BRIEFLY\Street skis to world title.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Picabo Street Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971, in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Park City, Utah. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, Idaho, where she learned to ski and race. , a silver medalist in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics, did even better at the World Alpine Ski Alpine Ski is an Alpine skiing arcade game, released by Taito in 1981. Description The player controls a skier, who can move left, right, or increase forward speed. Championships on Sunday in Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. , Spain. Street became the first American First American may refer to:
Born at Juneau, Alaska, Lindh was just 14 when she was named to the U.S. Ski Team. By 16, she had become the first American to win a World Junior Championships downhill title. She represented the U.S. finished third, while Megan Gerety was fifth. Street, who won the World Cup downhill title last season, easily beat runner-up Katja Seizinger Katja Seizinger (born May 10, 1972 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former alpine skier, the most successful alpine skier of her country. She won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals. of Germany. After the race, she posed for photographs with her foot planted on top of her helmet, which was painted to look like a world globe. "At first I was going to leave it on my head and say I was on top of the world, but then I decided to stand on it," she said. Christine Witty became women's champion at the 27th World Sprint Speedskating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, setting a track record of 1 minute, 19.97 seconds in her second 1,000-meter victory. Sergei Klevchenja of Russia won the men's title after winning his second 1,000-meter race. Tony Goskowicz of New Berlin, Wis., and Amy Peterson of Maplewood, Minn., won the overall titles at the U.S. Short Track Speedskating Championships at Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs, resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source of employment, but the city also has light manufacturing. , N.Y. Goskowicz won the 1,000-, 1,500- and 3,000 meter individual events and placed second in the 500 to give him 23 points overall in the men's division. Peterson won the women's overall title with 16 points as well as capturing the gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize in the 500 and 3,000 and the silver in the 1,500. Irina Slutskaya Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya (Russian: Ири́на Эдуа́рдовна Слу́цкая completed a sweep of titles for Russian skaters with a victory in the women's competition at the Centennial on Ice in St. Petersburg, Russia. Austrian teen-ager Mario Stecher got his second World Cup win in a Nordic combined event in Murau, Austria. FOOTBALL Jacksonville again was aggressive in free agency, signing Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Leon Searcy to a five-year contract that makes him the highest-paid offensive lineman in the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga . The contract is worth $17 million over five years, including a $5 million signing bonus. It tops the five-year, $15.5 million deal that Atlanta Falcons tackle Bob Whitfield recently signed. The signing comes one day after the Jaguars signed defensive end Alonzo Spellman, one of the Chicago Bears' transition players, to an offer sheet said to be worth $3 million a year. Two Tennessee football players who allegedly beat and kicked a man in an apartment complex courtyard are facing assault charges. Sophomore linebacker Anthony P. Hampton and freshman wide receiver Greg Kyler were charged with assault Saturday. Police reports show the two got out of a car and ran down Brian N. Forrest, 22, a university employee early Saturday morning. Hampton allegedly "knocked him to the ground with his forearm," while the two players began kicking him in the head and body. OLYMPICS Two major rules changes involving the behavior of Olympic athletes - random drug testing and a code of conduct - received preliminary approval from the U.S. Olympic Committee. The USOC's governing executive committee agreed in principle to order all Olympic sports to stage out-of-competition drug tests on short notice. The committee will pick up the entire $1.5 million annual pricetag for the package, the toughest anti-doping program in the world. It also gave a tentative OK to changes in the code of conduct for U.S. Olympic athletes. The revision - sparked by embarrassing incidents at the past two Games - would give the USOC (Universal Service Order Code) An equipment coding system created by AT&T. The number was applied to telephone equipment and to wire termination patterns. See 568A. control over America's Olympians up to 45 days before entry deadlines and would force all team members to accept the code without changes or be barred from the squad. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . The Southern Section IV-A boys' basketball playoff game between Bell-Jeff and Santa Clara high schools will be played Tuesday night at North Hollywood High. Carlos Queiroz, who last spring turned down a chance to coach the U.S. national soccer team, was fired by Sport Lisbon of the Portugese League. . . . CAPTION(S): PHOTO It was a joyous Street scene in Spain after America's Picabo Street took first in the downhill at the World Alpine Ski Championships. Associated Press |
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