U.S. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL ROUNDUP : O’Neill Gains Her Third Gold Medal in Swimming

A day after four festival swimming records were broken, four more fell Sunday night.

Cathy O’Neill of Richardson, Tex., won her second and third gold medals of the meet. She won the 400-meter individual medley in a record time of 4 minutes 51.44 seconds, bettering the 12-year-old record set by Michael Flaherty of Los Angeles and Patty Gavin of Syracuse, N.Y.

Later, O’Neill won the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.20. She won the 200 breaststroke Saturday night.

Rachel Joseph of Springfield, Ore., set her second festival record with a time of 1:03.58 in the 100 backstroke. The previous best was 1:03.88 by Theresa Andrews of Indianapolis in 1982. Saturday, Joseph set a 200 backstroke record.

Scott Tucker of Birmingham, Ala., won the 200 freestyle in a record of 1:51.61, breaking the mark of 1:52.20 set by Daniel Kanner of Minneapolis in 1990.

After missing out on the 200 freestyle gold to Tucker, Scott Jones of Houston anchored the winning 800 freestyle relay team, whose 7:34.54 time beat the festival record of 7:36.97 set in1990.

In other events:

--Alison Dunlap of Colorado Springs, Colo., won the 46.2-mile women’s cycling race in 2:00:55.2.

In the men’s race, Fred Rodriguez of Whittier and George Hincappie of Farmingdale, N.Y., clasped hands at the finish, with Rodriguez winning the 61-mile race in 2:21.45.

--In pairs ice skating, Karen Courtland of Whippany, N.J., and Todd Reynolds of Spring, Tex., won the gold medal. The bronze went to Stephanie Stiegler of Manhattan Beach and Lance Travis of Greensboro, N.C.

Michael Chack of Bricktown, N.J., won the men’s individual gold, while Amy Webster and Ron Kravette of Boston won the gold in ice dancing.

--The North men beat the South, 133-126, to set up the gold medal basketball game with the West, which beat the East, 104-94.

--It will be the South against the East for the women’s basketball gold medal after the South beat the North, 73-68, and the East defeated the West, 71-55.