets weren to Good enough Friday when their big red sports machine failed then almost failed again at the Goodwill games. The . Team beat Brazil 112-95. Earning a trip to the Gold medal final sunday night against the yugoslavs who Defeated the soviet Union 84-78. Disaster closed in on the soviets again later in the evening when their women gymnasts fell behind the United states Halfway through the team Competition. The americans have never won a team Gold medal in a big meet like this and it looked like a huge upset in the making As Kim Zmeskal 14, freckled and stamped for stardom was wowing the crowds. But the heavily favored soviets rallied in the final two events winning narrowly. The United states settled for a Silver medal and solid Gold future. A we Are now right on their heels a . Coach Bela Karolyi said. A next year we will be More experienced and More  basketball the brazilians expected to go to the Gold medal game. They had gone through the round Robin portion of the basketball tournament undefeated and two of their players Oscar Schmidt and Macel Sousa were around when Brazil beat America for the Gold medal at the 1987 pan american games but the . Team totally dominated the brazilians this time playing aggressively on defense and patiently on offence. Kenny Anderson had 25 Points for the . Team and Billy Owens 22. Three times the . Team led by 25 Points the last at 102-77 with 6 35 to play on a driving Layup by Alonzo mourning. Dino Radi a had 31 Points in Yugoslavia s upset of the soviets. The soviets led 63 Goodwill games 61 with 9 11 left. But Yugoslavia ran off six straight Points including four by Radia to take the Lead for Good. Valeri Tikhon Enko led the soviets with 21 Points. Gymnastics the . Team took advantage of a rare mistake by soviet world Champion Svete Lana Roginskaya who fell from the uneven parallel bars to Lead 59.186-59.161 with two events left at that Point the soviets had the floor exercise and vault left while the Ameri can a Unis Elt a on the vault and uneven parallel bars. Zmeskal competing despite tendinitis in her left hand had a 9.912 of a possible in in the uneven bars her worst 5-year-old Betty Okino scored . A i told them before the Competition that they had worked very hard and there was nothing wrong with losing a soviet coach Alexander Alexandrov said. But the soviet girls got four scores Over 9.9 in the vault led by Oksana Chousovitina with 9.987, the Best score of the night. They won with 118.759 Points to 118.484 for the americans. China was third. A we knew the americans would be very Good and their showing will produce an even bigger crowd tomorrow night a Alexandrov said. With 39.661 Points toward her teams total Zmeskal had More Points than any other gymnast setting herself up for a big Day saturday when the women Sall around championship was to be derided. A i Wasny to really surprised Quot Zmeskal said. Quot my routines were already set and i just had to decide if i wanted to go All  ice hockey the hockey tournament began Friday As Sweden beat Czechoslovakia 5-4. Neither the soviets nor the americans Alonzo mourning of us. Tries to Block a shot by Brazil s Israel Andrade in Friday game. A open until saturday. The . Team plays Switzerland and the soviets open against West Germany. The soviets still Are fuming Over what they consider the theft of one of their Star players Sergei Fedorov by the Detroit red wings of the nil Fedorov left the soviet team sunday and flew to Detroit. Quot the future is not so Good a soviet coach Igor Dmitriev said. Quot we have no Protection against the dishonest activity of the  soviet team includes 15 players who have been drafted by the nil at one time or another. Scope Quick but still starting 21st Talladega Ala apr Derike Cope improved by nearly 4 Mph Friday to Lead second Day qualifying for sundays diehard 500 at t a Adega super Speedway. The Daytona 500 Winner whose Chevrolet ttui1a1i1in�ure 2.66-mile, High banked Oval at 186.206 Mph in thursdays opening round of time nals jumped to 190.147. That would have been ninth Best on thursday instead Cope will Start 21st. Dale Jarrett was second among the 14 Drivers no made qualifying attempts on Friday jumping from 185,554 to 189.721. He will Start next to Cope. The big names who did not qualify in in. I p up Vious Day stood on their first Day laps and made the 42-car Field. That include Ken Schrader Ricky Rudd Rusty Wallace or aet Waltrip Rick Wilson buddy Baker Greg sacks and Lake Speed. Richard Petty the Only seven time Winston up Champion and 200-race Winner had a prob Pontiac and slowed from thurs in in r t0 128.377, leaving him out of the top 40 qualifiers. Ear Quot cd Petty was added to the rear is is a provisional starter As was hut 177189 slipped Friday from. 186.525 to wrestling Chris Wilson a late substitution on the Canadian team stunned 149,5-Pound soviet Champion Arsen a Dzanev with a take Down with eight seconds to go. The Victory sent Wilson into the Bronze medal mater and eliminated a Dzanev from medal Contention. A Dzanev a four time world Champion and 1988 olympic Gold medallist never had lost in the 149,5-Pound division. A it feels great. It feels incredible Quot said Wilson a 9-0 loser to a Dzanev in their Only other meeting. Quot i kept him away from his favorite move and used my favorite  Senna retains up pole by Randy Barnett motor sports editor Bockenheim West Germany a a brazilian Ace Ayrton Senna never had a problem Here saturday in retaining his pole position for sundays 52nd German grand prix. Senna found it unnecessary even to make an attempt because his record qualifying time from Friday never was challenged. A i thought my Lap would hold up and it did a Senna said after the final qualifying session before 60,000 unbaked spectators. A so we used the time to practice under race conditions with race tires and full fuel tanks. If necessary i could have gone under my Best time of Friday. In a certain but there was no Point in  Senna achieved his 47th career pole position with a time of 1 minute 40.198 seconds an average Speed of 151.744 Miles per hour. The starting positions established Friday for sundays race were unchanged at the top following saturdays runs with the two Mclaren hondas on the front Row and the two Ferrari cars next up. Gerhard Berger of Austria made no attempts to improve on his time either but easily retained his front Row starting position across from teammate Senna. Alain Prost of France the defending world Champion and 1990 leading Driver with 41 Points starts in third spot on the second Row and his Ferrari teammate Nigel Mansell of England also retained his fourth place starting position. The Williams Renault cars make up the third Row of the 13-Row starting Grid with Riccardo Patrese of Italy in fifth spot and Thierry Boutsen of Belgium sixth. Senna the 1988 formula one world driving Champion Erman grand prix is seeking not Only his third straight German grand prix Victory Here sunday but also a turn of Fortune As Well. His last grand Pix win came in the Canadian round on june 10, and he a been out of Luck since. Former teammate and now Arch rival Prost meanwhile has won All three races since Canada a the mexican French and British grands prix. Prost now leads Senna for the title by two Points going into the German round. But Senna is highly optimistic about his opportunities for Victory Here sunday and with Good reason. A i the final qualifying session on saturday he said i feel that i have a very Good Chance tomorrow everything has gone much better Here than it did in France and the Honda engines have been very Strong. I did 20 laps Here today during the final session and that s almost half distance for tomorrows race. Both Beiger and i ran on full tanks and on race tires and we gamed a lot of information. I just Hope it pays off. Quot if its As hot tomorrow As its been Here today Quot Senna added a it will be a very Tough race especially on the tires and engines. It s a Power circuit so the engines have to run on maximum revs. This heat will be Tough on the Drivers  a filling out the top 10 positions on the 26-car starting and Are Nelson Piquet of Brazil seventh in a Benetton Ford Jean Alesi of France eighth in a Tyrrel Ford Alessandro Nannini of Italy ninth in a Benetton Ford and Ivan Capels of Italy in a Leyton House March Judd. Sundays German grand prix ninth round in the world in Vang championship starts at 2 . A crowd of More than 100,000 is expected