European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday december 7, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 1 clippers dive at record continues Aba by the associated press Robert Parish who played three sea sons under Bill Fitch at Boston knows his former coach likes a Challenge. Fitch certainly is in the right place at the Helm of the wingless los Angeles clip pers .,.- some of us Are just gluttons for punishment Parish the Charlotte Center said monday night after the visiting Hor nets routed los Angeles 115-83, making the clip pers 16, one shy of the Aba record for worst thing about Bill is that he always thrives and blossoms in situations like this. He seems to be motivated by re building a program and getting it off the v a in his first season with the clippers Fitch has t gotten them one centimetre off the ground eclipsing his personal re Cord of a 15 Start with the expansion Cleveland Cavaliers As a Rookie Aba coach in 1970. He has since gone on to coach More games than any coach in league history. For some reason this situation was very attractive to him Parish said after the hornets posted their most lopsided Road win in team history. This was a situation that needed a firm hand to get everything to come together and he seems to be drawn to situations like that. But other than that i Don t know Why he came in the Only other Aba games monday night new York beat Philadelphia 101 96 in overtime and new Jersey rallied to beat Chicago 99-94. Los Angeles tries to end its string of futility and avoid tying the 17 Start coach Bill Fitch rubs his eyes As the los Angeles clippers 16 lose another game. By the expansion Miami heat in 1988 game tuesday night at Sacramento. On wednesday against the Milwaukee Bucks at the los Angeles sports Arena. The Bucks carried a modest losing Streak of their own seven games into their the clippers loss gave them a fran Chise record 20th consecutive defeat stretching Back to last be approached every game the same Way but we just have these slumps in games that we can t overcome right now Center Matt fish said. Everybody s so frustrated. We All know the Streak is hanging Over us and we All Don t want to be remembered that hornets did t want the clippers Streak to end monday we did t come out Here thinking about being the first team that loses to them said Larry Johnson who led the hornets with 18 Points. I admit that teams come in Here and that s on their mind not to be the first team the clip pers get Jet win against. But it s not some thing you concentrate on. They Are struggling right now but it s All about chemistry. Theyva got some Tal ent Over the 83 Points was a season Low for the clippers. A Philadelphia came Back nicely from a 10-Point deficit in the fourth Quarter Burthen managed Only one Field goal in Over time. John Starks had five of his 16 Points in overtime and Charles Smith scored four of his 20 Points in the extra period for visiting new York. Patrick Ewing led the kicks with 25 Barros paced the 76ers with 22 Points. " nets 99 bulls 94 new Jersey rallied from a 19-Pointhalftime deficit and snapped a four game losing Streak by winning at Chicago. Arron Gilhorn playing extended min utes due to an injury to Derrick Coleman got the nets Back into the game in thenh a Quarter by scoring 11 of his 24points. V. / ,." a use i is confirmed by Stasi by Larry Siddons new York a olympic Star Kristin Otto and other members of East Germany s record shattering women swimming teams were part Ofa systematic doping program according to secret police records published in an american december Issue of swimming world carries results from the Stasi the East German secret police showing Otto Winner of six Gold medals at the 1983 olympics with steroid Levels almost three times the limit needed to trigger a positive also quoted a chemist familiar with the Stasi documents As saying they prove that every top East German athlete used performance enhancing drugs administered at scientifically determined inter Vals to avoid drug tests. Otto s ratio of testosterone to elites tos Terone of 17-1 topped a list of test re sults from aug. 9,1989, that also included world class swimmers Daniela hunger 12.1dagmar Hase 10-1 and Heik Friedrich 8.1according to Stasi documents a quoted in the Magazine. Anything Over a 1 ratio is considered illegal under doping guidelines set by the International olympic committee. Otto had More testosterone in Hertha the entire starting team of the dal Las cowboys said Phillip Whitten the Magazine s editor in chief and author of the article. It s no wonder she was a Leto win six Gold medals at the Seoul olym _ Whitten to Aid that although Otto has Long ago retired from swimming it was important to publicize the findings be cause of drug tests that Are now finding chinese swimmers using steroids. _. _ old East German coaches have helped set up the chinese swimming programs. I can t believe that the chinese would be so Sloppy but i m Happy that they were because they were caught Whitten said in a Telephone interview from his of fice in Sedona Arizona. A copy of the Stasi document accompanying the article showed the swimmers tests with the German word positive after each. The report was signed by Clausnitzer director of East Ger Many s Central doping control Laboratory. I,._ East Germany dominated women s swimming in the 1970s and 80s, with stars such As Otto and Kornelia ende routinely winning Gold medals and then passing drug tests. Only one top East German swimmer 1988 olympic Silver medallist Astrid Strauss Ever failed a doping examination and that was at a National championship in 1992, after Germany had been United following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. For the last three years reports Ija Sedon Stasi files and personal recollections have outlined a wide state supported system of German athlete performances through outlawed drugs. But swimming world said the documents it obtained through an unidentified source were the first to detail the pro Gram and include such High ranking ath letes As Otto. The Magazine also quoted or. Warner i Franke a German biochemist and Mem Ber of a National commission investigating Stasi files As saying that the police documents prove without a doubt that every single East German world class athlete was the Magazine offered no documentation to support Franke s assertion. Franke was also quoted As saying East German scientists administered drugs on the basis of clearance curves which predicted when the last traces of steroids would leave an athlete s system. In
