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NAME: Graham Morfitt

HOME TOWN: West Vancouver
EVENT: Javelin

AGE: 27

PERSONAL BEST: 70.4m
COMPETING ON: Saturday, Aug.
27 and Sunday, Aug. 28.

Morfitt, a member of the
NorWesters since the age of 10, fin-
ished third at the Nationals earlier
this summer to qualify for the
Commonwealth Games.

The Sentinel graduate’s expecta-
tion for his first Commonwealth
experience is to be the top Canadian
at the meet.

“My parents moved to Victoria a
few years back, so I'm really looking
forward to competing in their home
town,” Morfitt says.

His previous international experi-
ence includes competing at the
World Juniors in Greece in 1986, and
a number of university competitions
as a member of the SFU track and
field team.

His competition on the Canadian
team includes top-ranked Larry
Steinke of Lethbridge, Alberta, and
Quebec’s Louis Brault.

Another highlight for Morfitt will
be competing on the same team as
fellow Sentine! and SFU team mem-
ber Sara McGladdery.

NAME: Alison Sydor
HOME TOWN: West Vancouver
EVENT: Cycling, teain time trial
COMPETING ON: Sunday, Aug.
1.
An injury that forced Sydor to
pull out of the Tour de France

Feminine last month shouldn't be a
problem for the veteran cyclist.

The North Vancouver native is
part of the four-member women’s
time trial team.

“To the cyclist it feels more like a
metre,” Sydor says of the close quar-
ters involved in the time trial event,
which often involves competitors
drafting mere centimetres from the
bike in front of them. “It is some-
thing you get used to, and as a team,
you know each other's riding styles
so weil that it is like a dance rather
than a race.”

Like her teammate, and fellow
North Shore resident, Leslie
Tomlinson, Sydor competes in both
road racing and mountain bike racing
events on the international stage.

Although it is a relatively new
discipline, Sydor has mastered the
mountain bike style and has a num-
ber of top-three finishes to her credit
on the World Cup circuit.

She competes for the professional

Kahlua cycling team when not com-
peting for her country.
The 50 km time trial race will be
held on the Patricia Bay Highway
circuit in North Saanich, Sidney and
Central Saanich,

NAME: Leslie Tomlinson
HOME TOWN: North Vancouver
EVENT: Cycling, team time trial
AGE: 34
COMPETING ON:
2h.

Making the switch from athletics
to cycling didn’t slow Tomlinson
down.

A standout endurance athlete at
Sentinel and Simon Fraser
University, the national cycling team
member started taking bike riding
seriously in 1988. She has been a
full-fledged member of the national
tearm for the past four years, and like
Alison Sydor, has enjoyed success
on the World Cup mountain bike cir-
cuit.

As marketing services manager of
the Earls restaurant chain, Tomlinson
has juggied a business career with
cycling for the past few years.

“This team is probably one of the
strongest women’s teams Canada has
ever had,” she says of the team.
“We've got a great team work ethic.”

At the world championships in
Oslo last year, the team finished an
impressive sixth overall.

Sunday, Aug.

BRREE 1994 EC Lions Team
Poster to the First 15,000 Fans.

Gates Open at 5:36 pm
Gums bay Spenser: Aly Coonan

Great seats still avaiable

THE COMMONWEALTH
Games in Victoria represents
the only major international
sporting event that Canada
will host this decade.

By A.P. McCredie
Sports Reparter

And if you haven't bought tick-
ets for the historic Games, don't
worry. You still have time to get
good seats for most events, includ-
ing the opening and closing cere-
monies.

Due to finalization of seating
configurations and the return of
blocks of tickets that were held for

sponsors and international tour
operators, some seats for previous-
ly sold-out events are currently up
for public sale.

Tickets are now available for
both preliminaries and finals of all
sports at the Games.

Ticket prices range from a low
of $10 for lacrosse, lawn bow]s
and shooting, to upwards of $60
for the finals in athletics, swim-
ming and boxing.

The average ticket price is $25.

Tickets for the opening and
closing ceremonies range from $40
to $125, with half the available
seats priced at or under $55.

To date, £72,000 tickets have
been sold of the 360,000 available.

This may not seem like a substan-
tial number, but the organizing
committee reports that, since most
of the more expensive seats were
purchased first, close to 85% of
the projected $7.2 million revenue
has been achieved.

Tickets can be purchased from
TickeiMaster by phone (280-1994)
or in person at any TicketMaster
outlet.

Tickets are also being sold at
the individual venues on event
days.

According to media relations
spokesman Howard Markson,
seats are expected to Sell very
quickly as the Aug. 18 opening
ceremonies approaches.

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