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Article: Bronze medal within reach for U.S. sled
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 28, 1988
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CALGARY, Alberta A medal could heal a lot of wounds on the U.S.
bobsled team. And Brent Rushlaw, the veteran driver who sidestepped
the Willie Gault controversy, put his four-man sled USA1 into medal
contention Saturday with two strong runs.
Only 0.19 of a second separated Rushlaw from the bronze medal
going into today's final two heats.
The leaders after two heats were defending four-man gold
medalist Wolfgang Hoppe of East Germany at 1 minute, 53.47 seconds
and last weekend's two-man gold medalist Ianis Kipours of the Soviet
Union (1:54.00). Hoppe bettered the track record by more than a
second on his first run.
Rushlaw brought USA1 down the 4,838-foot course in 1:54.39 on
runs of ...