Monday, February 9, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Snow continues to plague Winter Olympics
The Associated Press
NAGANO, Japan — A quick look at the Winter Olympics:
CLAP FOR THE DUTCHMAN
Gianni Romme, broke his world record in 5,000-meter speedskating by 8 1/2 seconds, en route to a gold medal. Romme won in 6 minutes, 22.20 seconds, six seconds ahead of silver-medal Dutch teammate Rintje Ritsma.
Snow and winds up to 25 mph are expected tomorrow in the mountains near Nagano City. The men's downhill already had been postponed for three days because of
snow. In the city, the forecast was for light snow and temperatures around freezing.
SNOWBOARDING
Ross Rebagliati of Canada won the first Olympic men's giant slalom snowboarding gold medal with a time of 2 minutes, 3.96 seconds. Thomas Prugger of Italy won the silver in 2:03.98 and Ueli Kestenholz of Switzerland the bronze in 2:04.08. Chris Klug of Aspen, Colo., second after the first run, and Jasey-Jay Anderson of Canada, the first-round leader, both fell in the second runs and finished out of medal contention.
FREESTYLE SKIING
Americans held solid metal prospects after elimination rounds of men's and women's moguls. Donna Weinbrecht, of West Milford, N.J., was tied for first and Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo., tied for third in the women's event. Jonny Moseley of Tiburon, Calif., was first in the men's. Finals are Wednesday.
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
Russian Olaa Danilova won the women's 15-kilometer classical cross-country ski race, the first gold medal of the Nagano Winter Games. The top American finisher was Kerrin Petty, more than 5 minutes behind the winner.
ICE HOCKEY
World champion Canada opened the women's ice hockey tournament with a 12-0 victory against Japan. They outshot Japan 64-3. Finland defeated Sweden 6-0 in first Olympic women's hockey game. In men's hockey, Austria squandered a two-goal lead, with 1:09 remaining to tie Kazakstan 5-1.
LUGE
With his new yellow bootss flashing, Georg Hackl of Germany set the pace after the first two runs of men's singles luge. Hackl had to withstand a protest from the U.S. and Canadian teams about his boots. Wendel Suckel, aiming for the first U.S. luge medal, was sixth going into the final runs today.
Jordan vs. Bryant: All-Star spectacle
Old guard wins war, but youngest All-Star claims some battles
The Associated Press
Michael Jordan walked away from his last All-Star game with the victory, the adulation and the MVP trophy.
It was a fitting finalne — if that's what it really was — for the greatest player ever to play the game.
"Without a doubt, I think I'm the best basketball player I can be right now," Jordan said after winning his third MVP
award after the East defeated the West 135-141 yesterday.
"This day was going to happen
sooner or later," Jordan said. "If I walk away from the game, I want to walk out knowing I can still play."
He certainly can. And he sounded like he certainly will retire.
In a crossroads game between All-Stars of this generation and the next before a celebrity-studded crowd at the arena known as the Mecca of basketball, Jordan seized the spotlight and faced off against Kobe Bryant, the youngest All-Star in NBA history.
Jordan, called the All-Star of AllStars by commissioner David Stern as he received his award, led all scorers with 23 points. Bryant led the West with 18.
But the day was so much more than the 34-year-old Jordan outscoring the 19-year-old Bryant by five points.
It was Jordan clearing everyone out so he could bring Bryant one-on-one, then losing the kid with a head fake and scoring on a finger roll that left Bryant grinning in shame.
It was Bryant coming right back at him, drilling a pair of 3-pointers.
and barely executing a behind-the-back fast break dribble ending in perhaps the first transition hook shot in an All-Star game.
It was Jordan jamming and
Jordan: Named MVP of the All-Star game.
entire fourth quarter while Bryant stayed seated in what appeared to be an act of defiance.
And finally, it was Jordan of the Bulls and Bryant of the Lakers embracing at center court after the final buzzer.
me. It was a good battle. He attacked. The hype was me vs. him. I was just glad that I was able to fight him off."
"I really didn't expect to come in here and win the MVP award." Jordan said. "I just wanted to make sure Kobe didn't dominate
West coach George Karl said he held Bryant out for the final 18 minutes because he wanted to give the other All-Stars their minutes.
But it appeared to be an effort to leave the final act to Jordan, who reiterated before and after the game that he would retire if the Chicago Bulls did not retain coach Phil Jackson.
"I'll say it once more," Jordan said. "If Phil is not in Chicago, I'm not playing. Nowhere. How many times do you want me to say it?"
Jordan was 10-for-18 with eight assists, six rebounds and three steals.
Bryant finished 7-for-16 from the field with six rebounds and two steals.
"We knew he was going to come out and play," Penny Hardaway said. "When he plays, he's going to go all-out. And he showed what he can do today.
"I think this was his last one," Hardaway said.
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