Gault

An 11th-hour decision by a New York state appeals court yesterday will give professional football players Willie Gault and Greg Harrell a second chance to make the U.S. Olympic bobsled team.The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that ordered a halt to new push trials for the team this weekend.The unanimous ruling by the four-member, mid-level appeals court will allow the pair to participate in another round of 1992 Olympic trials today and tomorrow at Altenberg, Germany.

Minnesota Vikings running back Herschel Walker got his first taste of riding down a bobsled run yesterday.Walker and driver Brian Shimer covered the 1,430-meter Olympic bobsled course at Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1 minute, 2.03 seconds, about five or six seconds off what is considered a good run.Walker said he wasn't out to break any records, but rather to get experience in the sled and on the refrigerated track."

LOS ANGELES -- Like one of his Los Angeles Raiders teammates, Willie Gault never was satisfied with one sport. Or even two.A football and track star at the University of Tennessee, he discovered a diversion for the winter while watching on television as a former high hurdles gold medalist, Willie Davenport, pushed a bobsled for the United States in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.Gault didn't know bobsled, but he did know that Davenport and...