NORTH Vancouver
gymnast Breanne King
won the 1999 women’s
Elite Canada meet Dec.
9-12 in Montreai.

’ She was only sixth on the
first day of competition but
* finished day two in first place. .

King, who belongs to
- Flicka Gymnastics Club, was in
her first competition as a senior

~ Longbows

‘From previous page

- basketball team, but rather to-
predict the fixcure anid look at-
the past. The NHL and NBA
futures ‘in Vancouver depend
on someone — getting the
Canadian dollar up to 100
‘Asierican eagles, or, both

“those leagues ‘deciding’ to
become co-ops and instituting

“as 60-40 “split - “Of all ‘gate

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SPORTS

athlete. Her modest goal for
the event was a fifth-place fin-
ish.

The win caps a memorable
year for King, who also won
the Canada Games and
Canadian Junior tides in 1999.

Flicka teammates Nathalie
Balfour, West Vancouver (eight
place), Natasha Gowda, West
Vancouver (ninth), Cheryl
Berezan, Surrey (11th) and

sure beat

Edward wanted the young
guys practising archery for
upcoming competition against
France. They won the team
event at Crecy and, a couple of
centuries later, won again at

Agincourt. No doubt, the .

English longbows, arche:
me of the millennium. ad
In‘singles competition, no
contest: Robin Hood. When
he heard abour the Swiss
champion, William Tell, shoot-
ing an apple off his son’s head,
Robin’ told: his merry: men: °
“You think that’s something?”
Thereupon he: placed a grape

; ‘on ; Maid’: Marion’s . bouffan'
“ hair- do and split it in two. The
. grape, that is.’

_ Horses’ were big news.
throughout. the _ millennium.

‘Paul Revere introduced ‘night

ig. Lady Godiva” revived’

: barehack riding. And if .you'
id

think: the Aga. Khan‘ hee.

‘ big money for top grade horse

flesh; he doesn’t come close to

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vhat Epsom Downs needed

system for.jaser hair
reatment is safe, gentle, quick & :
ttective. Just m minutes, your ski

Gymnast wits

Kayla Glover, Surrey (14th)
also made the tip.

Lise Leveille, the only
Flicka gymnast on the Olympic
team, was not required to
compete.

In the junior competition,
Flicka’s Tracey Rai of Delta

was seventh. Teammate Sarah .

Buchanan of North Vancouver

was 27th.
— Bob Mackin

Grizzlies

year-olds. They flipped a coin

‘ to decide who the race would

be named after. “Heads,”
salted the Earl of Derby. Heads
ic was. And that’s why, at
Epsom and Louisville each
year you're not watching, the

Epsom Bunbury and the.

Kentucky Bunbury.

Coolest bowler of the mil-
lennium? That would be Sir
Francis Drake. In the middle

Of a big game in Plymouth as

the Snanish Armada sailed up
“the Engtish Channel, he’ kept

on bowling and: told an aide:

he'd catch wm with the enemy

Ano! nut, -
“Henry. VI,

soresz loser of the millennium.
He bowled a:match against a
; gy named Sir Nicholas Carew
a large wager. Aiter Nick
‘upset the king, H refused

“to pay, sent hini to the tower

_ for treason and. then had him

- executed. is
ce guy, el, Maybe some: .

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Grizzlies: — ‘and. ma ybe the

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