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| 502.1 | ref VOGON on VTX | OSL09::MAURITZ | DTN(at last!)872-0238; @NWO | Mon Feb 24 1992 09:09 | 13 |
| For those who are interested, Paul Ahlgren has done an excellent job
"reporting" the Olympics on the VTX system. Regrettably (but quite
naturally) this was under the "UK Sports News" section, and I was only
able to read the last 5 entries. (The name had thrown me off; not being
a cricket fan nor much interested in how "City" does against "United",
I tend to ignore that section the VOGON menu).
Paul---if you are listening/reading---the entries would do quite nicely
as a history of these olympics, assuming that you have the text in some
form that could be placed here.
Mauritz
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| 502.2 | Here they are. | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:39 | 19 |
| I will post those that I still have on my machine as the following
replies.
To conclude the Nordic performance :
Norway : Their best performance ever, 9 golds(!) total, everything
seemed to go their way.
Sweden : Can't we just forget it, 1 gold and 3 bronzes aren't much to
cheer about. In the past we had some real success in the cross-country
skiing events, but this time we got just a single bronze!
Finland : They won 2 out of three in the ski jumps. They had a good
skier in Likkarainen (Woman) and the (Men) relays team, that's about
it.
Denmark : They participated.
Paul
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| 502.3 | #1 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:39 | 101 |
| [Olympic report for the 1st and 2nd day of the Olympics]
The 16th Olympic winter games started on Saturday with a
magnificent show, with more than 3.000 people involved in
the spectacle. The French president Francois Mitterand
declared the games opened and the president of the organizing
comittee Jean-Claude Killy welcomed all the athletes. Former
french soccer star Michel Platini, had the honour of carrying
the olympic torch around the stadium, where he along with a
local boy lit the olympic fire that will burn throughout the
games. The opening is said to have costed an estimate of 130
millions french francs (~$20M) and if everything goes on in the
same style we're sure going to see a fantastic olympiad.
The first day of competition (except for three hockey games
played on saturday) was Austrias. First Patrik Ortlieb won
the Men's downhill racing, with G�nther Mader on third place
and a few hours later the veteran Ernst Vettori won the gold
in the 90-meter ski jumping event. In second place here we
found the young Martin Hollwarth.
[Men's Downhill Racing]
The Downhill racing has this year been dominated by the Swiss
skier Franz Heinzer who won the last three events in the World
Cup leading up to the Olympics. But the race track here did
not suit his kind of skier at all and he would end up way back
from the top. Instead Super-G specialists like G�nther Mader
Peter Accola, Marc Girardelli or Marcus Wasmeier was mentioned
as the favourites.
Patrik Ortlieb started first of all the racers, made a very good
run and noone was actually able to catch up with him. He himself
had said that the track didn't suit him very well but he made an
error free run and took Austria's first downhill victory this
season at the most convinient time. The other two medals was
taken by two other Super-G specialists. The silver went to
"home" boy Franck Piccard who once again showed that he is at
his best when it really matters. Third place went to G�nther
Mader. Marcus Wasmeier ended 4th.
1. Patrik Ortlieb, Austria
2. Franck Piccard, France
3. G�nther Mader, Austria
4. Marcus Wasmeier, Germany
[15 km Skiing, Ladies]
That one of the runners from the former Soviet Union would win
was no surprise to anyone, the only question was if it were
going to be Velbe who has dominated the sport this year or if
it were going to be Egorova.
The answer was clear already after half the distance when Egorova
had the lead with more than 40 seconds to her closest competitor.
At the end it was clear that she were playing in her own division
this day. She won with more than a minute's margin to runner up
(small surprise) Lukkarinen of Finland. Velbe ended up in third
place.
1. Ljubov Egorova, CIS
2. Marjut Likkarinen, Finland
3. Jelena Velbe, CIS
[Ski Jump, 90 meters]
It was a big day for the Austrians when veteran Ernst Vettori
won the Olympic gold. He did so with two very young athletes
taking silver and bronze. All three of the medalists are using
the so called "V"-style invented a few years back by the Swedish
jumper Jan Boklov (who himslef ended up in 47th place).
1. Ernst Vettori, Austria
2. Marcus Hollwarth, Austria
3. Toni Nieminen, Finland
[3000 meters speed skating, Ladies]
(I didn't see this one, no surprises however)
1. Gunda Niemann, Germany
2. H. Warnicke, Germany
3. E Hunyady, Austria
[Ice Hockey]
The only surprise after the first two days is that Canada had
such a hard time beating the home nation France. The most
intresting players to watch for in the tournament is Canadian
Eric Lindros and Swede Borje Salming who after 17 seasons in
the NHL is actually going to make his olympic debute at age
40.
Pool A : Sweden - Poland 7-2, Finland - Germany 5-1,
USA - Italy 6-3
Pool B : Canada - France 3-2, Chzechoslovacia - Norway 10-1
CIS - Switzerland 8-1
(CIS = Commonwelth of Independent States.)
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| 502.4 | #2 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:40 | 115 |
| [Olympic report from the 3rd day (10 Feb) of competition]
If the second day belonged to Austria the third one belonged
definately belonged to Norway. In one of the most impressive
"show-off's" ever the Norwegians took 4 out of the first 5
places in the Men's 30km Skiing event.
It was also nice to see that Bonnie Blair's personal fan-club
of 50 friends and relatives didn't have to get dissapointed.
The American defended her title that she won in Calgary four
years ago.
[30 Km Cross Country Skiing, Men]
If Sweden dominated the 80's, it sure looks like the Norwegians
are going to be dominant in the 90's. When Swedish star Torgny
Mogren couldn't start it was only Italy's Alboreto that could
take a place among the Norwegian foursome.
An incredible impressive victory, with Vegard Ulvang as the winner.
Ulvang has along with D�hlie and Langli dominated the World Cup
this winter and this was no exception. The Norwegians had all four
runners among the top 5 and Sweden had their foursome between places
six and eleven, This left only 2 places in the top ten for others,
these were Smirnov (CIS) who ended 9th and Kirvisniemi of Finland
who ended 7th (I think).
1. Vegard Ulvang, Norway
2. Bj�rn D�hlie, Norway
3. Terje Langli, Norway
4. M Alboreto, Italy
5. E Jerne, Norway
6. C Majb�ck, Sweden
[Luge, singel Men]
George Hackl took the championship victory that was missing in his
collection. He has earlier won the World Championship, the
European Championship and the World Cup.
1. George Hackl, Germany
2. Marcus Prock, Austria
3. Marcus Schmidt, Austria
4. Norbert Huber, Italy (Reigning World Champion)
[Speed Skating 500 meters Women]
Bonnie Blair defended her title from Calgary four years ago, but
the end could have been different. The runner up Ye Qiaobo had
problems in her race because her pair-mate wouldn't give her
free way (she was leading). This might have cost her the gold,
but Blair showed that she is a worthy champion.
1. Bonnie Blair, USA
2. Ye Qiaobo, China
3. Christa Luding, Germany
4. Monique Garbrecht, Germany
[Ice Hockey]
No surprises today, but the French team showed once again that
they are not kidding, another close loss, this time to
Czechoslovacia.
Pool B :
Chzechoslovacia - France 6 - 4
CIS - Norway 8 - 1
Canada - Switzerland 6 - 1
[Downhill Racing, Combination Men]
Marc Girardelli has a hard time going down the race track in
Val D'Is�re. For the second day in a row he fell (even though
he got a bit further this time). Another person to fall out
of contention was yesterday's bronze medalist G�nther Mader
who didn't have the same luck today.
Instead it was the Norwegian runner J Thorsen, that took the
lead in the first event of the combination race. The second
part will be slalom.
1. J Thorsen, Norway
2. C Martin, Italy
3. F Coltari, Italy
4. X Cigandet, Switzerland
5. P Accola, Switzerland
[Freestyle skiing, Ballet (Demonstration sport)]
(Sorry I don't have any information on this...)
Men :
1. Fabrice Becker, France
2. Rune Kristiansen, Norway
3. Spina Lane, USA
Women :
1. Conny Kissling, Switzerland
2. Cathy Fechoz, France
3. Sharon Petzhold, USA
[Figure Skating]
This is the first part of the pair's competition.
Original Pairs :
1. Michkostenik - Dmitrev, CIS
2. Betchke - Petrov , CIS
3. Brasseur - Eisler, Canada
4. Kovarikova - Novotny, Chzechoslovacia
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| 502.5 | #3 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:41 | 76 |
| Olympic Notebook, Tuesday 11/2
Downhill Racing, Women.
The very steep Olympic downhill racing track has been showned
to be dangerous to the runners. During the practice for the
women's combined downhill race several of the riders has fallen
and been injured. Sabine Ginther from Austria, who was one of
the favourites got a back injury, Wendy Fisher from USA broke
a leg, Lucie Laroche from Canada injured both (!) knees and
Vreni Schneider from Switzerland thought the track was too
dangerous so she has withdrawn from the combined racing.
Biathlon 7.5 Km Women
Biathlon for women made its debute as an olympic sport on
Tuesday when Anfissa Restzova of CIS made history, by taking
the gold. Restzova is a former "normal" cross-country skier
and has actually taken silver medals in both the World
Championship and the Olympics.
1. Anfissa Restzova, CIS
2. Antje Misersky, Germany
3. Jelena Belova, CIS
4. Nadezda Alexjeva, Bulgaria
Nordic Combined
After the first half of the Nordic combined (the ski jump), the
home favourite, Fabrice Guy is placed third.
(After the Ski jump)
1. Klaus Ofner, Austria
2. Reiichi Mikata, Japan
3. Fabrice Guy, France
Luge, singel Women.
It seems that luge for women is going into a new era. The first
three places after half of the competition is held by Austrians.
1. D Neuner, Austria
2. A Neuner, Asutria
3. A Tagwerker, Austria
4. S Erdmann, Germany
Ice Hockey.
Pool A had no surprises yesterday. The top team beat the lower
ranked teams. The most noticeable thing was that Swedish veteran
Borje Salming scored 2 goals against Italy.
Finland - Poland 9 - 1
USA - Germany 2 - 0
Sweden - Italy 7 - 3
Alpine Combined, Slalom, Men's
At parts of the slalom race, it looked like it was impossible to
get down. Many racers fell, most noticeable Strolz of Austria
who missed the last gate, when he was on his way to a victory.
Instead Josef Polig of Italy took the gold.
1. Josef Polig, Italy
2. Gianfranco Martin, Italy
3. Steve Locher, Switzerland
4. Jean-Luc Cretier, France
Figure Skating, Pairs
1. A Mitjkutenjuk - A Dimitrijev, CIS
2. J Betjke - D Petrov, CIS
3. I Brasseur - L Eisler, Canada
4. R Kovarikova - r Novotny, Chzechoslovacia
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| 502.6 | #4 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:41 | 109 |
| Olympic Report Wednesday 12/2
Nordic Combination, Second part, skiing, Men
Fabrice Guy did what the French nation expected of him when he
swiftly took the lead in the skiing section of the Nordic
Combination. He then had no problems holding on to his position
all the way to the goalline.
The big surprise was however that the silver also went to France.
It was Sylvain Guillaume that with a terrific effort past all
the other runners before him except Guy. The conditions were
hard with alsmost 10 degrees celsius in the air, which made the
track "sloppy".
It's obvious that the countries that once dominated the sport has
lost interest for it. Norway's best was on 4th place, Finland
did not have one along the 10 best and Sweden didn't even start.
Instead nowadays it has become an mid-european sport with France
and Austria as the dominating countries.
1. Fabrice Guy, France
2. Sylvain Guillaume, France
3. Klaus Sulzenbacker, Austria
4. Fred B�rre Lundberg, Norway
Speed Skating, 1500 meters, Women
During the summer of 1990, Jacqueline B�rner of Germany was severly
injured when she was hit by a car while she was biking. B�rner has
worked her way back ever since and on Wednesday she received her
reward, when she won the olympic gold on the Women's 1500 meters.
On second place was the winner of the 3000 meters race Gunda
Niemann. On third place almost a second behind was Seiko Hashimoto
of Japan.
1. Jacqueline B�rner, Germany
2. Gunda Niemann, Germany
3. Seiko Hashimoto, Japan
4. Natiaja Polozkova, CIS
5. Monique Garbrecht, Germany
Luge Singel, Women
In a sport that has been dominated by the (East) Germans since
it was introduced in 1964, two Austrian sisters changed the
"normal" situation, when they took the gold and silver in the
luge singel event.
1. Doris Neuner, Austria
2. Angelika Neuner, Austria
3. Susi Erdmann, Germany
4. Gerda Weissensteiner, Italy
Alpine Skiing, Combined Downhill race, Women.
Petra Kronberger of Austria took a big step towards a gold medal
when she won the first part of the Women's combined event yesterday.
Kronberger was the best managing the very hard track and won 52/100
of a second before the american Krista Scmidinger.
1. Petra Kronberger, Austria
2. Krista Scmidinger, USA
3. Katja Seizinger, Germany
4. Kerrin Lee-Gartner, Canada
5. Svetlana Gladisjeva, CIS
Ice Hockey
It was France big day in the olympics. First the gold to Fabrice
guy and secondly the hockey team won over Switzerland with 4-3.
This was a surprise even to their swedish(!) coach Kjell Larsson,
that thought that they had given too much in the two first games
of the tournament. If they can win over Norway (which shouldn't
be too hard), they will most likely reach the quarterfinals which
would be a great success.
Czechoslovacia upset the CIS yesterday evening in the best game
so far in the tournament. They won with 4-3 in a game that showed
that even if the countries has lost a number of players to the NHL
there comes a whole bunch of new ones that can play real good
hockey.
Pool B :
Canada - Norway 10 - 0
France - Switzerland 4 - 3
Chzechoslovacia - CIS 4 - 3
1. Canada 6 p 4. France 2p
2. Chzechoslovacia 6 p 5. Switzerland 0 p
3. CIS 4 p 6. Norway 0 p
Biathlon 10 km Men
1. Mark Kirchner, Germany
2. Ricco Gross, Germany
3. Harri Eloranta, Finland
4. Sergej Tjepikov, CIS
Cross-country skiing Men.
The gold medalist on 30 km, Vegard Ulvang of Norway will not
be able to compete in the 50km race that finishes the skiers
part of the olympics. He has a hip injury which troubles him
when he uses the skating technique.
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| 502.7 | #5 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:42 | 172 |
| Olympic report 14/2,15/2 and 16/2 by Paul Ahlgren.
Alpine, Downhill racing, Women
Switzerland still don't have a gold in the alpines, which
much be a big dissapointment for the country. The best
Swiss girl was only 10th in the downhill race. Instead
we hade one of the big surprise winners of the olympics,
Kerrin Lee-Gartner of Canada who was able to master the
difficult downhill slope better than anyone else. Petra
Kronberger of Austria, who was the favourite were no better
than 5th.
1. Kerrin Lee-Gartner , Canada
2. Hilary Lindh, USA
3. Veronika Wallinger , Austria
4. Katja Seizinger, Asutria
5. Petra Kronberger, Austria
Alpine, Super-G, Men
Three norwegians on places 1,3 and 4. Nothing can go wrong for
the norwegians in this olympic. Aamodt took one of the more
sensational medals in this olympics when he won the Super-G
gold on Sunday.
1. Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Norway
2. Marc Girardelli, Luxemburg
3. Jan Einar Thorssen, Norway
4. Ole Christian Furuseth, Norway
Skiing, 15 km "Hunting-start" , Men
Norway, Norway, Norway... Noone seems to be able to to stop
the Norwegians in this championships. This time it was Bj�rn
D�hlie who took an olympic gold, through a terrific race.
1. Bj�rn D�hlie, Norway
2. Vegard Ulvang, Norway
3. Giorgio Vanzetta, Italy
4. Marco Alborello, Italy
Skiing, 10 Km "Hunting-start" , Women
1. L Egorova, CIS
2. S Belmondo, Italy
3. J Velbe, CIS
4. M Lukkarinen, Finland
Ski Jump, Team
16 year old Toni Nieminen of Finland became the youngest
winter olympic gold medalist ever on Friday when Finland
won the ski jump team gold.
1. Finland ( Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Lakkinen,
Toni Nieminen )
2. Austria
3. Chzechoslovacia
Ski Jump, 120 meter hill
Toni Nieminen took his second gold in this olympics when he
never seemed to land in his second jump on Sunday. Martin
Hollwarth of Austria had done two good jumps, but Toni showed
no signes of having any nerves. His jump landed seven meters
longer than Hollwarths and he can return to Finland with two
golds and one bronze, only 16 years old.
1. Toni Nieminen, Finland
2. Martin Hollwarth, Austria
3. Heinz kuttin, Austria
4. Masahiko Marada, Japan
Speed Skating, 500 meters Men
Dan Jansen of USA, didn't succeed to take an olympic medal this
time either. Dan who's sister died just a few hours before his
olympic start in Calgary, had been preparing for his "comeback"
for four years. But two japanese runners and the fantastic Mey
of Germany ended his hopes for an olympic medal this time.
1. Uwe Jens Mey, Germany
2. Toshiyuki Kuriowa, Japan
3. Junichi Inoue, Japan
4. Dan Jansen, USA
Speed Skating, 1000 meters Women
Bonnie Blair took her second gold, and Chinese girl Ye her second
silver when 1000 meters was run on Friday.
1. Bonnie Blair , USA
2. Qiaobo Ye , China
3. Monique Garbrecht , Germany
Ice Hockey
France has surprised everybody by qualifying for a place in
the quarterfinals.
Pool A :
Sweden - Finland 2 - 2
Germany - Italy 5 - 2
USA - Poland 3 - 0
Pool B :
Canada - Chzechoslovacia 5 - 1
CIS - France 8 - 0
Switzerland - Norway 6 - 3
France - Norway 4 - 2
Chzechoslovacia - Switzerland 4 - 2
CIS - Canada 5 - 4
1. Canada 8 points
2. CIS 8
3. Chzecho. 8
4. France 4
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5. Switzerland 2
6. Norway 0
Luge, Double, Men
1. Stefan Krausse / Jan Behrendt , Germany
2. Yves Mankel / Thomas Rudolph , Germany
3. Hansjoerg Raffl / Norbert Huber , Italy
Biathlon, Relays 4*7.5 Km Men
For the first time ever a non-soviet team won the men's biathlon
relay.
1. Germany
2. CIS
3. Sweden
4. Italy
Biathlon, Relays 3*7.5 Km Women
1. France
2. Germany
3. CIS
4. Bulgaria
Speed Skating 1500 meters, Men
You could never have guessed, a norwegian won :-)
1. Johann Olav Koss, Norway
2. Adne S�ndral, Norway
3. Leo Visser, Holland
4. Rintje Ritsma, Holland
Freestyle skiing, Jumps, Women (Demonstration sport)
1. Colette Brand, Switzerland
2. Marie Lindgren, Sweden
3. Elfie Simchen, Germany
Bobsleigh, Doubles
Finally a swiss gold medal...
1. Gustav Weder / Donat Acklin , Switzerland
2. Rudolf Lochner / Marcus Zimmerman , Germany
3. Cristoph Langen / G�nther Eger, Germany
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| 502.8 | #6 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:42 | 76 |
| Olympic report 17/2 by Paul Ahlgren.
Skiing, 4*5km relays Women.
The CIS did what everybody expected them to do yesterday when
they won the women's relays. The most noticeable thing was
that Raisa Smetanina took a gold medal for the fifth (!!!)
olympic tournament in a row. She took her first in Seefeld in
1976.
Otherwise there were some surprises, like the Norwegians
second place, that Finland finished "only" fourth and that
France took the fifth.
1. CIS ( Jelena Velbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larissa Lazutina,
Ljubov Jegorova )
2. Norway
3. Italy
4. Finland
5. France
6. Chzechoslovacia
Speed skating, 5000 meters Women.
Gunda Niemann could quite easily take her second gold medal
when she won the 5000 meters yesterday. It was former East
Germany that dominated the event, all three medalists came
from the former nation.
1. Gunda Niemann, Germany
2. Heike Warnicke, Germany
3. Claudia Pechstein, Germany
4. Carla Ziljstra, Holland
Ice Hockey
Sweden made a late comeback when Pool A finished their round-robin
play. USA had the lead with 3-0 after 5 minutes of the last period
but, Sweden were able to equalize with less than a minute to
play.
Sweden - USA 3 - 3
Germany - Poland 4 - 0
Finland - Italy 5 - 3
1. USA 9 p vs France in the quarterfinals
2. Sweden 8 vs Chzechoslovacia
3. Finland 7 vs CIS
4. Germany 4 vs Canada
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5. Italy 2
6. Poland 0
Curling (Demonstration sport)
No surprises the first day, when Australia made its international
curling debute. The big favourites in both the men's and women's
events are Canada.
Men : Norway - Great Britain (Scotland) 6 - 1, Switzerland -
Australia 7 - 3
Women : Canada - Sweden 8 - 2, Denmark - France 9 - 5
Freestyle, Jumps , Men (Demonstration sport)
1. P Laroche, Canada
2. N Fontaine, France
3. D Meda, France
4. J-M Bacquin, France
Figure Skating :
The Swedish newspapers don't have these results. I will give a
full report tomorrow when I have found out the results.
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| 502.9 | #7 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:43 | 118 |
| Skiing 4*10km Relays Men
Norway took another impressive victory yesterday when
they won the relays. Vegard Ulvang beat all the
competitors on the second leg, where he "crushed" all the
others. Sweden who has dominated the last ten years, did
not end better than 4th.
1. Norway ( Langli, Ulvang,Skjeldal, D�hlie)
2. Italy
3. Finland
4. Sweden
Alpine, Giant Slalom Men
Alberto Tomba did what everybody (at least all italians)
expected him to do yesterday when he defended the gold he
won in Calgary '88. By doing this he became the first
alpine (male) skier ever to defend an olympic gold, a
feat that not even the legendary Stenmark succeeded with.
Second came Marc Girardelli of Luxemburg, who put Tomba
under pressure with a magnificent second run.
1. Alberto Tomba, Italy
2. Marc Girardelli, Luxemburg
3. Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Norway
4. Paul Accola, Switzerland
Alpine, Super-G Women
1. Deborah Compagnoni, Italy
2. Carole Merle, France
3. Katja Seizinger, Germany
4. Petra Kronberger, Austria
Ice Hockey
The favourites won but the underdogs gave them a match
they will likely remember. Canada needed the shootout to
defeat a well playing Germany and USA had a very hard
time beating France, before they could advance into the
semifinals.
Canada - Germany 6-5 (1-2,1-0,1-1,0-0,3-2)
USA - France 4-1 (2-1,1-0,1-0)
Places 9-12 : Norway - Italy 5-3
Speed Skating 1000 meters Men
1. Olaf Zinke, Germany
2. Kim Yoon-Man, S Korea
3. Yukinori Miyabe, Japan
4. Gerard van Velde, Holland
Nordic Combination Team
1. Japan ( Mikata, Kono, Ogiwara)
2. Norway
3. Austria
4. France
Figure skating Men Singles
Victor Petrenko of CIS took the first gold medal ever for
a skater from the Soviet Union/CIS. Second came the
American Paul Wylie who normally comes "only" abouth
8-10th.
1. Victor Petrenko, CIS
2. Paul Wylie, USA
3. Petr Barna, Chzechoslovacia
4. C Bowman, USA
Ice Dancing
Klimova and Ponomarenko of CIS beat the home favourites
with a fantastic freestyle program danced to the music of
Bach. The Duchesnay's had a more innovative act, but were
not as good skaters as the CIS couple.
1. Klimova / Ponomarenko , CIS
2. I&P Duchesnay, France
3. Usova / Zhulin, CIS
4. Gritschuk / Platov , CIS
Freestyle, Jumps , Men (Demonstration sport)
Correction of Monsieur Fontaine's nationality, which is
Canadian, not French. (Thanks to Glenn O'Brien)
1. P Laroche, Canada
2. N Fontaine, Canada
3. D Meda, France
4. J-M Bacquin, France
Curling (demonstration sport)
Men : Norway - Great Britain 6 - 1
Switzerland - Australia 7 - 3
Canada - USA 7 - 3
France - Sweden 8 - 3
Great Britain - Australia 9 - 6
Norway - Switzerland 11- 3
Canada - France 5 - 4
USA - Sweden 8 - 4
Women : Germany - Japan 9 - 7
Norway - Great Britain 5 - 4
Canada - France 4 - 3
Danmark - Sweden 8 - 6
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| 502.10 | #8 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:44 | 61 |
| Alpine, Giant Slalom , Women
The reigning world champion took hers and Sweden's first gold
medal in these olympic games when she yesterday won the giant
slalom race.
In second place came two girls, Dianne Roffe of USA who made
a great second run after being 9th after the first. She shared
the second position with Anita Wachter of Austria.
Ulrike Maier of Austria who lead the race after the first run,
had no chance against the Wiberg and Roffe, and slipped into
4th position.
1. Pernilla Wiberg, Sweden
2. Dianne Roffe, USA and Anita Wachter, Austria
4. Ulrike Maier, Austria
5. Julie Parisien, USA
6. Carole Merle, France
Ice Hockey
A very disciplined Chzechoslovacian team yesterday defeated
the Swedish world champions in their quarterfinal in the
Olympic hockey tournament. It was a game with two very
strong defensive teams, and it was not until late in the
third period that the Chzechs could take advantage of a
Swedish mistake and win the game.
CIS, former Soviet Union had no problems in their quarter-
final where they defeated the Finnish team quite easily with
6-1
Chzechoslovacia - Sweden 3 - 1 (1-1,0-0,2-0)
CIS - Finland 6 - 1 (2-1,2-0,2-0)
Places 9-12 : Switzerland - Poland 7 - 2
Correction of yesterday's result :
USA - France 4-1 (0-1,2-0,2-0)
Biathlon, 15 km Women
1. A Miserzky, Germany
2. S Petjerskaja, CIS
3. M Bedard, Canada
4. V Claudel, France
Curling (Demonstration sport)
Canada has dominated the olympic tournament so far, winning
all the games both on the men's and women's side.
Canada, USA, Switzerland and Norway are through to the semi's
in the men's. Canada and Denmark has qualified in the women's.
Men : Switzerland - Great Britain 6-5, Norway - Australia 11 - 1
Canada - Sweden 10 - 5 , USA - Frankrike 6 - 4
Women : Sweden - France 14 - 5 , Canada - Denmark 12 - 2
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| 502.11 | #9 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:44 | 93 |
| Alpine, Slalom Women
Petra Kronberger of Austria took her second gold medal in these
olympic games yesterday when she won the slalom in grand style.
She won 4/10ths of a second before Coberger of New Zealand and
almost 7/10ths of a second before Fernandez-Ochoa of Spain.
1. Petra Kronberger , Austria
2. Annelise Coberger, New Zealand
3. Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, Spain
4. Julie Parisien, USA
5. Karin Buder, Austria
Speed skating, 10000 meters , Men
Bert Veldkamp gave the skate-crazy dutch their first gold in
these olympics when he defeated the two norwegians Koss and
Karlstad in the 10000 meters yesterday.
1. Bert Veldkamp, Holland
2. Johann Olav Koss, Norway
3. Geir Karlstad, Norway
4. Robert Vunderink, Holland
5. Kazuhiro Sato, Japan
Biathlon, 20 Km Men
There were a lot of drama when the Biathlon over 20 kilometers
were run yesterday. The Winner Redkine of CIS was an excellent
shooter and did not miss one shot. If the German Kirchner had
shot only two misses instead of three he had won the gold.
Lofgren who took the bronze missed the gold at the last standing
shootout when he missed his first shot.
1. Jevgenij Redkine , CIS
2. Mark Kirchner, CIS
3. Mikael L�fgren, Sweden
4. Alexander Popov, CIS
5. Harri Eloranta, Finland
Short track skating
A new sport has made its entrance in the olympic family in these
olympics. It's the short-track skating, that is performed on
hockey rinks instead of the classic 400 meter track.
The sport is intense with a lot of speed and tactics. It suits
the "TV-format" very well, since you can follow the whole track
at one time.
Yesterday there were two events. First the 1000 meters for men
and then the relays for women. The relays are quite interesting,
there are four members of the team, they take turns of 1 - 1�
lap before the next person takes over. The relay is done with
a great "push" in the back. It's a very speedy event on the
short track and yesterdfay the Canadian Women's team set a new
world record when they won the final.
1000 meters Men
1. Kim Ki-hoon, Korea
2. Frederic Blackburn, Canada
3. Lee Joon-Ho, Korea
4. Mike McMillen, New Zealand
3000 meters, Relay Women
1. Canada
2. USA
3. CIS
4. Japan
Ice Hockey
Playoff for places 5-8 :
Sweden - Finland 3 - 2
Germany - France 5 - 4
Playoff for places 11-12 :
Poland - Italy 4 - 1
Curling ( Demonstration sport)
Norway's and Germany's women became the last to qualify for the
semifinals in the curling tournament.
Women : Norway - Japan 7-6, Germany - Great Britain 6-4
Great Britain - Japan 10-3 , Germany - Norway 7-3
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| 502.12 | #10 | STKSMA::AHLGREN | Love knows no colour! | Tue Feb 25 1992 03:45 | 205 |
| Two weeks of winter olympics is over. Two weeks were dreams
has either come true or been shattered. Weeks of the happiness
of the winners and the pain of defeat for the loosers.
I have always liked the winter olympics for its mixure of all
sports from the beautiful ice dancing, the speed of luge and
downhill racing to the force and tactiques of hockey.
As always you get your favourites, which doesn't always have
to be the winners. Take for instance the downhill skier from
Senegal who answered, when questioned if he ever was frightened,
just answered "Every time I see the slope". It's impossible
not to like these kind of persons, because the impersonate the
olympic spirit.
What will I remember with these olympic games then? Well, of
course the fantastic norwegians. Everything seemed to go their
way in these olympics and especially Vegard Ulvang and Bj�rn
D�hlie who took all the cross-country skiing gold medals. This
has never happened before, that one nation wins it all. Other
skiers you have to admire is Marillio de Zolt, who at 42 took
a silver medal in "the blue ribbon" of the skiing sport, 50
km's. Or Raisa Smetanina of CIS who took a gold medal for the
fifth (!!) straight olympic when she was part of CIS's winning
relay team.
Many will of course remember "the Flying Finn", Toni Nieminen
who at the age of 16 took two golds and one bronze medal. Another
highlight was the CIS ice dancing couple, Klimova and Ponormarenko
who artistery was as close to art as it was to sports.
But of course, there are more loosers than winners in the olympic
games and some you remember better than others. Like the Germans
who lost their quarterfinals to Canada in a shootout were the
final puck laid itself to rest exactly on the goalline, short about
2 centimeters from a goal. Or why not the Swiss, this mighty
alpine nation who goes home with a single bronze medal in all
the alpine events, not exactly what they had calculated before the
games. Like the swedes who has dominated the cross-country skiing
for a decade, who also went home with a single bronze.
Before the games everybody was worried that it would snow too much,
that the organization wouldn't work, that it would become a
traffic chaos, but now when it's over the greatest winner is
probably Jean-Claude Killy who has been the organizer of a very
successful olympic tournament. Everything has gone as smooth as
anyone dared to guess, and the games has been a great success to
the olympic movement.
Now it's only 5 months to the summer olympics where myself and
Ken hope to be able to bring you the same kind of coverage that
we have done from Albertville. Until then : Auf Wiedersen, Au
revoir and P� �terseende.
Paul Ahlgren.
Skiing, 50 km Men
Norway dominated "the blue ribbon" of cross-country skiing, the
50 kilometers as they have all the other distances. It was
Bj�rn D�hlie wo took his third gold in these olympics who won
before two italians. Second came the marvelous de Zolt who at
age 42 seems younger than ever and third was Vanzetta.
For the Swedes who has dominated this event for the last 10
years it was a dark day, with the best Torgny Mogren no better
than 12th, 6 minutes after the winner.
1. Bj�rn D�hlie, Norway
2. Maurillio de Zolt, Italy
3. Giorgio Vanzetta, Italy
4. Alexej Prokurorov, CIS
Skiing, 30 km Women
Stefania Belmondo took the first italian gold medal for women
when she won the 30 km's skiing event saturday. The italian
won before maybe the most successful of all the olympic
participants in Albertville, Ljubov Jegorova of the CIS. In
third place cam Jelena Velbe who took her fourth bronze in
thse games.
1. Stefania Belmondo, Italy
2. Ljubov Jegorova, CIS
3. Jelena Velbe, CIS
4. Elin Nilsen, Norway
Ice Hockey
CIS "defended" the olympic title taking their third straight
gold medal after defeating Canada with 3-1 in the final.
Chzechoslovacia took the bronze after defeating USA with 6-1
in the bronze game.
CIS showed that even though they have a whole team in the NHL
they can produce marvelous hockey teams and they won a well
deserved gold medal.
Final : CIS - Canada 3 - 1 (0-0,0-0,3-1)
Bronze: Chzechoslovacia - USA 6 - 1 (2-0,1-0,3-1)
5-6 : Sweden - Germany 4 - 3 (0-2,1-0,3-1)
7-8 : Finland - France 4 - 1 (0-0,2-0,2-1)
9-10 : Norway - Switzerland 5 - 2 (2-0,0-1,3-1)
Semi's: CIS - USA 5 - 2 (2-1,0-1,3-0)
Canada - Chzechoslovacia 4- 2 (2-1,0-1,2-0)
Figure Skating, Women
Not one of the top 6 was able to skate error free in the freestyle
final of the women's single figure skating. The one that came
the closest was the marvelous Kristi Yamaguchi of USA who only
"dipped" her hand in the ice once during her program. All the
girls seemed strained by the pressure and the home favourite
Surya Bonaly dropped from third to fifth place after a few misses
in her program.
1. Kristi Yamaguchi, USA
2. Midori Ito, Japan
3. Nancy Kerrigan, USA
4. Tonya Harding, USA
5. Surya Bonaly, France
Alpine, Slalom Men
Alberto Tomba did not succeed to win his second gold medal
in these olympics, but he came close. After a not so successful
first run, he gave everything he had in the second. It seemed
to be enough to raise him to gold from the 6th position he
held after the first race. Until a norwegian, Finn Christian
Jagge was able to be just an inch faster and snatch the double
from Tomba.
1. Finn Christian Jagge, Norway
2. Alberto Tomba, Italy
3. Michael Tritscher, Austria
4. Patrick Staub, Switzerland
5. Thomas Fogd�, Sweden
Bobsleigh, 4-man
1. Austria 1 ( Appelt, Winkler, Haldacher, Schroll )
2. Germany 1
3. Switzerland 1
4. Canada 1
Short track Skating.
When the women's individual race and the men's relay was decided
saturday both races were won with less than 10 centimeters.
Especially the men's relay was close were Korea "tricked" Canada
of the gold by a loooong strech at the goalline.
500 meters Women
1. Cathy Turner, USA
2. Li Yan, China
3. Hwang Ok-Sil, Republic of Korea
5000 meters Men Relays
1. Korea
2. Canada
3. Japan
Speed Skiing (Demonstration sport)
Was it the last (as well as the first) time we saw speed
skiing as an olympic sport? The question can be asked after
the tragic death of the Swiss skier Nicholas Bochatay who
died during a training run saturday morning. He was not
skiing in the track but in a regular pist, when he lost
control and died when he crashed into a "pist preparation"
machine.
The finals were run anyway, but two of the three other Swiss
runners decided not to start. Instead it was Michael Prufer
of France who won setting a new world record speed with
229 km's per hour!
Men : Women :
1. Michael Prufer, France 1. Tarja Mulari, Finland
2. Philippe Goitschel, France 2. Liss Pettersen, Norway
3. Jeffrey Hamilton, USA 3. Renata Kolarova, Switzerland
4. Laurent Sistach, France 4. Anna Morin, Sweden
Curling ( Demonstration sport )
Canada went home very dissapointed from these olympics. Their
hopes for a double gold ended with a single bronze. The teams
from "the great white north" lost both their semifinals which
was not what they had expected.
Instead it was Switzerland and Germany who took the golds, both
after defeating the Norwegian rinks.
Men's :
Final : Switzerland - Norway 7-6 Bronze : USA - Canada 9 - 2
Semi's : Switzerland - Canada 8 - 4 , Norway - USA 8 - 3
Women :
Final : Germany - Norway 9 - 2, Canada - Denmark 9 - 3
Semi's: Germany - Denmark 6 - 5, Norway - Canada 9 - 2
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| 502.13 | Next: Sports Illustrated | OSL09::MAURITZ | DTN(at last!)872-0238; @NWO | Tue Feb 25 1992 04:02 | 13 |
| Thanks for the entries, Paul
I truly enjoyed being able to read all of them, and that is not
primarily because of your kind description of "our guys". What
really struck me about your reporting is the breadth of events covered
and the additional background you managed to include in sports that
have not made the headlines here.
Paul, you missed your calling; how can "Svenska Dagbladet" do without
your talents?
Mauritz
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| 502.14 | In the summer games... | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Aug 03 1992 14:04 | 35 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (John Dryselius TG/HB)
Subject: Re: Let's talk about Olympic...
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Ericsson Telecom
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 14:10:30 GMT
Norwegian table tennis players? Do they exist?. Sweden was the no 1
during the 3 or 4 last years but now other countries are catching up on
us, specially european countries like Germany, France and Belgium.
Jorgen Persson and J O Waldner are still alive in the Olympics and both
have a good chance to take the gold. The swdish pairs flopped in the
double
In badminton denmark is no 1 in Scandinavia. They still have one player
left in the olympics, in men's single.
Norway is the only Scandinavian country that have a gold this far. It
was Roenningen (please correct my spelling) in greco-roman wrestling.
Finland probably having one in javelin.
For Sweden the following gold candidates have missed: Skanaaker
(shooting) missed the gold - became a bronze on the second last shot.
The swimmer Holmertz missed gold on 200m freestyle with a few
centimetres. The high jumper Sjoeberg took silver. The Swedish football
team failed - lost very disgracefully against Australia. Edberg flopped
- but he's been doing very poor for a long time.
Still remaining are the table tennis players mentioned above, the
handball team being very impressive this far. Maybe the canoeists Anna
Ohlson and Agneta Andersson can do something.
John
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| 502.15 | Norway - gold | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Aug 04 1992 12:00 | 5 |
| Re: .14:
I understand that Norway got a gold medal in one of the women's boating
competitions (L. Andersen?) and that this was the first gold for a
Norwegian female in a summer event.
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| 502.16 | More on Norway's summer medals | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Aug 05 1992 11:21 | 49 |
| From: [email protected] (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Norwegian gold in the olympics?
Date: 5 Aug 92 06:53:01 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (NetNews Administrator)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
--
Trine Hattestad (women's javelin) became fifth. Her series was the
shortest for a long, long time - isn't able to relax in serious
competitions, I think.
Irene Dalby is a good european swimmer - fifth or sixth (800 m)
Jon Roenningen, the wrestler, WON GOLD
Ole "Lukkoeye (Sandman)" Klemetsen, boxing - lost the quarterfinal
yesterday to Robin Reid (?). I don't think Ole boxed well, but 10 - 20
on points !? Well, there has been many complaints about the
computerized system - maybe they're right ?
Linda Andersen, "Europajolle" (sailing) WON GOLD, and is the first
Norwegian woman to win gold at any summer OL... Congratulations
Knut Holmann, kayak - through to the semi in both 500 and 1000 m. Seems
like he's got a very good chance to win 1000 m, and maybe 500 m too.
Kayak pairs (men) - they won their heat yesterday. Maybe.....
"Dobbeltfirer" (4 men in a rowboat - I don't know the english name) -
WON SILVER.
Womens handball - play semi against Russia tomorrow - I think they'll
beat Russia, and go to the final against Korea. Korea and Austria
played 27-27, Norway lost by 16-27 to Korea in a horrible match, but
beat Austria 19-17. If Norway plays like second half of that match,
they'll beat anyone !
Harald Stenvaag, one of the best shooter's in the world, WON SILVER.
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| 502.17 | Sweden, gold in table tennis | TLE::SAVAGE | | Thu Aug 06 1992 11:23 | 28 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Olof Ekstr�m)
Subject: Re: Let's talk about Olympic...
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 13:49:31 GMT
Finally Sweden has entered the Olympics - Gold in table tennis. Tonight
we'll sweep the floor with the French in the handball tournament -
after that nothing can stop us from taking that gold, too. Well, those
sixteen gold, actually. ;-) Frankly, I hate handball but it's great to
win.
...
Not all Swedish expectations have been met in these Olympics, but I
feel we've done good, so far. By the way, being small also has good
sides. In the winter Olympics Sweden failed miserably. Norway didn't.
So instead, Swedish tv cheer the Norwegians, even a live reading of
congratulations where both countries tv channel cheered and were happy
together. The Scandinavian countries are close enough together to be
happy when the others have lucky day. So somebody - give us a count of
all Scandinavian medals so far, and let's all be happy we're living in
the best corner of the world. /olof
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Olof Ekstrom (Ekstroem) [email protected]
Last(?) year student of Computing Science, Uppsala University
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