European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Top ranked teams upset by the associated press it s Tough being no. 1 both no 1 teams in men s and women s College basketball lost monday night. Kansas fell 68-64 to Kansas state in Lawrence kan., less than a Day after As suming the top ranking. Tennessee no. 1 among the women lost 87-77 to Rutgers in Piscataway . Kansas 16-2which won the preseason nit and has the most wins in Divi Sion i was beaten when Anthony Beane see pages 30 and 33 for More College basketball hit a floating one hander from the Lane with 12 seconds left then  out come with a pair of free throws. The Jay Hawks who for two weeks Las season held the no. 1 ranking became the fourth no. 1 men s team to lose this season. North Carolina last week s top team lost its first game after becoming . It Means absolutely nothing Kansas coach Roy Williams said. I would just As soon we did t have any polls. It s jus something for you Guys to write about and a ridiculous waste of time. It does t mean  Rutgers became the first a ranked team in Mcaa women s basketball history to defeat a no. 1 team during the regu Lar season. Caroline Deroose scored a career High 35 Points and Rutgers held off a late rally by the lady vols 14-1 the stars and stripes a ports january 19,1994 Page 36 Lillehammer to balance o new infer games by Doug Mellgren Lillehammer Norway a the hosts of the Winter olympics love the outdoors from the ice and Stone of their wild mountains to the serenity of their forests. Norwegians Are proud of their Viking heritage craftsmanship and modern technology. They worry about the environment enjoy Winter sports and adore their skiing and skating heroes. All of that shows in Lillehammer s painstaking preparations for the feb. 12 27 Winter games from a giant sports see Page 34 for olympic schedule Hall that looks like an overturned Viking ship to the events symbols based on an ancient Rock carving of a skier found in Northern Norway. This Small Oil Rich country on the Northern fringe of Europe has spent $1 billion not counting roads and related projects to get ready. For Petter Moshus the chief designer for the Lillehammer olympic organizing committee achieving the look of the Lillehammer games meant balancing old and new. And it meant protecting the special Charm of Lillehammer a town of 23,000 with carefully preserved wooden houses from the 1800s and Cobblestone walking streets now packed with Snow. Lillehammer 110 Miles North of Oslo Long has been a popular vacation spot As Well As a Colony for artists and writers. We wanted to give Lillehammer an identity and we had to do that while protecting its special character Moshus said. Everything had to be built to Fitin " Lillehammer and the other Small olympic towns on the shores of Norway largest Lake Kjosa and in the Gudbrand Dalen Valley Are steeped i tradition. It s a Region of trolls and Vikings log houses and Mountain farms ice and Snow tame Reindeer and wild Moose the Northern lights and ice sculptures Wood and lots of Stone. The basis for the look of the games is All that and was inspired by nature Moshus said. The medals Are made of Stone the Winner s podium is made from ice the pictographs for the events Are based on a 4,000-year-pld Rock carving the maps Are made  he said the venues wore built to fit into the landscape and minimize Environ mental damage. Traditional materials such  Stone and heavy wooden beams were used. We wanted to make an olympics the Way norwegians wanted it to look not to make one based on what we thought the in of. Vvs ,.ii Wev is. To Duncan Kennedy of the . Luge team adjusts his helmet in oberhoff Germany where the americans Are training for the olympics. Rest of the world would like Moshus said. The world seems to like it anyway. Lillehammer its venues and its designs have won International Praise. Norway is a Long narrow country of 4.3 million people that stretches above the Arctic Circle. Norwegians who claim to have invented skiing As a sport thrive in their wild terrain. Nature is important to norwegians from the ones choosing to live on the sides of mountains on their isolated farms to City dwellers taking their sunday Tours in the country Moshus said. Sometimes reflecting the past with modern touch or capturing the tone of nature meant developing new technology. For example thick wooden beams of up to 100 Yards Long which look like the ribs of a ship support the roofs of the Viking ship Hall in the town of Hamar and the Haakons Hall in Lille Hammer. The beams were the longest of their kind Ever built. They had to develop a new technology to do it and now that is an Export item Moshus said. The same applied to the olympic Cav Ern Hall in the town of gjovik where work Crews used advanced technology to hollow out a Mountain so they could build a hockey rink inside. Although organizers admit it is impossible to Host an environmentally Friendly olympics because of the development needed Lillehammer has tried to limit the visual and ecological Impact. The parallel ski jumps at the Birker Beiner ski stadium overlooking Lille Hammer follow the contours of the Mountain so As not to Tower above the hilltops. Children removed thousands of wild Flowers during the construction so they could be replanted. When environmentalists complained that the Viking ship Hall on the Shore of Lake Kjosa intruded on a nesting area for Birds organizers changed the plans and pulled the building Back. Moshus said Norway which wanted to showcase some buildings did not especially want to build the Bob and luge track North of town. So designers made to unobtrusive by having it weave through the heavy Forest. If fact contractors at the bobsled track and other venues faced heavy fines if they Cut Down or damaged Trees that were marked As protected by ribbons. Organizers used High tech heat pumps and insulation to Cut Energy consumption non polluting chemicals in Cooling systems and even developed a special fuel to reduce pollution from the olym Pic flame. Most of the signs Hung from Viking swords on wooden polls Are made from paper so they can be recycled. Instead of paper plates organi ers made most of them from potato starch for use As Fertil Izer after the games. Moshus said virtually All licensed olympic products Are made from such materials As Stone Wood Wool and Pew Ter All used since Viking times. That May be Why we have sold five times More than expected he said the official Lillehammer olympic logo is based on the Northern lights some times seen in the Winter sky and Snow crystals. Even the manhole covers and Cobblestone streets Are decorated with the olympic rings