WEDNESDAY
duly 31, 1996

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Alison Sydor (left) won the silver, medal in

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_ BY ANDREW MCCREDIE

Sports Editor
THE hazy heat of Atlanta contained a sil-

. ver lining for two North Shore
_ Olympians.

Alison Sydor finished second in yesterday's first-ever
Olympic women's mountain bike race, 1.06 minutes
behind gold medalist Paola Pezzo of
Italy. Over 35,000 spectators lined 2?"
the Georgia International Horse
Park course on a hot Tuesday
afternoon to watch the much-
anticipated event and two-time
world champion. Sydor contest the
sport's first Olympic gold medal.

Sydor stayed with the lead pack during

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‘the first of three 10.6-km (6.6 miles) laps,

then broke away with Pezzo in the second, The Italian
then pulled away from Sydor in the last hatf of the second
lap and continued to distance herself from Sydor in the
third and final lap.

North Vancouver’s Lesley Tomlinson crashed early,
but fought back to finish 13th overall.

And in rowing, ‘North Vancouver's Jessica Monroe

won a silver medal as the Canadian women’s eight dug
deep the Jast 500 metres of their 2,000-metre race fo pass
two boats for second place.

Monroe walked away frum competitive rowing fol-
lowing the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The’
North Vancouver university student retumed from Spain
with two gold medals, one from the women’s eight. the
other in the straight four.

As other integral members of the national squad also
huag up their oars following the ‘92 Games, speculation
was that Canada's chance of repeat-

ing at Atlanta the outstanding suc-

cess of four years ago on Spanish

water was slim, ;

But Just year Monroe returned

to the national program, hoping to

add another Olympic medal to the

two golds she won in Barcelona. Her

addition to the young women’s cight crew.

gave the team much-needed experience head-

ing into Adanta. Apart from Monroe, the only retuming

member from the Barcelona crew was coxswain Lesley
Thompson.

Defying the critics and stunning the competition, the
Canadian women's cight stormed from a fourth-place

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