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8A Monday, Feb. 9, 1976 Lorry Woodburn Ed.tor Soviet Skier Loses Medal; U.S. Pulls Surprise in Alpine INNSBRUCK (AP) -American Alpine skier Philip Mahre moved into surprisingly strong medal contention today, after the sixth day of the 12th Winter Olympic Games was marred by a doping incident which cost a Russian skier her medal. Mahre, of White Pass, finished fourth in the first run of the giant slalom with a time of 1 minute, 45.58 seconds. He trailed defending champion Gustavo Thoeni of Italy, who clocked 1:44.19, and a pair of Swiss skiers, Ernst Good and Heini Hemmi.

The second run of the giant slalom will be held Tuesday wten combined time over the two runs will deter- iT0ne whether he can move into the contention. like the hill a lot better over he said, looking forward to race on a nearby course. think going to be a good run. a little steeper with not as much side hill. have to make the gates closer together, and it will come out a lot quicker.

It will be a lot twin brother, Steven Mahre, was 14th in 1:47.90, and Greg Jones of Tahoe City, was 16th in 1:48.09. today, the national Olympic Committee announced it had stripped Soviet skier Galina Kulakova of the bronze medal she won Saturday in the five-kilometer cross-country race. A medical examination showed she had taken a drug called Ephidrine, banned by the IOC. However, the Russians retained the medal when it was awarded to Mrs. teammate, Nina Baldicheva.

And the IOC said Mrs. Kula- medical commission and rules, we must enforce Mrs, Kulakova, a veteran of more than 10 competition, did not appear at the medals presentation Sunday night. Soviet officals said at the time that she had been detained by traffic. It was later learned, however, that she had been summoned to a medical commission hearing. It was the first such incident of these Games but was not un- after some confusion over the third-place standing.

Winkler originally had been awarded the bronze, but then Rauno Mittenen was moved up Young, the sensational speed skater from Detroit, took her third medal Saturday with a third in the 1,000 meters. The surprising performance kova would not be banned from precedented. In the 1972 Sum- further competition. The 33-year-old Mrs. Kulakova, a five-time world champion, had been suffering from a cold and apparently took the drug without knowing it was forbidden, said the IOC Medical Commission president, Prince Alexandre de Merode of Belgium.

Ephidrine is a nasal decongestant. It is a commonly used substance on race horses in the United States, but illegal. Yet it wears off after three days-so if a hcvse has a cold, it can be given the drug and raced three days later. was such a small amount that it seemed almost an injustice to take the medal Prince de Merode said. if we are to have a mer Games at Munich, American swimmer Rick DeMont was stripped of his gold medal when he took a banned drug to ease i his asthma.

East Germany, meanwhile, continued its assault on the Soviet medals lead, picking up a fifth gold with a victory by Ulrich Wehling in the i Nordic combined event today. The East Germans also have four silver and three bronze for I 12 medals. The Soviets have i seven gold, two silver and five bronze for a total of 14. The United States is third with six- one gold, three silver and two bronze. Urban Hettich of West Germany won the silver medal and Konrad Winkler of East Germany finally took the bronze Federal Supported Sports Group Might Be Answer to third.

Officials later reversed by Miss Nelson and the strong themselves and gave the bronze challenge by the young Philip back to Winkler. i Mahre could go a long way in The Nordic combines a 70- i boosting the United States to its meter ski Wehling best total medal count since the won a 15-kilome-11932 Winter Olympics in Lake ter (9.3-mile) ski i Placid, N.Y. That year, the Hetich won today in 48:01.55. Americans won six gold med- Jim Galanes of Ht'attleboro, als. finishing with was the top U.S.

finisher in their count so far in these the 33-man field, placing I7th. Games. Mike Devecka of Bend, The Russians won two more was 28fh and Walter Malmquist i golds on Sunday as double gold of Post Mills, was 29th. medal winner Tatiana Averina On Sunday, Cindy Nelson of won the speed skat- Lutsen, gave the United ing race and Nikolai Sajukov States its second bronze with I won the 15-kilometer cross- her surprising finish in the: country event, downhill. The only chance for the happy the bronze I Americans to increase their said the 20-year-old da-1 medal count today comes this redevil after finishing behind evening when Colleen Rosi Mittermaier of West Ger-jand Jim Millns, both of Colora- many, and Brigitte do Springs, pair in the fi- Totschnig.

I hope to get a nals of the ice dancing corn- silver or a gold before I leave; petition. The Russian pair of Ludmila If Miss Nelson could win Pakhomova and Aleksandr medals in both the slalom on Gorshkov has an apparent Wednesday and the giant slalom Friday, she could become only the second American to win three medals. Sheila WARDEN STOPS ONE U.S. goalie James Warden (30) of Altadena. drops to his knees Sunday to block a shot during the United States Czechoslovakia Olympic hockey game in the Group A tournament at Innsbruck.

Gary Ross of Roseau, sprawls on ice at left. Czech forward Dlilan Novy is at center. The Czechs defeated the LLS. (AP Wirephoto) Czechs Blank Americans U.S. leers Chances For Medal Look Dim strangehold on the gold medal, but the second-place Soviet pair, Irina Moiseeva and Andrey Minenkov, are vulnerable.

OLYMPICS WASHINGTON (AP) A single organization, created under the aegis of the federal government, might provide the leadership necessary to pull together all the fragmented parts making up amateur athletics in the United States, says a presidential commission studying the subject. The Commission op Olympic Sports says ama- tqur athletics in the country to be structured and suggests the creation of a single, comprehensive organization to piovide leadership, direction, co-ordination and support necessary. 2 2-member panel, created last June with a charter and a federal budget of stopped short of proposing that the conflicts be solved by federal intervention although it does suggest at one point that the sports could be placed within either the federal departments of state, interior or health, education and welfare. But the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee reacted angrily to the suggestion of a new organization and the implication that the USOC was not the answer to amateur problems.

commission made a very thorough survey and dealt with the broad spectrum of said Philip Krumm, president of the USOC. the answer to those problems is something else. For instance, there is the suggestion that the answer might be a super national sports body to govern amateur sports. for Olympic sports, who could do it better than the U.S. Olympic we need for improvement of our Olympic image is not a new organization but facilities and funds for training.

Whether it comes from the government or private interests, we are badly in need of facilities and development funds to keep pace with the rest of the Krumm said. But that was not the conclusion of the Commission on Olympic Sports. There is, at present time, no truly effective system for amateur athletics in the says the report, the result of the first five months work. there are numerous organizations that function independently in amateur sports. many, if not all, of these organizations are capable of meeting their own organizational goals and to some degree meeting the needs of athletes who participate in their programs.

the overall system for amateur sports in this country is characterized by its voids as much as by its positive programs. As a consequence, the resources which are devoted to amateur sports are not used as effectively or as efficiently as they might be and the benefits to be derived from amateur sports are not as great as they should Gerald B. Zornow, board chairman of Eastman Kodak Co. and chairman of the commission, told President Ford in a covering letter that the fact-finding activities during the past five months made it very evident that the current structure of amateur sports is fragmented, ill-defined and INNSBRUCK (AP) Medals tabulation after today's early events in the 12th Winter Olympic Games (table reflects oold, silver, bronze and total medals). Positions based on gold medals won: Soviet Union East (Jermanv United States West Germany Finland Austria Switzerland Canada Norway Italy Nordic Men combined jump and 15- Kiiometer cross 1 Ulrich Wehling.

East Germany, 423.39 points. 2, Ur- pan Hettich, West Germany. 4is 90 3 Konrad Winkler, East Germany, 417,47 4 Rauno Miettlnen, Finland, 411,30. 5, Claus Tuchscherer, East Germany, 409.51. 6, Union, 406 44 7, Valeriy Kaoaev, Soviet Union, 406.14.

8, Tom Sandberg, Norway, 405.53. 9, Pal Schiebie, Norway, 402,59. 10, Erkki Kilpinen, Finland, 402,26. Galanes, Brattleboro, Devecka, Ore. 47 Malmquist, Post Skating Sergei Volkov.

Soviet Union, 19.5 ordinals. 2, John Curry, Great Britain, 21.5. 3, Vladimir Kovalev, Soviet Union, 27.0. 4, Jan Hoffmann, East Germany, 29.0. 5, David Santee.

Oak Park, 50.5. 6, Ron Shavjr, Canada, 60.0. 7, Toller Cranston, Canada, 67.5. 8, Zdenek Paz- direk, Czechoslovakia, 76.0. 9, Minoru Sano, Japan, 79.0.

10, Laszio Vaida, Hungary, 96.5. Also; 11, Terry Kubicka, Rockford. 94.5. Nordic Skiing Men's 15-kilometer cross Nikolay Baiukov, Soviet Union, 43 58 47 2, Evgebiv Beliaev, Soviet Union, 44:01.10. 3, Arto Koivisto, Finland, 44:19.25.

4, Ivan Garanin, Soviet Union, 44:41.98. 5, Ivar Forrrx), Norway, 45:29.11. 6, Bill Koch, Guilford, 45:32.22. 7 Georg Zipfel, West Germany, 45:38.10. 8, Odd Marfinsen, Norway, 45:41.97.

9, Gert- Dietmar Klause, East Germany, 45:42.97. 10, Juha Mieto, Finland, 45:46.27. Also: 38, Tim Caldwell, Putney, 47:33.59. 53, Ron Yeager, Durango, 48:58.16. 55, Doug Peterson, Minneapolis, 49:00.98.

Alpine Skiing Women's Rosi maier, West Germany, 1:46.16. 2, Brigitte Totschnig, Austria, 1:46.68. 3, Cindv Nelson, Lutsen, 1:47.50. 4, Andrea Nicola Spiess, Austria, 1:47.71. 5, Daniele Debernard, France, 1:48.48.

6, Jacqueline Rouvler, France, 1:48.58. 7, Bernadette Zurbriggen, Switzerland, 1:48.62. 8, Marlies Oberholzer, Switzerland, 1:48.68. 9, AAonika Kaserer, Austria, 1:48.81. 10, Irene Epple, Germany, 1:48.91.

Also; 14, Susan Patterson, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1:49,37. 26, Leslie Smith, Killington, 1:52.98. speed Skating Women's 3,000 Tatiana Averina, Soviet Union, 4:45.19. 2, Andrea scherlich, East Germany, 4:45.23. 3, Lisbeth Korsmo, Norway, 4:45.24.

4, Karin Kessow, East Germany, 4:45.60. 5, Ines Bautzmann, East Germany, 4:46.67. 6, Sylvia Filipsson, Sweden, 4:48.15. 7, Nancy Swider, Park Ridge, 4:48.46. 8, Sylvia Burka, Canada, 4:49.04 9, Slitje van der Lende, Holland, 4:50.86.

10. Erwine Rys, Poland, 4:50.95. Also: 11, Beth Heiden, Madison, Wis 4:51.67. 17, Cindy Seikkula, Minneapolis, 4:57.57. Ulrich Wehling, East Germany, 262-264 feet, 225.5 points.

2, Rauno Miettin, Finland, 246-258, 219.9 3, Claus Tuchsche, East Germany, 259-258, 218.7. 4, Konrad Winkler, East Germany, 253251, 213.9. 5, Yuji Katsuro, Japan, 249-246, 209.8. 6, Stefan Hula, Poland, 246-253, 205.9. 7, Pal Schietne, Norway, 249-249, 204.4.

8, Erkki Keipinen, Finland, 243-246, 203.1. 9, Valeriy Kapaev, Soviet Union, 246-235, 202.9. 10, Rogerka Lustenbe, Switzerland, 245-245, 202.5. Also: 25, Jim Galanes, Brattleboro, 233-240, 184 1. 26, Walter Malquist, Post Mills, 233-230, 181.3.

32, Michael Devecka, Bend, 210-200, 151.6. Alpine Skiing Men's giant slalom, first of two Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, 1:44.19. 2, Ernst Good, Switzerland, 1:44.60. 3, Heini Hemmi, Switzerland, 1:45.41. 4, Phil Mahre, White Pass, 1:45.58.

5, Piero Gros, Italy, 1:45.69. 6, Engelhard Pargaetzi, Switzerland, 1:46.16. 7, Hans Hinterseer, Austria, 1:46.46. 8. Ingemar Stenmark, Sweden, 1:46.51.

9, Fausto Radici, Italy, 1:46.87. 10, Franco Bieler, Italy, 1:47.00. Also: 14, Steven Mahre, White Pass, 1:47.80. 16, Greg Jones, Tahoe City, 1:48.09. 22, Cary Adgate, Boyne City, 1:48.64.

INNSBRUCK (AP) United States hockey team hasj run out of losses, but not out nearly impossible challenges. Stung by two straight losses in the Winter medal i tournament, the young and de- itermined squad of collegians i must defeat a team which crushed it twice two weeks ago; or see its medal hopes die. The key game is Tuesday! night against Finland. The win-! ner will emerge as the favorite: to win the bronze medal, and the Finns are favored. These same two teams met two weeks ago in Finland, and the Americans lost by 9-2 and 9-3.

The Americans played their second strong game in a row Sunday, but lost 5-0 to medal favorite Czechoslovakia I as brilliant goalie Jiri Holecekj scored the first shutout of the! six-nation tournament. The Russians, like the Czechs undefeated in their first two' games, had turned back the' stubborn U.S. team 6-2 Friday. On Sunday, the Soviets clobbered Poland 16-1 to take the tournament lead on an aggregate goal count. The as they are affectionately known in In nsbruck, average only 21 and are neophytes by European standards.

Their third major test in five days will be Tuesday night against the Finns, who defeated West Germany 53 Sunday after dropping a tight 2-1 match in the first round to the Czechs. Finns are pretty U.S. coach Bob John- Time Favors American Duo In Quest of Pairs Crown son said with intended understatement in assessing his chances. Before the OljTupics, the Finns beat the Soviets in an exhibition. While vastly improved over the hopelessly outclassed U.S.

squad at last hockey tournament in West Germany, the current team doe.sn't skate as well or as fast as the European elite teams. Johnson, Univer-; sity of Wisconsin coach, a' knowledged this Sunday when he said, proud of: my team, but we lack some-j what the of the Czech Coacii Karel Gut, in a diplomatic assessment of the! Americans, called them ambitious team but they are young and are not quite as good as we His assistant, Jan Starsi. wa frank before the contest. can beat the time, any place and always' he boasted, as good as; any team in the North Ameri can pro To beat the Finns, the -Americans must get their combination passing working from the first period so that genuine scoring chances will open up on breaks. Against the Czechs, the U.S.

team needed more than a period to get their offense going and this proved too late against a goalie of world class calibre. Tho -Americans held the Czechs to a 2-0 lead through the first two periods, but fell down to a three-goal third period rage The defense, led by goalie Jim Warden, was strong through those first two periods. needed good goaltending and we got said Johnson. But it enough. iiolecek, 32.

a world class goalie, was brilliant, leading a defense that continually denied tne offense. Warden, who started for the injured Blaine Comstock, said a goal by Vladimir which gave the Czech team a 20 lead at 18:19 of the period turned the game around. know what happened. We wanted to go into the third period only one down. The goal gave them a lot of said the 21-year-old goalie from Altadena.

Calif. The Americans had a sputter- 1 ing offense in the first period with passing combinations broken up early by the strongly- checking Czechs. But in the second period, the American passes clicked, keeping Holecek under considerable pressure. The Americans had fine chances in the second and third periods but acrobatic performance fended off the as- i saults. Czechoslovakia 1 Uniled States 0 0 First Czechoslovakia, Novy (Bubla), 10 22.

0.14; Alleyn Bubla, 0.53, Harris. 3:23: Machac, 4 46. Dvorak, Sertich, 18:55 Second Czechoslovakia, Martinec, 15 19. 1 54 Taft, 8 38: Ross, 11:31: Machac. 12.16; Dobec, 12.31.

Third Czechoslovakia, Stastnv (Marlinec), 8:28 4, Czechoslovakia. Novae (Posoisil, Augusta), 11:14. 5. Czechoslovakia, Novy (Machaci, 14 48. 4:51: Hymanson, 10 00.

Martinec, 13 44. Novy, 58 07, Goalies: Czechozlovakia, Holecek. United Slates, Warden. INNSBRUCK (AP) Besides abundant talent, one thing the Lake Placid, N.Y. we win the young American figure skating gold medal tonight, we could diio of Randy Gardner and in said Miss Babi- Babilonia has is time.

15, of Mission Hills, Calif, formance" and aesthetics he their surprising fifth-j Many times, the only differ- wmid. make place finish which was really ence between the top figure skating teams is the amount of pressurized world class events they compete in. Skating in world championships and Olympics is not like a Sunday afternoon skate, and Miss Babi far from third and a bronze medal in the 12th Winter pairs figure skating competition Saturday, the two California teenagers began talkiiig about the 19C0 Games in INSIDE SPORTS fourth in freestyle to finish the overall competition in Sfth. judge on athletic per- easy or you jiram too But the young couple's performance can only win them points with the skating public, which had not expected such a high finish. The Babilonia- lonia and Gardner, 17, of LosiGardner team had finished 10th Angeles, can only profit from year ago at the world I beating and losing to the championships.

best. So in one year they jumped The best couple still I five places. Moving up four the Russian tandem of Irina i more places will be more difficult, but they do have four years in which to do it. the top as teams battle for post-season tournament positions lOA Big George McGinnis of the Philadelphia 76ers scores 38 points in NBA victory over TV SPORTS LOG iRodnina and Aleksandr Zaitsev. skated away with the Local prep basketball stand- ordin-i ijigs are It was second; straight Olympic title and thej first for her husband.

But the! Russian team is expected to! soon retire. i The next four fini.shers were! ligfhly bunched. The East Ger-i viso 11A couple of Romy Kermeri gram, hockey, cross-country skiing fl3) iand Rolf Oesterreich won thei uintfr o1 vMPirq. Cougars take Uiiver medal with 21 ordinals. speed uoinen's advantage of new Manuela round setup in City llockey were third tol kgr vsk aix League to become quick win- 3 rus- Sian team of Irina Opportunity Knocked Just In Time Cindy Has Bronze INNSBRUCK (AP) Cindy Nelson, on crutches fc-r the 1972 Olympics, was on skis for these 12th Winter Games and she made the most of her opportunity Sunday by winning a bronze medal in the downhill event.

is considered one of the two most versatile Alpine skiers in the world, carrying a top 10 rating in the slalom, giant slalom and her specialty, the downhill. World Cup leader Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany, winner of downhill, is the other skier who Miss Nelson, cheated out of ccnsistent in all three Alpine 1 0V70yi berth on the American Olympic; by a dislocated hip, zipped ver or a gold before I leave In- down the big Austrian she said, referring to tain Sunday in the time of 1 minute 47.50 seconds. The 20-year-old Miss Nelson had her problems in practice runs but was able to master the the two upcoming slalom races. Hanked eighth in World Cup points with 87, Miss Nelson failed to win a Cup race this season. She was rated as fourth-best downhiller after last course when it counted most.

World Cup season. She missed a gate and did not! Downhillers are considered finish her final training run daredevils of their sport, Saturday and, in four previous i constantly in danger of life and practice runs, she had st(jpped I limb as they duel gravity, bal- once to avoid a competitor, then had finished with the seventh, ninth and fourth fastest times. ance and fear in a frantic race to the finish. But Miss Nelson, who has 18 of her 20 years, says Rutgers keeps on winning but the Scarlet coach anything but happy as his tew picks up bad hab- Hs 12A and Aleksandr Vlasov was fourth with 35 ordinals. Just two ordinals from a bronze medal were Miss Babi- Ionia and "Gardner, who were buth cross-country relay (13) THITRSDAY SOU Wl.NTKR OLYMPICS: Speed skating, hockey, cross-country relay (13) FRIDAY 7:00 WINTER OLV.MPICS; freestyle skating, giant speed MEDAL FOR CINDY United States skier Cindy NeLson of Lutsen, laughs ann waves to spectators at.

the finish of the downhill Sunday after placing third in the event to win the bronze C)lym- pic medal. The course at Lizum near Innsbruck, Austria. (AP Wirephoto) is the third time in fear and winning mix. nine tries on this run that in control, vou made it all the way she have no said. made a mistake at skier said.

turn to get back on my line. Ijmean aren't going fast. It w'as going into the means you know what where I had made my doing. The minute you in the past and it cost me yourself, I make this Nelson, a powerful per- might as have never been tionm from Lutsen, on the COI Because you make it. I know.

done it. faster you are going, the sharper you have to be. Like driving a she said. driving at 30 miles an hour, easy. If going 75 or 80 downhill, and icy, and a schuss and there are turns in there, then you have to be sharper.

You have to get your timing just Miss Nelson learned her skiing on her resort slope near Lake Superior. The resort was developed by her grandfather and run by her ski-in- parents. Nelson, the third of five children, began racing at the age of 7. Four years later, she turned serious about competing when Austrian Heli was hired by her father to train the Lutsen Ski Team. was the first to let us know you have to train gates and do' dry-land conditioning to Miss Nelson it was just fun.

All of a sudden, he made it Her biggest disappointment was the hip injury that kept her competing in the 1972 IDiynipics, but she bounced back two years later to win her first World Cup race on the same mountain in Switzerlaift..