Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 17, 1994 TAG: 9408180052
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
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However, U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar indicated he might grant an injunction before the season opens so that the student, Lorenzo A. Thompson, can play. Doumar said he wanted to give the league's board of appeals time to rule on whether Thompson can get a waiver of the age limit.
``Right now I don't think it is necessary to issue an injunction,'' Doumar said after listening to several hours of testimony on the age limit and how the league grants waivers.
Thompson, a running back and Granby's leading scorer last year as a junior, filed a lawsuit last week after the executive committee of the Charlottesville-based VHSL refused his request to play his senior year.
John Krimsky Jr., who has helped pad America's Olympic pockets by negotiating multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals, was chosen interim executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Krimsky, deputy secretary general and chief fund-raiser who has been with the USOC since 1986, was picked for the interim post in a conference call of the committee's executive board.
In Indianapolis, Jim Courier said he is taking a break from tennis until he is properly motivated to return to the sport.
After losing to Alex Corretja of Spain 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the RCA Championships, Courier said he put his rackets in his bag indefinitely.
``They are going to stay there until my heart tells me to pick them up again - and I don't know if that is going to be one day, one week, one month, one year, 10 years. I don't know,'' he said.
In Palermo, Sicily, Britain's Chris Boardman beat Francis Moreau of France by a wide margin - about 12 seconds - to capture the men's pursuit title in the World Track Cycling Championships.
The British cyclist completed the 2.48-mile distance at Palermo Velodrome in 4 minutes, 27.742 seconds, at an average speed of 33.399 mph.
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