OLYMPIC REPORT 42 DAYS TO THE GAMES : Some Tickets Sent With Wrong Times

About 170,000 tickets to the Summer Olympics have the wrong starting time because of schedule changes made after they were printed.

Olympic organizers in Atlanta said they will send ticket buyers a notice of the changes, but will not give refunds or exchanges because of the problems.

Meanwhile, walk-up sales of about 3.2 million remaining tickets begin Saturday at three Atlanta locations.

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Cycler Connie Paraskevin-Young made her fifth Olympic team by defeating Christine Witty in the women’s match sprint in a battle of two-sport stars at Trexlertown, Pa.

Paraskevin-Young made the Winter Olympic team in 1980 and 1984 as a speedskater, before going to the 1988 and 1992 games as a track cycler.

Paraskevin-Young, of Corona del Mar, won the best-of-three competition in two straight sprints, coming from behind in the first race and holding off Witty in the second.

Earlier, Jame Carney upset defending national champion Mariano Friedick, who injured his knee in a spill, in the first round of the men’s points race.

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Blaine Wilson came from second place in the final event to capture the 1996 National Gymnastics Championship over defending champion John Roethlisberger at Knoxville, Tenn.

John MacReady, Chainey Umphrey, Chris Waller, Stephen McCain and Scott Keswick of UCLA were among the 14 who advanced to the Olympic trials later this month in Boston.

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Six players, including Chad Moeller of USC and Jack Jones of Cal State Fullerton, were cut from the U.S. baseball team.

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Fencer Peter Cox secured a spot on the Olympic team before the national championships after the U.S. Fencing Assn. ran all the point-total scenarios and determined that no one could catch him. . . . Middle blocker Elaina Oden of Irvine had 10 kills and outside hitter Tara Cross-Battle of Long Beach had eight to lead the U.S. women’s national volleyball team to a 15-8, 15-6, 15-5 victory over Germany’s national team in Koblenz.