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University Daily Kansan, February 15, 1984
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United Press International
SARAJEVO. Yugoslavia—Britain's i dance Torvill and Dean perform in the Olympic ice dance competition. The couple won the gold medal yesterday, receiving the maximum score of 6 from all nine judges for their artistic interpretation of "Boloer."
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U.S. figure skater virtual shoe-in for gold medal
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SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Merely a step or two short of perfection, Scott Hamilton put a virtual lock on an Olympic figure-skating gold medal yesterday, and only hours later American skaters Rosalynn James and Zayak were to begin not-so-friendly for the women's crown.
Between the two occasions, British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean displayed their own definition of perfection with a precise free skating performance that gave them the gold medal in ice skating. They scored a score of 6 points from all nine judges for their artistic interpretation of "Boloer."
Natalia Bestermaniana and Andrei Bukin were second, followed by Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomenarenko. Carol Fox and Richard Dalley of the United States were fifth.
On a disappointing note for the United States, after an earlier lackluster performance by the Mahre twins in the giant slalom, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert fell from third place to fourth in the ice dance. The Soviet Union earned both the silver and bronze medals.
three medals with 21 of the 40 events completed in the Winter Olympics.
At least two medals, and possibly three, could come in the women's figure skating singles, which were scheduled to begin yesterday at midnight CST. In addition to Summers, the reigning world champion, and Zayak, the 1982 champion, the United States was represented by Tiffany Chin, who was second behind Summers and ahead of Zayak in the recent U.S. Nationalals.
Thus, the United States still has only
Hamilton, the three-time world champion who hasn't lost since 1980, stumbled ever so slightly on the camel spin during his short program at the Zetra Arena. But he still goes into tomorrow night's free skating final with a comfortable lead over Jean-Christophe Simond of France.
"I got a little excited out there, and the channel wasn't exactly what I wanted to be."
Hamilton said he had been unable to warm up properly because he had been so involved in other activities of the Olympics.
"So, it was 'calm down, let's remember what we're out here for' and I went downstairs and got mad," he
said. "I got really mad and all the veins in my head were standing out. I was looking really pretty."
Earlier, Phil Mahre, winner of the overall World Cup championship the last three years, could do no better than slam. His brother Steve was 17th.
Max Julew of Switzerland, taking heart from the whistling of some 12,000 Yugoslavs who envisioned a gold medal for their own country, was the surprise winner of the giant slalom, the first alpine event of this Olympics for the men. The Yugoslavs, nevertheless, had to take the silver on a rugged performance. Juure Franko. Andreas Wenzel of Lechtenstein earned the bronze.
Franko had the fastest time of the second run, and the medal was the first ever for Yugoslavia in the Winter Games.
Also winning gold medals yesterday were Canadian Gaetan Baucher in the men's 1,000-meter speedskate and Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway in the 10-kilometer biathlon. Nick Thometz, Minnetonka, Minn., fifth in the 500-meter speedskate, again missed on a medal by finishing fourth.
Phil Mahre, who had maintained that he no longer was as "hungry" as he once was, never was a factor in the success of the project, as typical of what he had been doing all
season. Aluding to the fact that he dominated World Cup standings for the previous three years, Maheh indicated that Olympics came just a year too late for him.
"It's bad timing, I guess," he said. "They should have had this race last year or the year before. We haven't been in form when it came time for the Olympic Games, and that's all there is to it."
Although he remains unwins this year, Mahre thought he would come up with something else.
"I came into the Olympics, and I wanted to ski well here," he said. "I was confident. I wasn't uptight today. I thought I would ski well and put things together, but it just hasn't happened. It has been frustrating. Pressurizing the skis real well, so I just don't ski good, solid runs, and so it costs me."
Steve Mahre, winner of the giant slam world championship in 1982, almost fell during his first run and then "tried too hard from there." he said.
Although Yugoslavia missed out on the gold by three-tenths of a second in the slalom, it still was a joyous day for the host country as Boris Strel finished fifth and Bojan Krizaj ninth for the best team showing of the day.
Julen's time for the two runs was 2:41.18.
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