
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 18, 1990                   TAG: 9006180099
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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USOC PASSES PLAN FOR TRAINING CENTERS

Passage of a master plan guiding the funding, use and operation of U.S. Olympic training centers was the most significant outcome of a weekend meeting of the U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors in San Diego.

The master plan commits the USOC to funding the three centers sufficiently to support "world-class" training programs needed to keep the United States competitive internationally.

It also assigns sports to individual training centers and priority to elite athletes and U.S. national teams. Sixteen sports were assigned to the Chula Vista, Calif., center, including diving, synchronized swimming, water polo, volleyball, tennis, diving and rowing.

Meanwhile, a report delivered at Sunday's session said East Germany is willing to sell "to all comers" elements of the sports technology and training techniques that made it a dominant Olympic power during the last 20 years.

It is among the biggest capitalistic ventures by East Germany since reforms brought down the wall built by Communists during the height of the Cold War.

Purchase of the information by the United States "may provide us with a shortcut to our own needs," said the report by Andrew Kostanecki, chairman of the USOC's Sports Equipment and Technology Committee, and Jay Kearney, the organization's acting Sports Science program director.

Thomas Tinsley Rogers Sr., a former football coach at Wake Forest, died Saturday at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 79.

Rogers, a native of Hinton, W.Va., was a 1933 graduate of Duke, where he was a line coach with Wallace Wade for four years. From 1938 to 1940, he served as line coach at Wake Forest and then served as ends coach at Clemson for two years.

Finland's national team defeated a squad of Big East basketball all-stars 74-72 at Helsinki as the conference began a six-game exhibition tour of Finland and the Soviet Union. Pekka Markkanen, who helped lead Kansas to a 29-4 record last season, scored 20 points for Finland. Rod Sellers of Connecticut led the Big East with 18 points and eight rebounds.

Calgary Flames right wing Sergei Makarov, winner of the Calder Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year, also earned a spot on the NHL's All-Rookie Team selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.

Makarov was joined on the forward line by Rod Brind'Amour of St. Louis and Mike Modano of Minnesota. Hartford's Brad Shaw and Edmonton's Geoff Smith were selected on defense. Winnipeg's Bob Essensa was chosen as the goaltender.

American Mark Allen won the Nice (France) Triathlon for the seventh time in a record time of 5:50:52, taking 3 minutes, 42 seconds off his 1989 mark.

by CNB