ATHLETE OF THE
WEEK... Murphy's
Law got the best of the
News’ sports depart-
ment last Sunday as
we ran the incorrect
photo in the Athlete of
the Week feature.

ATHLETE OF the
weck — Michelle
Yeates.

Coiling weed’s
Michelle Yeates was
the athlete of the week |
& last Sunday, and we
ran a photo of Sey-
cove's Molly Rae.

LIENS PY aiccounacretsrara

NEWS photo Mike Wakadield

Eye contact

LITTLE MATTHEW dollates the common inyth of keeping your ayes on the ball
as ke takes a big swing during recent T-ball action at the Lonsdale recreation

centre.

Kayaker Gualifies for Olympic team

BY ANDREW MCCREDIE
_ Sports editor

“TF WAS the most stress-

ful at-race experience
I’ve ever had,” says Lions
Bay whitewater kayaker
Margaret Langford.

And. also. her most impor-
tant step yet up the 1996
‘ Olympic ladder,

. ‘The 25-year-old whitewater
slalom. kayaker overcame a
’ disastrous: first run down the
Oceoo . River
Tennessee last Friday to come
back and secure the first of two

course in:

women’s spots on the
Canadian Olympic Team pad-
diing for Atlanta.

On her first of two nuns at
the world-class competition,
the Lions Bay resident flipped
over just after passing Gate 22,
missirig the final three gates
while struggling to right her
kayak.

“Basicaily it ali came down
to my last run,” Langford says,
teferring to the final race but

_ also to her years of hard work

leading up to a three-minute
ride down 288,000 cubic feet
of raging whitewater that
would decide her Olympic fate.

“You can simulate race con-

ditions in  train-
ing,” Langford
says of the pres-
sure. “But there’s
no way you can
recreate what I
felt on Friday.”
Despite hav- §
ing to wait over .
two hours to get
her chance at
redemption,
Langford . kept
focused and nailed her final
run, guaranteeing herself a
plane ride to Adanta in July.
She finished !3th on the

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strength of her
final ran, and
moved up @ spot
in the finals to

finish 12th, beat-

_ing out Ottawa‘s
Sheryl Boyle for-
top Canadian
honors.

“It’s not what
I'd consider real-
ly - good runs,”
she reflects. “But

- the speed is there
so I'm feeling’

pretty confident about the way ©

the last couple of years training
has gone in preparing me for

_ the Games.”

veryone |

Springtime is |
peak ski time

Blackcomb open in May.

BY MICHAEL BECKER
News Editor

FAIR WEATHER skiers
will. slip along their
snowy slice of heaven
well into May this year
at Blackcomb.

Spring skiing is at its
peak right now.

Two recent sun and snow-
packed days on the mountain
showed just how right every-
thing can be with the world.

The efficiency of the

sophisticated network of

high-speed quad and triple
chairs in place at Blackcomb
really sinks in when the
mountain is not’ overly
crowded.

Lots of people have
already traded in -skis for
golf clubs and mountain
bikes by this point of the sea-
son.

Our 38th Year

-DON YAYLOR
Sama owner, some high

tech eavipped shop ey

The math is simple:, a
thinned crowd equals a day
without line lifts. The skiing
is non-stop and literally.
breath-taking.

This past weekend it was.’
still possible to ski from
Blackcomb’s grand. upper
glacial reaches right down to
the base village.

A tip: ride up the lifts as a
single and you'll: meet™alt
kinds of interesting people.,

The world-class” resort’:
attracts skiers from ali ‘over. ;

On one day I met_a stu-
dent from Prague, an-invest-
ment. banker from ‘Les
Angeles and. a woman ‘o
holiday from Toronto. :'

Discount prices ‘come:
available this time of year.

Gn the May 18-19: lon,
weekend Blackcomb: hosts
the Mountain Melidown.:

The : fun’ include:
Slush Cup and «Kokanee

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