BS - Sunday, October 3,.1982 - North Shore News: AND DOWN. ander | ‘Canadian swimmers and. . coaches at the Com- monwealth Games_ j A bit of : a pity: It would x have been so nice to think }; .. we ..could participate as athle Sand not as: “pseudo. macho heavies.attempting to intimidate their hosts outside os Ah,. yes: It was only. ten years ago. this past tt ay when the whole country went wild ve _ Psat is a cheer? ppcogeett id ihe other night “ s ‘What ol cross‘is_ it annual t average ‘undisputed leaders of the world’. along, going fo be a rout: - Only. wh jwould faye tert Cro op | Rabteabie oe “es Bull. - shock; the: : . It was the beginning of the what a fe rs had been | realization that-Canada was © saying f years. "We" were no longer ‘all alone’ at the top. It. was the first-time the | NHL: had ‘met the ‘Soviet - puck chasers and, if you remember, ‘we’ were faally - going to show them just.how - the game was really played, ~ ‘They had been winning: ; this amateur thing for years, but’ we knew, deep down, that they couldn’t handle the — rough stuff nor the pure ~ exuberance of the pros. Remember?: And the pictures that came out when the Soviets. "Rabbits, Xecars, ‘hears, K-cars & all imports equipmen q . others which “exposed the. . Of their “Your. car sw ni ly designed and specially