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: ' NEWS photo Pau! MeGrath
MEMBERS OF the North Shore Sapphires, a : synchronized swimming: club; work out under the
waichful eye of coach Tamara Davidson at Ron Andrews Pool. Team members (left to right) are
Cindy Yoshida, Robyn Kanes, Jasmine Courivin, Jennifer Kanes and Andrea Nacey. The club
returned from the B.C. Summer Games fast weekend where the duo of Robyn arid Jennifer
; Kanes won silver medals in the pairs competition.

best athletes together once every

. four years was a monumental pro- |
ject. It virtually would have been
impossible for individual sports to
stage their own world champi-
onships. .

THE WORLD Track and
Field Championships start
Friday i in Sweden, and every
‘time this biennial event
‘approaches, Tam reminded.

once more.of how. redundant - :

‘and unnecessary the 7

Olympic Games have oe :

‘become. ; .
Track and field i is ‘the centre.’

‘piece of the Olympics ‘and, going <="

back to ancient Greece where the :~

games were invented, was virtually ©

the only sport on display. Were it
to’be yanked from the modern
Games; the whole over-grown, -
over-hyped, over-expensive, over-
commercialized dinosaur, might

locale where the Games have bee!

* staged. But most of all, it has out

“But the invention of the. jet. air.

plane changed all that. As did guv--

ernment funding of amateur sport.

“As did the hitching of their promo- |:
tional and advertising programs by. -

many corporations to the amateur

",; Sports bandwagon.

Put all these factors together

© and now everything on the planet

that purports to be a sporis compe-
tition stages its own global cham- |
pionship. Some every four years,

some every two years and ‘many .< on

an annual basis.

MON. FRIDAY
i SATURDAY, SUNDAY

They don’t need an Olympics to %
. decide who is best in their'sport.’
-The only peopie who need the
Olympics are the stuffed shirt fos-.
sils on 1 the International Olympic :

= lived its usefulness, its tim sii
J reason for being. +:
~.. ‘When the French baron,”
“de Coubertin, revived the’ ws
_e Olympics a century. ago, he did so-.
° ‘in’ a world of rudimentary. commu.”

hopefully — just go. away into a.
‘comer. somewhere and die...

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