w16 Wednesday, February 19, 1992 @ ait no worry for rink News Staff Rest and relaxation appar- ently agrees with John Merkley and his Trail rink. Merkley’s rink was more than ready to get to it Tuesday at the Castlegar Curling Club after waiting five days to play in the final of the 14-team Zone 1 Senior Men’s Curling Championship. And after waiting so long, Merkley made short work of Trail’s Art Winstanley in an eight end, 10-2 victory. : The three-day event which began here last Tuesday, had to be extended a day when Merkley and Winstanley tied with five wins and a loss after the round robin portion of the tourney. Merkley’s rink Anselmo and Nelson players Don Benedetti and Red Koehle, advances. to. the of Sam. News photo by Ed Mills Skip Norm Arnott of Grand Forks intensely eyes his rock in a game against Castlegar’s Arne Akselson during final round play Thursday in the Zone 1 Men’s Curling Championships. Neither rink made the final of the championships which wrapped up yesterday at the Castlegar Curling Rink. provincial championship with the other seven zone winners in Trail March 3. The provincial winner — who is also the B.C. masters champion — moves to the Western Canadian champi- onships, which are set for Dun- can later in March. Winstanley recruited Castlegar’s Buzz MacDonald as third for his team after his regular third, Euc Regnier, was injured on the first day of competition. p Ken Turner and Len Bey made up the rest of Winstan- ley’s rink. Castlegar’s Ralph Clay was the best local finisher at 4-2, while Nick Oglow and Wally Braun also entered rinks in the playoff. @ Wednesday, February 19, 1992'*’ XVIWinterOLYNIPIAD: OLYMPICS 5 February 21 With a flurry of jumps and spins, the women’s figure skating competition contin- ues with the long programs. Current world champion Kristi Y amaguchi tries to be- come the first American woman to earn the gold since Dorothy Hamill in 1976. She faces strong oppo- sition, however, from Japan’s Midori Ito whose athletic and dynamic style will allow her to take advan- tage of having the compulso- ry figures dropped from Olympic competition. If Ito is edged out, there is the po- tential for an American sweep by Yamaguchi, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. France’s. Surya Bonaly, the 1991 European champion, is also in con- tention for a medal. Brawn and speed replace grace and beauty as the hockey semifinalists take the ice. The winners of these games will play off in two days for the gold medal, while the losers vie for the bronze tomorrow. Other scheduled events in- clude four-man __ bobsled, ‘| women’s 30-kilometer cross-country skiing, and semifinals in both the speed skiing and curling exhibi- tions. Speed skaters N oa, cad Lambert 28, Montreal, Que. A national team member since 1981, Nathalie's skating prowess has been recognized at all levels. She was the re- cipient of the Sport Excellence Award in 1985 and World | Champion Award in 1987: and 1989 at the Tribute to the Champions. She won the Club Medaille d'Or Excellence Award from 1987 to 1991 and was named female Athlete of the Year by the Federation de patinage de vitesse due Quebec from 1983-86 and in 29, Sherbrooke, Que Sylvie, who is also a member of the Quebec Ice Hockey Team, start- ed speed skating by mis- take. She showed up to play hockey at the local arena only to find a speed skating session going on. Since she joined the national team in 1980, she has made her mark on the interna- tional scene. She is a - five-time world champion and the current world record holder in the 500m at 46.72. She is al- so Canada’s best hope for a medal in speed- skating. Donatelli 21, Mission, B.C. Eden was honored with the World Champion Award in 1987 and 1989 at the tribute to the Champions and was B.C.'s Junior Athlete of the Year in 1987. A member of the national team since 1986, Eden is also a member of Athletes Motivating Excellence, a group of B.C. athletes who talk to students about being an elite athlete and who try to encourage participa- tion in sports. She cur- rently resides and trains in Quebec, where she is | a student at McGill. OLYMPICS 22 February 22 Shifting sites to Les Menuires, speed is the story as men alpine skiers shoosh their way through _ the slalom. Italy’s Alberto Tom- ba, the flashy and aggressive champion of Calgary in 1988, can expect a battle from Finn Christian Jagge of Norway, who learned to ski before he leamed to walk. Paul Accola of Switzerland is also considered a strong. challenger. The pace continues in the town of La Plagne as the four-man bobsled teams ca- reen down icy, curved tracks. Each team will con- sist of a driver, a brakeman and two pushers. The Ger- man team, driven by Wolf- gang Hoppe, and Gustav Weder’s Swiss team expect to do well in this contest which is timed down to 1/100th of a second. Ongoing. exhibitions _ in- clude speed skiing and curl- ing. Figure skaters partici- pate in the traditional post- competition exhibition. Also: men’s 50-kilometer cross-country skiing; wom- en’s 500-meter short track speed skating; men’s 5,000- meter relay short track skating. In hockey: the Sth and 7th place games, as well as the bronze medal match- New code requested for forests Four B.C. forest industry trade associations today called on the Government of British Columbia to authorize by statute a code of forest practices. They also proposed that the Minister of Forests assess compliance of government and industry forest operations against the code through a system of audits conducted by outside consultants indepen- dent of government. 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