Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1999)
< t \ « <***• • " ■4* . 4 « 1 4 I ? ,',w-S" July 14, 1999 PageB3 <X he U o rtU n ò (Ûhaerucv ». , —V Armstrong Ahead in Tour de France B n IAN PHILLIPS © T he A ssociated P ress SESTRIERES, Italy (AP) - Lance A rm strong took a huge step tow ard victory in the Tour de France today by surging ahead o f his rivals on the tough first mountain stage and keep ing a firm hold on first place. The A m erican’s victory in the race’s ninth stage, a 133.4-mileclimb in the Alps, w as his third stage vic tory, after the prologue and Sunday’s tim e trial. He now leads the field by a com m anding 6 m inutes, 3 seconds. W ith about six m iles left, the A m erican left the leading pack o f seven riders w ith a decisive sprint. N o one was able to catch him. Crossing the finish line, he held his arm s aloft and looked to the sky. In second place was Switzerland ’ s A lex Zulle, 31 seconds behind, fol low ed by Spain’s Fernando Escartin, one m inute, 26 seconds behind. Then cam e the tortuous clim b to the jagged, snow -capped peaks o f the Col du Gabbier, where Armstrong edged ahead o f the pack and arrived fifth at the summit. T he rain then stopped, and after a rapid, dry descent, the T exan got stronger and stronger, and nobody could m atch his efforts. The m ountain stages were seen as a big test for Armstrong, not known as a top climber. But he has shown ex em plary form since the Tour began. The A m erican is enjoying an in credible com eback from testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain before it w as diagnosed in O ctober 1996. T he 27-year-old Texan has been training hard forthe mountain stages. “The phony w ar is over,” he said after S unday’s victory in the tim e trial. “N ow the real one begins.” Local Athlete Competes in First United States Scholar- Athlete Game GTECH’S Contribution Provides Opportunity for Local Students World Cup Soccer Created Answers! ...Questions? O v er 1600 s c h o la r-a th le te s and scholar-fine artists rep resen tin g all 50 states p a rtic ip a te d in th e in a u gural U n ites S tate s S c h o la r-A th lete G am e from Ju n e 26 thro u g h Ju ly 2 at the U n iv e rsity o f R hode Island and in N e w p o rt, R hode Is land, H annah M acK ay o f P o rtlan d rep rese n ted O reg o n in the G am es. M a c K a y 's p a rtic ip a tio n in the gam e w as m a d e p o s s ib ly by the c o n trib u tio n o fG T E C H C o rp o ra tion. G T E C H m ade a c o rp o ra te d o n a tio n o f $ 2 6 ,0 0 0 - ea ch o f th e ir 26 site s s p o n so rin g a s tu d e n t in t h e i r c o m m u n ity fo r $1000. T he d o n atio n co v ers tra n s p o rta tio n , ro o m an d b o a rd , and e n try fees. “ W e a re p ro u d to s u p p o rt the c o m m u n itie s in w h ic h w e w o rk ." said B ill O ’C o n n o r, c h a irm a n and c h ie f e x e c u tiv e o f f ic e r o f G T E C H . “ T he in a u g u ra tio n o f th e U S S c h o la r A th le te G am es p ro v id e d us th e o p p o rtu n ity to rea ch o u t to c h ild re n o f o u r c o m m u n ities and o ffe r th em a ch a n c e to ex p a n d th e ir e d u c a tio n and life e x p e rie n c e s .” “ O u r sp o n so rsh ip o f the US S c h o la r-A th le te G am e s d e m o n strates G T E C H ’s co m m itm en t to inv o lv e its e lf in ev ery co m m u n ity th a t it s e r v e s , ” s a id R o b e r t K ilin g m an , a c co u n t gen eral m an ag er fo r O reg o n . “ W e ’re p a rtic u larly p leased that H annah M acK ay w as ab le to rep resen t O regon d u r ing this w eek lo n g ce le b ra tio n o f ac ad e m ic , ath letics and the a rts .” S ch o lar-ath lete p articip ated in one o f 14 sp o rts p ro g ram in clu d in g b aseball, bask etb all, b rid g e, chess, field h ockey , g o lf, so ccer and te n nis. S cholar-fine artists chose from six p ro g ra m s in clu d in g art, ch o ir, d an ce and th eater. M acK ay , 17, co m p eted in the ch o ir co m p o n en t o f the G am es. A ju n io r h onors stu d e n t at F ran k lin H igh S chool, M a c K A y is a m e m b e r o f the F ra n k lin co n c ert ch o ir and the re flec tio n s so lo en sem b le. In her spare tim e, she w orks on v ario u s c o m m u n ity s e r v ic e p r o j e c t s thro u g h her ch u rch y o u th group. D uring the w eek, G T E C H in v ite d the 26 stu d en ts to v isit th eir c o rp o ra te h e a d q u arte rs in W est G r e e n w ic h , R h o d e I s la n d so G T E C H e m p lo y e e s c o u ld w e l co m e the stu d en ts and w ish them luck. E ach stu d en t rec eiv ed in rec o g n itio n o f th eir p articip a tio n a G T E C H hat. G T E C H is the w o rld ’s lead in g su p p lie r o f co m p u terized o n lin e lottery p rod u cts and services. C u r ren tly , G T E C H has co n tra cts to sup p ly an d /o r o p erate lo ttery sy s tem for 29 U .S. cu sto m ers and 52 cu sto m e rs o u tsid e o f the U nited States. F or m ore inform ation about the C om pan y , p lease v isit G T EC H w eb site at h ttp ://w w w .y te ch .co n i. PGA and LPGA events. Television and print ads are upcom ing. A dula tion is everywhere. Nobody expects normal. On Satur day, the final was the most-watched soccer game ever on U.S. network tele vision, with ABC estimating an audi ence o f 40 million. The game posted a w ho w atched it. “The goal is to take w hat w e’ve learned about w om en’s equity, w hat w e’ve learned about w om en as equal partners and not subordinates, and e x p o rt it a r o u n d th e w o r ld ,” Steinbrecher said. "I think w e ’re on the cutting edge o f a revolution.” © T he A ssociated P ress LOS ANGELES (AP) - The three- week joy nde to the W orld Cup title isn’t over for the U.S. w om en’s team. The celebrations have only just begun. The critical question, though, is what lasting effect the m ost celebrated team and m ost successful event in w om en’s sports history w ill have. W ill the legacy o f the w om en’s team be “establishing this W om en’s W orld Cup as the event responsible for the developm ent o f w om en’s sp o rts,” as tournam ent org an izer M arla M essing predicted? M ight soccer no longer be rel egated to the backpages o f A m erica’s sports section, or not included at all? C ould w hat all o f those im pres sive grass-roots num bers - as m any under-12s playing the gam e as any other sport - finally translate into m ore popularity on a general level for soccer in the U nited States? “The legacy I w ant to leave is that no longer can anyone take w om en athletes lightly,” U.S. forwardTiffeny M ilbrett said. “There are no m ore excuses for not em bracing the game. Y ou ca n ’t say it will not draw; we proved that wrong from the first game o f this tournam ent. Y ou ca n ’t say it is not m arketable and you ca n ’t say it is not popular.” N o U.S. w om en’s team ever has been em braced by the public the w ay this squad was on its w ay to the final, w hich it w on Saturday 5 -4 on penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie through 120 Team jubilant over winning U.S. Women's championship. m in u te s . E v e r s in c e B ra n d i C hastain’s kick w on it, the women have been on a w hirlw ind tour that took them to Disneyland, to dow n town Los Angeles and, today, across Franco Plays His Way to GMO Win B n GREG BEACHAM © T he A ssociated P ress M IL W A U K E E (A P ) - C arlos Rafael DeLA Cruz, GTECH's vice president of Latin American operations, welcomes Hanna MacKay to Rhode Island. the continent for television appear ances in N ew York. M ore personal appearances are scheduled, w ith several players ap pearing in g o lf pro-am s preceding 13.3 overnight rating and a 32 share for the network. 4 percent more than the previous record, a 12.8 for the 1994 men’s World Cup final, also played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. O n S u n d a y , th e y w e re th e g u ests o f h o n o r at D isn e y lan d , the ce n te rp ie c e s o f a p ara d e a t ten d ed . n a tu ra lly , by h u n d red s o f yo u n g g irls an d b o y s. T h en th ey w ere h o n o red at a rally in d o w n tow n LA, w h ere th ey w ere to ld th e ir b o n u se s, o rig in a lly set at $ 1 2 ,5 0 0 , w ere ra ise d to b etw e en $ 4 0 ,0 0 0 and $50,000. After some deserved tim e off, m ost o f the champions likely will gather for a victory tour, follow ed by the U.S. W om en’s Cup in early O c tober. Several veterans, including 33- year-old M ichelle Akers, w ho left the final after regulation tim e due to exhaustion and a slight concussion, might skip that event. M ost o f the U.S. w om en team mem bers w ant a professional league o f their own. And despite startup costs as high as $50 m illion, they sound determ ined to get it. “It’s tim e,” Millbrett said. “A nd it will happen.” “We never expected anything like what thisWorldCup turned into,"FIFA spokesman Keith Cooper said. “It has been wonderful for soccer and it has been vv underfill for the women athletes. “ But to think anyone can recreate this is unfair. This was ju st a very special, very memorable event.” Perhaps. B ut not in the m inds o f the women who won it and the people B n BARRY W IL N E R Franco would rather play than practice. Thanks to that philosophy, he's now the richest rookie in PGA Tour history. Franco shot a 5-under-par66 Sunday in the Greater Milwaukee Open and beat Tom Lehman by two strokes for his second tour victory in nine weeks. The son o f a Paraguayan greenskeeper en tered the GM O a Her two weeks o f vaca tion because he wan ted tournament pres sure in the week be fore the British Open. “ I played very sim ple this week, no nervousness,” Franco said in halt ing English. “ I cam e here for prac tice, so to w in is ju st unbelievable." Thanks to his $414.000 winner’s check, he became the first tour rookie to exceed$ 1 million in earnings and moved into the top lOon this year’sm oney list. Franco, just one o f four multiple win ners on tour this year, pushed his yearly winnings to $ 1.38 million. His G M O victory also put him in som e elite com pany. T he last player to w in tw o titles as a rookie w as T iger W oods in 1996. But that doesn’t intimidate the lik able Franco, who disdains practice on tournament days, saying, “Practice is practice, tournament is tournam ent.” He also doesn’t like to slave over his clubs when h e’s at home in A suncion (“Vacation is vacation”). Franco played a fourth straight day ofsolid, unspectacular golf. He finished with a four-day score o f 20-under 264, the best 72-hole mark in GMO history. He trailed Jerry Kelly by one stroke entering the final round. But Kelly, a W isconsin native cheered by scores o f fans, fell o ff the pace early and never caught up. “I don’t have to worry about the other (golfers) when I’m playing the way I’m playing,” Franco said. “I didn’t think I would win this easy, but it’s very nice. Lehm an birdied the last tw o holes to slide in front o f K elly and take second at 266. “ 1 did a lot o f things right this w eek ... but (Franco) kept making birdies, and that’s w hat he needed to do. ., ’ Lehm an said. When Franco won the Compaq Clas sic in New Orleans in May, he skipped the previous two tour events, just as he did before the GMO. He became the first golfer since Greg Norman in 1989 to win in Milwaukee on his first try. Sale! Sale! Sale! 'Human Tiair 'Braiding 'Hair for ^Weaving 99«! $8 95 &Tlp «Hair «Products ‘Buy One ** (jet One Tree* Tommy Çear Tree 'Braids 'Wave Caps $095 $099 THE LARGEST MOST C O M P L e T e £Mrs. C’s ‘Wig & 'Hair Care Ce,1ter 707 'N'E Tremont • Portland, OT, 97212 (503)281-6525 I, P .> f •> & . <• .• 1 R E T A I L FABRIC STORE IN THE WEST July 6 through July 20,1999 PRINT SALE ALL PRINTS 30% OFF E3 ❖ Sale includes: Calico. Drapery and Upholstery Fabric, Bridal and Special Occasion, Silkies, Rayons, Children's Wear, Animal Fake Fur, Denim, Outerwear Fleece, Corduroy 0/ /o DRITZ NOTIONS 40 OFF SPECIAL SALE 2 DAYS ONLY July 16th & 17th 4ft % OFF if I S ' A I I F A B R IC I,.,I hunt'' I», \ \ttu i ir» I »V i operi nV« n til Opit, evtentletl nl.iv Limited to stock on hand! ‘On Select«* 'Heir Products AW • O ITD O O R WAREHOUSE SALE CONTINUES 1 (Mi Daily BF. SURE TO CHECK OUR STORE FOR “MANAGER’S SPECIALS *l>ixounis tin noi apph lo prewoMsh disunirne«! or market! down items RUMI not RS Mi A-IKpnm.imM 'Hip,., s\ll KD\N '» oo.it" "pm M \l>\\ looo.up -pm W H O lF M It HOI Rs MOVI Kl ‘ <",.m ' '"pm s \ l l KUN'» HOOflt’l sprit M \ | ) \ \ 11 ipm ihm ” 20 99 RETAIL - WHOLESALE 7 0 0 S.E. 122ndA ve. P o rtlan d . OR 252-9530 Visit our website at www tab™depot m m 1-8OO-392-3376