| Dream soured _| Miolsons fill World Cup MOLSON BREWERIES recently announced their sponsorship of the World Cup Downhill for men FROM PAGE B2 liked that chance, not that | would have done anything, but | would have liked to have tried, so consequently with Lloyd we have always encouraged him to do it and get it out of his system.’’ And in 1980, Lloyd Gus, Priscilla and Del Guss’ first son of four, made the Cana- dian team bound for the Moscow Olympics. It is a sad irony that like his grand- father and mother before, Lioyd’s dream soured when Canada boycotted the Moscow Games. Priscilla could empathize with her son and she says the whole family was bitterly disappointed. Not that the family is living through Lloyd. Priscilla says she and Delbert are behind their boy all the way but they don’t push him and she is not bitter about her father’s deci- sion about her career. To her not going to Melbourne ts on- ly a regret and talking to her now you sult hear the voice of the young girls from the Saskatchewan praines who loved to run. Priscilla talks about Lloyd as a hitle boy and how strong he was. At eight and one half months Lloyd was walking and soon he was a running, jumping terror. By the age of two, little Lloyd was the tastest baby on the block. It got to the point where the Guss family had to leash Lloyd with a harness when they went out for a stroll. *“‘It was the only we could control him,’” says Priscilla, ex- asperated, even now, 20 odd years later. During his school days, Lloyd was a good but far from outstanding = sprinter. Priscilla thought his running career would end when he graduated. Lloyd had other things in mind. He didn’t have the pure speed necessary for sprinting so he moved to the hurdles and settled on the 400 metre race where his Strength would be a_ real asset. At 6'2"° 185 Ibs. 1 Jovd is a strong long-simding run. ner and his subsequent suc- cess earned him a scholarship at the University of Cahfornia tike fhe movie industiy, stheon micro chips and surt ing. the hurdling is excetlent in) Cahtoenia local meets Llovd savs down there had better talent than the Cana dian Nationals He wate hea the flowing power of Amerca's best hurdiers and he emulated ther technique His ctlorts pand off at Pro vost, Urahb our a -LYk> ference mect “Do remebmer can that in the trace | was comeentiating so hard | wasn't cven aware of the others at all and at about 240) metres ita the race 1 tNecked my competition aad Pwasin dast place lt Mashed RAY’S BARBER SHOP 111 East 2nd St.. N.V; . 988-1412 . AG Herebening anes styling beasascotventote darters Sentors Cut $5 Toesday Ssaburdary through my mind, ‘! have gone out the fastest | have ever gone out tn my life and | am in last.” | said, ‘I can’t come in tast. I just don’t want to come in last.” He didn’t come in last. He came second last. Immediate- ly after, he phoned his mom. ‘*He was very, very excited and it was kind of cute because he doesn’t just phone me and say, ‘Well Mom, | ran it in 49.9. He described the whole race and at the very end he told me the time,”” she says. The official time of 49.98 was a Canadian record. Now Lloyd has a new task. lan Newhouse of Edmonton eclipsed his time with a 49.80 tun. Lloyd wants his record back and he'll get it if he can make good on his aim of run- ning a low 49 by the Urympic team trails. He doesn’t want a few potnt seconds, the bat of an eyelash, to keep him out of Los Angeles. It wouldn’t be right. The trials are still months away and Llioyd isn’t in a hurry. He is patient. Priscilla, Delbert, even Lloyd himself, say that patience is his biggest asset. He won’t overtrain and peak too early or hurt himself. And there’s another who agrees with that assessment of Lloyd. That's Lioyd's grandfather on the other side, Harry Guss. Harry ts a man of the B.C. north coun- try. He’s pushing 80 these days, and is a relic from the age of Dangerous Dan McGrew when the closest store was five miles on horseback and hght came trom kerosene and candles. Although he used to be a good racer, Harry is quick to point out that his grandson gets his speed from Priscilla’s side of the family. And in- henting a 72 year old itch, that’s where Lloyd probably gets a little of the deter- mination that has kept him going through the years. “He always went and done his practices even when he came to visit me here,’” says Harry who tives inp New Westminster these days eu te kets © 8 Nours wosteue tron ¢ weekends of Dac 17 YB Complete reotats with shi brakes tao ang Den ine ludes eS te heats eo twee Mout lessons 8 odeogtete canilaty watt. oh Deaheos SKI WITH US! EARLY BIRDS XMAS SKI WEEK GUARANTEED SUCCESS Call Mt. Seymour today: March 11, Columbia. This is the sixth straight year that a men’s World Cup downhill race has been spon- sored in Canada by Molson. The World Downhill will be the final race of the 1983-84 men’s downhill season, and if history repeats, will be the race that decides the overall men’s World Cup downhill title. Last year, the overall title was won by Austria’s great Franz Klammer at the Molson World Downhill at Lake Louise. In addition to announcing the race, Molson’s also wishes to acknowledge the new Whistler Festival Socie- ty, which has been formed to co-ordinate a week-long series of festival events revolving around the 1984, at Whistler Mountain, British downhill contest. Founding members of the WFS are Whistler Mountain Ski Coporation, Blackcomb Skiing Enterprise, Municipality of Whistler, Whistler Resort Association and the Whistler Chamber of Commerce. General manager of the Society is Brian Moran of Whistler. Interest in the Molson World Downhill at Whistler will be extremely high. Toronto’s Todd Brooker enters this year’s World Cup downhill season as _ the number one ranked skier while Toronto’s Steve Pod- borski, winner of the overall title two years ago is coming back from a serious leg injury and has had an outstanding training season. Canucks score at gas pumps FIVE CANUCK players will be pumping gas at Mountain Highway and 27 Street Esso, North Vancouver on Sunday between 1 and 3. pm, as part of the ‘‘Thankful Tankful’’ fund. They are: Jiri Bubla, Lars Molin, Rick Lanz, Tiger Williams and Richard Brodeur. North Shore Esso dealers are among many throughout B.C. who are supporting the Timmy Telethon for crippled children by donating a penny for every litre pumped to the fund. Additionally, Imperial! Ort will match that amount penny for penny to make a total of two cents a litre (9 cents a gallon) to aid B.C 's 25,000 handicapped children. 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