European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 a the stars and stripes tuesday june 16, 1992 Power breakfast spurs Austin to olympic berth a v y v a Frenchman Basile Boli trips up England a David Platt in Sweden sunday. Swedes Nab soccer Lead by the associated press Sweden moved to the top of the group one standings and just about cliched a berth in the semifinals of the european championships on sunday while England came away from its game against France wondering when it would score a goal. At Stockholm Tomas Brolin scored in the 59th minute to give Sweden a 10 Victory Over Denmark. Brolin beat danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel from close Range for his 10th goal in 17 International games for Sweden. Sweden leads group one with three Points France and England have two each and Denmark one. The swedes need Only tie England on wednesday to reach the semifinals. At Malmo Sweden England played its second straight scoreless tie this time with the French team dropping both teams to 0-0-2 in the Competition. Denmark and England had played to a scoreless tie on thursday. English defender Stuart Pearce smashed an 84th minute free kick past the French defense but it slammed into the goalpost to highlight an otherwise Dull contest. Action in group two which is led by the Netherlands was to resume on monday with Scotland taking on Germany at Norr Koping Sweden and the Netherlands facing the Commonwealth of Independent states at Gote Borg Sweden. Track Lon shots get bad news new Orleans a officials at the . Olympic track and Field trials head quarters on sunday began notifying the alleles who had qualified for the com petition. They also began dashing the opes of a lot of people including the Man who lost 200 pounds and claimed to run the 2l 0meters faster than Michael Johnson. A the Guy came into the office and told us head been working out and lost 200 pounds getting ready for the trials a said Carolyn Viator who along with Melissa Gautreaux spent the weekend processing the 2,079 entries for the trials june 19-28. A i believed that a he looked Good. What i did no to believe is that he ran the 200 in 19.43. 1 said Phis dude is faster than Michael a Johnson the top a hinted Stales runner in the 200, has a time of 19.88 seconds. About 1,900 people submitted entries for one or More events. Jackie Joyner Kersee had five entries. A California Man topped the Field entering every Field event and every distance race. He also asked for information and entry forms on the wrestling and boxing trials. A a he sent us copies of the bib numbers he wore in races head been in and said he had blood blisters on his feet from running distances Quot Viator said. A the filed an Appeal when we sent him a non qualifier then there was the family of six from Kenner who wanted to know if they needed to submit four separate entries for the members who wanted to comprise a relay team at the trials or if one would do. When told there was no relay event at the trials they were disappointed but still entered. The family who hoped to run the relay weren to the Only people disappointed that there weren to More events scheduled for the trials. A Why Isnit there an event for running de Schuyler or. Worcester mass. A Tim Austin ate like a heavyweight Champion in the morning and fought like a flyweight Champion in the afternoon a i just ate the right food a Austin joked after Power punching his Way to a 78-45 decision Over Aristead Clayton in the 112-Pound final at the olympic trials sunday in the centrum. Austin of Cincinnati peppered Clayton of Baker la., with right jabs and Hooks and solid shots to the body Clayton kept coming Back for More. Vernon Forrest of Augusta ga., the Silver medallist in the 1991 world championships won the 139-Pound title by rallying in the third round for a 39-31 Victory Over Steve Johnston of Colorado Springs Colo. Ivan Robinson of Philadelphia a member of the world championship team was upset 35-20 by Julian Wheeler of the Navy at Little Creek a. Three other world championship team members won on sunday. Raul Marquez of Houston bombed away with right Hooks and lefts to the head and won a 71-18 decision at 156 pounds Over Antwun Echols of Davenport Iowa who took three standing 8-counts. Oscar de la Hoya of los Angeles scored Well with jabs and counter left Hooks and won the 132-Pound title on a 41-6 decision Over Anthony Christodou Lou of Syracuse . Larry Donald of Cincinnati a Bronze medallist at Sydney outta neutered and out jabbed Tyrone Campbell of Houston in winning the super heavyweight title 5319. Eric Griffin Winner of 106-Pound titles at the world championships in 1989 and 1991, and Chris Byrd the 165-Pound member of the 1991 world team won finals saturday. Griffin of Jasper tenn., overwhelmed Mario Bueno of the army at fort Hua Chuca ariz., 70-16. Griffin was credited with 164 scoring blows in his semifinal and final victories. Byrd of Flint mich., whose father Joe will coach the olympic boxing team counter punched his Way to a 41-17 Victory Over Michael Demoss of the marines at Camp Lejeune . Backwards a one outraged applicant asked on his entry form. Many of the hopefuls had overcome Lack of equipment and Viator noted that practice methods varied widely. A woman sent in an entry for the shot put and listed her place of Competition As a on the Between 900 and 1,000 athletes will compete in the trials Viator said. Those who do like Joyner Kersee and Carl Lew is will have qualifying Marks that can be substantiated. Midnight saturday was the final deadline for submitting those Marks. Verification was a problem for Many like the Man who timed himself with a Stopwatch in the 100 meters. He listed his time As 10.39. However tire qualifying time for the 100 is 10.38. One other problem it has to be electronic timing. Running with a hand held Stopwatch did no to do it. . Boxing trials the 6-foot Forrest trailed the 5-5 Johnston a pan american games Champion 21-20 after two rounds then rallied with right hands to the head. Johnston who lost to Forrest on Points in the 1991 . Championships final had built his Lead on left Hooks. A if it had gone the other Way i have cried about it a Forrest said. Quot it could have gone either Way a Wheeler said after his decision Over Robinson was booed. A i can to take anything away from him a said Robinson who landed a lot of body punches. A they done to seem to score body punches the three Man jury whose score is used if there is a computer malfunction favored Wheeler 3-0. The 12 trials champions will meet most noteworthy opponents in the Box offs which will determine the olympic team june 26-28 at Phoenix. There will be six bouts each june 26-27. If a trials Champion wins he is on the team. If he loses there will be another bout june 28, with the Winner going to Barcelona. Most noteworthy opponents were selected by a committee and were not necessarily runners up in the trials. Other winners in saturdays finals were Sergio Reyes marines at Camp Lejeune ., 119 Pepe Reilly Glendale calif., 147 Jeremy Williams Long Beach calif., 178, and Dannell Nicholson Chicago 201. Most noteworthy opponents selected saturday were Bradley Martinez army at fort Huah Uca ariz., 106 Sean Fletcher Navy at Norfolk va., 119 Jesse Briseno Kalamazoo mich., 147 Demoss 165 Terry Mcgroom Chicago 178, and Bobby Harris Worcester 201. Fletcher replaces Paul Ayala who declined to be the most noteworthy opponent for Reyes. Ayala out pointed Fletcher 29-26 in the semifinals. Fletcher has beaten Reyes in their last two meetings. The most noteworthy opponents picked sunday were Clayton 112 Robinson 125 Patrice Brooks St. Louis 132 Johnston 139 Echols 156, and Edward Escobado Mckinney Texas super heavyweight tac Legal reps set to attend Reynolds hearing Indianapolis a track and Fields National governing body announced sunday it will Send Legal representatives to wednesdays Federal court hearing involving suspended 400-meter world record Holder Butch Reynolds. Tacos representatives will attempt to advise the court on the Issue of Reynolds participating in this weeks . Olympic trials at new Orleans. The decision by the executive committee of the athletics Congress followed a 65-minute meeting held sunday night the organization said. Reynolds the 1988 olympic Silver medallist was suspended for two years by the International Amateur athletic federation after allegedly testing positive for steroids following a meet in August 199h
