Sports People

Sat., Dec. 21, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Cycling star Lance Armstrong hopes to ride competitively in 1997 after tests showed there’s no cancer in his body… . Tom Gullikson was reappointed captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team… . Rick Hendrick, whose drivers won Winston Cup championships the past two years, pleaded innocent to a 15-count federal indictment accusing him of building a $2.2 billion car-dealing empire by bribing American Honda executives… . Matt Chojnacki of Aurora, Colo., won the gold medal, Sebastien Foucras of France the silver and Mariano Ferrario of Winston Salem, N.C., the bronze after the men’s aerials final was washed out and placings from the semifinals became the final results for a World Cup freestyle skiing event in Piancavallo, Italy… . Defending World Cup downhill champion Luc Alphand of France scored his first victory of the season as he edged Atle Skaardal of Norway by 15-hundredths of a second in Val Gardena, Italy… . In Albuquerque, N.M., 17-year-old Mike Cito, a former high school football player who allegedly wore a razor-sharp helmet buckle that slashed opposing players, was charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.

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