European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 b the stars and stripes tuesday february 25, 1992courier, Edberg to play in olympics London apr the three players who combined to win the four men s 1991 grand slam titles head the list of competitors for the Tennis events at this Summers olympics. Forty direct entrants to both the menus and the women a singles draws were announced monday by the International Tennis federation. The big names in the menus events will be american Jim courier the French and australian Champion Wimbledon Champion Michael Stich from Germany and Sweden a Stefan Edberg Winner of the . Open title. Pete Sampras the 1990 . Open Champion and Boris Becker a three time Wimbledon Winner also will play. But John Mcenroe and Andre Agassi will not be at Barcelona. Their names were not put Forward by the . Federation. In the women a singles Germany a Steffi Graf ranked no. 2 in the world will be favored to win the Gold medal for the second time in the absence of the women ranked first third and fourth. Those players a Monica Seles Gabriela Sabatini and Martina Navratilova a did not participate in last years federation cup Competition and so Are not eligible for olympic consideration. Grass main rivals will be Arantha Sanchez Vicario the 1989 French open Champion from Spain and americans Jennifer Capriati and Mary Joe Fernandez. In both menus and women a events the 40 direct entrants will be joined by eight wild cards and 16 qualifiers to Complete 64-draw Fields East germans key olympic Gold mine by Kevin Costelloe Berlin apr in the just ended Winter olympics Thuringia athletes snatched up More medals than the . Team. Thuringia sure its just one newspapers Way of pointing out that Thuringia and other Eastern regions powered the German teams Success in Albertville. German athletes won 26 medals while the unified team came in second with 23. The . Had 11 medals. But amid the monday morning euphoria germans realize most of the credit is due to athletes from former communist East Germany. A in the Savoy Alps the Eastern Ger mans won the absolute majority of the 26 medals a Leipzig a Volk Zeitung daily newspaper said in a front Page editorial. A Thuringia is stronger than the .A.�?� Leipzig is the proud but battered Eastern German City where the 1989 revolution against the communist dictatorship took Root. While German officials sought to play Down the East West Divide in Albertville Eastern germans accounted for More than three quarters of the medal totals. Not bad when you consider that East Germany has Only about 16 million of the United country a 80 million people. American Jim courier and Germany a Steffi Graf will top the 64-Pfayer olympic  wingless Road skein continues by the associated press new York a the Road got even harder for the Philadelphia flyers with the Madison Square Garden ice crumbling beneath them and Mark Messier skating double shifts for the new York rangers. Leading 1-0 Midway through the third period on Mike Riccio a goal and Rookie goalie Dominic Rousselo a Stellar performance the flyers appeared ready to win their first Patrick division Road game in exactly a year 0-12-2. Tony Montc put an end to those Hopes however when he tied the game with 11 31 left in regulation and scored the game Winner with 39 seconds left in overtime on a perfect pass from Messier. Messier flipped a backhand pass from behind the flyers net to Amonte who banked the puck in off Rousselo a shoulder. A the had a Little ice to skate and he made a great play behind the net a Amonte said of Messier. A i was just there to pick up the scraps a the flyers Are aware of the Road Streak although flyer coach Bill Dineen chooses to ignore it. A a we re not even mentioning it a Dineen said. A a what a the sense of bringing up a negative thing i think we re All aware of it but there a no sense harping on  the game never developed a rhythm As gaping holes in the ice caused delays. Its a familiar problem at Madison Square Garden but one the rangers have to learn to take advantage of Messier said. A conditions Tike this have to be seen As a plus because we be played on it before Quot Messier said. In other games sunday Blackhawk 4, blues 2 Chicago a Michel Goulet scored twice As Chicago overcame a two goal deficit to beat St. Louis. The Blackhawk unbeaten at Home in nine games 6-0-3got a Strong performance from goalie Dominik Fausek. The Blackhawk fell behind 2-0, but Goulet tied it with goals 2 12 apart. Jeremey Roenick who assisted on Gouletas two goals gave the Blackhawk a 3-2 Lead at 13 32 of the second period. Dirk Graham added a National hockey league insurance goal with 1 57  3, Canad Lens 3, of Montreal a Claude Lapointe scored in the third period and Stephane Fiset made 41 saves As Quebec tied Montreal Only the eighth time this season the Nordques Haven to lost on the Road. Lapointe had a breakaway late in overtime but time ran out before he slipped the puck Between the legs of goalie Andre Racicot. Mats Sundin and Greg Paslawski also scored for Quebec. Denis Savard Kirk Muller and Brent Gilchrist scored for Montreal unbeaten in its last seven Home games 5-0-2 Kings 4, jets 2 Winnipeg Manitoba a Wayne Gretzky had three assists and los Angeles climbed into sole Possession of second in the smythe division with a Road Victory Over Winnipeg. The score was tied 1-1 after the first period but los Angeles opened a 4-1 Lead 14 minutes into the second on goals by John Mcintyre Bob Kudelski and Taylor. Peter Ahola scored the Kings other Dave goal. I _ Kings Thomas Steen and Phil Sykes scored for the  5, sabres 2 Edmonton Alberta a Scott Mellanby scored his 20th goal and Edmonton beat Buffalo and former coach John luckier returning to Edmonton for the first time. Mellanby and Luke Richardson scored first period goals and Bemie Nicholls and Petr Klima put the oilers ahead 4-0. Anatoli Semenov scored Edmonton a other goal. Bob Corkum and Dave Andreychuk scored for  2, Bruins 1, of Vancouver British Columbia a Pavel Bure took advantage of a Sloppy Boston Clearing pass scoring 2 52 into overtime to give Vancouver a Victory at Home. Vancouver goalie Kirk Mclean was Superb stopping 32 shots Overall and 16 in the third period. Canuck defens Eman Dave Babych tied the game Early in the third period on a disputed Power play goal. The Bruins took a 1-0 Lead when Vladimir Ruzicka scored a Power play goal 3 28 into the  4, islanders 1 new York a Peter Bondra scored two third period goals to help visiting Washington snap new Yorkus four game winning Streak. With the capitals leading 1-0 on Kevin hatchery a Power play goal Bondra took a Cross ice feed from Mich Al Pivonka and fired a 10-foot wrist shot Over Glenn Hea Tyr a right shoulder at 12 36 of the third period. Steve Thomas scored at 13 10 As the islanders closed to 2-1, but Bondra quickly restored the two goal Lead. Kelly Miller scored an empty net goal with 13 seconds  4, Sharks 2 Daly City Calif. A Sergei Makarov and Gary Suter scored 38 seconds apart in the second period to lift Calgary to Victory at san Jose. The flames overcame a 2-0 deficit to extend their unbeaten Streak to four games 3-0-1 and end a seven game Road wingless Streak 0-6-1. It was the seventh consecutive loss for the Sharks with the score tied 2-2, Makarov scored an unassisted Power play goal at 8 19 of the second period. A1 a clams and Paul Kruse also scored for the flames. Pat Falloon and Paul Fenton scored Power Olav goals for the Sharks. V 3 6red Wing 4, whalers 0 Hartford Conn. A Tim Che veldae stopped 24 shots to Post his fourth career shutout As Detroit won at Hartford its sixth straight Victory. Che veldae making his league leading 58th appearance earned his league leading 32nd win with his second shutout this season although he did not have Many difficult saves. Steve Yzerman Ray Sheppard Kevin Miller and Steve Chiasson scored for Detroit