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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 15, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 27moses Abandons bobsled team by Ron Mckinney staff writer Frankfurt Germany Edwin Moses was missing when the . Olympic bobsled hopefuls stopped at Frankfurt a International Airport tuesday morning on their Way to Winterberg Germany for a controversial second tryout. But Moses place was filled by another name athlete a Herschel Walker. The bobsled team was initially chosen at the olympic trials last summer but an arbitrator ruled saturday that the team was unfairly selected and ordered the new round of tryouts. Moses and football players Willie Gault and Greg Harrell who had filed a protest against the . Bobsled federation after they failed to qualify for the team in the olympic trials were Given another Opportunity to qualify. However monday Moses dropped out of bobsledding to concentrate on making the summer olympics As a hurdler. In their protest the athletes claimed that they weren to informed of the sched ule and regulations of the trials last summer when they finished one hundredths of a second behind Todd Snavely Jeff Woodard and Bryan Leturgez. After fighting for a berth Moses issued a statement monday in los Angeles saying that he had to decide what was Best for the bobsled team the . Olympic committee and himself. A my conclusion is that i must stay the course and be ready for the summer games in Barcelona and let my bobsled teammates move Forward in the selection process with the soc a Moses said. Moses had said he wanted to try to bring Home medals from both the Winter and summer olympics but he decided that he  change his schedule now and be ready for the final bobsled trials. The second qualifying has left Many of the bobsled pushers with mixed feelings in a sport that has been plagued with controversy in recent years. A i done to really agree with it a said Joe Sawyer who made the bobsled team last summer. Quot you re named to the olympic team and then you re not. But at this Point the Only thing you can do is go ahead with  Gault who first stirred up controversy when he was named an alternate for the 1988 olympic games said yesterday that he had met every criteria he was supposed to meet in making the team. Except having earned his spot. Gaultt a chances at making the team Are a just As Good As anyone else so he said. Gault said that he and Moses were the fastest pushers in the world last year but he did no to resent the hurdler shaving pulled out. A the has to make his personal decision. I respect it a Gault said. That left a spot open for Walker who Wasny to thinking of just making the olympic team. A before i left i said i wanted to win a medal no matter what a Walker said. But the football players presence have left some uneasy feelings among the lesser known bobsled pushers several of whom declined to talk. Wayne Aubertin who was selected As an alternate last summer said he would be anxious about taking a spot from someone who had a regular position on the  i done to want to lose that alternate position because in a still considered part of the team a said Aubertin of Rockville my. A but if i beat some Guy who was permanently on the team its not going to make me very Happy a Aubertin said. A this is a close knit family. In be known these Guys for years. Ill have some guilt even though it was another fair  when asked if it was right that they try out again Aubertin said a no  the bobs edders had spent the last few months training together in Europe and most said they did t expect to have to try out again. Sawyer of Denver col., is confident of making the team again but he Isnit sure what his reaction would be if he loses his position. When asked if he Felt it was right to hold the tryouts again Sawyer shrugged his shoulders and said a the Point is we be already had the  wire reports contributed to this Story sports wiretap names Seles top female athlete from wire reports Melbourne Australia a it was a time of glittering triumphs and embarrassing gaffes for Monica Seles a grand slam year with a giant Hole in the Middle and wild rumours swirling All around. Yet in the end the tall lanky teen with the grunting ground strokes stood above All others As the 1991 a female athlete of the year. Selected overwhelmingly by sports writers and broadcasters Seles tuesday joined a Sterling list of athletes since the first award in 1931. Just turned 18, she became the youngest Winner since 15-year-old olympic Gold medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton in 1984. A it Means a lot to me because of All the great athletes who have won it like Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner Kersee a Seles said As she Learned of the vote at the australian open. A to be in that group and with Michael Jordan winning the menus award is a really great  Seles won All three of the grand slams she entered a the australian French and . Opens a plus the Virginia slims championships while winning a record $2.5 million and succeeding Steffi Graf As no. 1. In the balloting Seles received 72 of 120 first place votes and a total of 432 Points. Tied with 114 Points were Tennis player Martina Navratilova a two time Winner and golfer Pat Bradley. Gymnast Kim Zmeskal was second to Seles in first place votes. She got 10 and a total of 72 Points. Ahead of her in Points were golfer Meg Mallon who got 104, and softball Pitcher Debbie doom with 96. The naming of Seles who succeeds golfer Beth Dan Iel As female athlete of the year gives Tennis 23 winners in the 61 years of the award. Rounding out the top 10 in the voting were Tennis players Gabriela Sabatini Graf and Jennifer Capriati and track Star Diane  captures slalom Garmisch Germany a after spending a week watching videotapes of Alberto Tomba Patrice Bianchi of France stunned the italian Star monday and won a menus slalom for his first world cup Victory. Tomba not Only lost the race but was overtaken by Paul Accola of Switzerland for the Overall world cup Lead. Bianchi was second after the first run and won the race when Thomas Sta Gassinger of Austria Slid past a Gate just before the finish. Sta Gassinger climbed Back and finished but dropped to 11th. He led Bianchi by nine hundredths of a second after the first run. Bianchio a winning time was 1 minute 37.31 seconds for two runs. Strolz finished in 1 37.67, while Tomba was timed in 1 37.72. Accola finished eighth and also won the combined with his ninth place finish in saturdays downhill. It was the seasons first combined event a paper race that links results of the two competitions. The combined Victory gave Accola 100 Points and the eighth place finish in the slalom earned him another 40.sportscaster Brenner Dies Washington a Washington sportscaster Glenn Brenner whose witty irreverent style made him one of the capitals most popular television personalities died tuesday of a brain tumor. He was 44. Brenner was stricken in november after competing in the Marine corps Marathon and doctors then said he suffered a cerebral Haemorrhage. Doctors discovered the inoperable tumor Only last Friday. The Washington redskins dedicated their pfc championship Victory to Brenner and head coach Joe Gibbs presented the sportscaster with the game Ball. 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