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store in a pickup truck.

“Irs a lot of fun fixing up
an old house,” she said of her
unique off-season training. “At
the end of cach day you could
see the progress you had
made.”

With the help of her moth-
er, the 31-year-old Sydor plans
to convert the character house
into a. bed and breakfast.
Despite being away from her

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the quiet
Victoria appeals to her.

“The trails, obviously,
aren’t like they are on the
North Shore, burt with the
National Cycling Centre there
(Victoria) I still had a good
off-season,” Sydor said. And
she didn’t have to give up her
passion: ice hockey. Off-sea-
sons past, Sydor was a regular
at both Lonsdale and West Van
Arena.

“I had to go through the
whole ‘I’m new” thing again,”

Cyclist finds solace in Victoria -

atmosphere of

she said of plaving at a
Victoria-area rink. “Each guy
had to check me once to see
what Pd do, you know, the
typical scuff.”

And since Nike, one of her
sponsors, shipped her their lat-
est hockey gear throughout
the winter, she became popular
with her teammates and oppo-
nent: “They all wanted to
check out my stuff.”

The same could not be said
of her World Cup mountain
bike competition.

Svdor won the season
opening race in Napa,
California in last March, and
says she feels the best she has in
a long time. The three-time
World Champion has served
notice that whoever wants to
win the World Cup champi-
onship is going to have to beat
her for it.

Syidive is back home in
North Vancouver for a few
days before heading to
Portugal for the next World
Cup event.

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