SPRECHEN SIE SOCCER? North Vancouver's Dylan John Hughes will be one of 18 U-15 boys soccer players heading overseas this September to take part in a Canadian Soccer Association-sponsored development training camp in Duisburg, Germany. Hughes was one of six provincial players — and the only player from the Greater Vancouver area — named to the 18-member raster. ot ‘the Canadian Women’s Rugby . Championships this weekend. | . ational event’ “was hosted’ by Alberta “i in *s event will see 140 players on six sides Gniario, : Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec,: Manitoba and the host province i nny.-Turpin said. spec jo “this competition, because it: may. be the fast‘ one . ~ bz tt out for bragging rights. of B.C.-Women’s’ Rugby and. event chair | effort’ to. keep costs. down and ° attract: more pecially’ from the Atantic provinces —: the.’ Capilano club prepares for new season Jan-Christian Sorensen Sports Reporter forensen@nsnews.com TIME to rough it up again. The North Shore Capilano REC Premier League rugby club is about to embark on its new season. Head coach Tim Murdy is hopeful the side will be able to improve on a disappointing season last time around. The Wednesday, August 30, 2000 — North Shore News - 37 RUGGERS TEST THER: ‘MEDAL Carson Graham grad Aaron Vani helped the national U-18 men’s team gain gold at the Canadian championships in Alberta last week. On the women's side, Balmoral's Katie Smith and Carson Graham's Aidan McKinnon, Hilary Leith and Emily Richardson all helped the national U-19 women's Squad capture the bronze. team, which had secured ovo consecutive top-three finishes in 1997 and 1998, ended last season in eighth place in the dozen-team B.C. Premier League. . “We had a bit of a rebuild. “ing year last season,” said Rugby. Union is looking at holding the annual ‘a alternating. basis. in Montreal, Ortawa and ‘Toronto from ‘nov . tion “in n Turpin’ s eyes . host site means more teams can participate. ‘It: ver ‘that Vancouver won Pt get to host NEWS pheto Pat! McGrath THE Capilano RFC Premier League squad goes through the paces at a recent faking a bite a recent. edition of. - Spore Tearetel, ih iE wecks from now, by 915,000 athletes and _ : officials at the Sydney The usual stuff — apples, three. million cans of soda, 9,625 aliens of milk, 242,000 pounds of eef, 61,700 pounds of cheese and so on, ght down to the last item, 220 pounds of garlic... . Pe intriguing. The garlic, that is. Could it be ‘used illegally and become a banned substance in such face-to-face sports as wrestling, where a big overdose might distract an opponent from his game plan? Do I jest? I suppose I do. But one never knows, does one? The list of banned performance enhancers has grown so long, the possibility always exists. What it'a vampire from Th ransylvania shows up in the Greco-Roman event? The guy would be an atrromatic Joser. Garlic would have to go. Murdy. “There were a couple guys that retired and some were travelling.” Among the missing members were full- back Mike Chicas and number 8 Bill Wigglesworth, both of whom hung up the cleats. A number of last season’s absentees are returning to the fold, however. Ron Johnstone, "who was previously with the Canadian rugby development program out of Victoria, will again take to the field, as will UBC flanker Mike Langley. Craig McLaren will also be back as hook and winger Ryan Stewart has rejoined the squad after playing for an Australian side last year. Murdy remains optimistic: about his team’s chances this season. “If we remain healthy I think we'll have a really good opportunity at being right back up at the top,” said Murdy. “The guys are looking really sharp. We've got a really good mix this time around.” . Several law changes instituted by the International Rugby Football Board will greet players this scason and have likely an impact on the way the game is played. The most significant change, said Murdy, i is a change to the ruck — or tack- le. “You used to be able to come in from — the side but now you have to come in ftom the back,” said Murdy. “And as you come in you have to bind onto somebody where- as before you could just blast in.” Murdy said the changes are likely an attempt to both speed up the tilts while making them safer. * Competition among the players has been fierce on the Capilano side, which has been practising at least twice a week since * the beginning of August. One of the standeuts looking for a practice at Klahanie Field. The new season begins at home on Sept. 16. home at scrum half is North Vancouver's 's Sandy Inglis, said Murd ray. Sandy i is a really ented young play- er,” said Murdy. “He’s trying to shift a lit- de bit to scrum half and be’ 's going to Bet his opportunity this year.” Inglis will have’ to. watch _ his back, though — Jeff Chalmers and Stu Wrght, who are also gunning for the position, will - be bearing down on him at every turn. “There's three very good scrum ba at the club and they’re just going te fav batde it out for the position.” a The first ganie will see Capilano duke it’ out with their Vancouver rivals Meraioma,*. which finished the season with a better slot than Capilano last year. but. fell to the North Shore side the year before i in the « City finals, - - See Caps following page os Greco-Roman takes us back - to the origins of the _ Olympics, where garlic undoubtedly was part of the Games and where bacon and eggs had yet to make an appearance. How does the following Olympic diet appeal to you — a little goat meat, a handful of figs, honey cakes and a flagon of wine. Victuals like these fuelled the super-athletes of ancient Greece, those muscu- lar thoroughbreds of track, field, ring and chariot. Their successive victories in multiple events sometimes formed 30-year Olympic careers, Had Carl Lewis lived back then he’d still be competing. And in the Olympic dining hal! he’d proba- bly be wolting down Zeusburgers (ground black lamb topped with diced acorns), Athenian tizzes (cheese and onion grated into raw red wine) and other strange but original | foods and drinks of the gods and Greek jocks. There is no evidence that cherries and bar- ley cakes, the documented breakfasts of ancient champions, were a performance factor. But there were many rumours about funny spectator mushrooms. The classical diet also used 72 different cakes and breads. Milk, oil or honey was added to the dough. Salt was important, but there was a total ban on beans because, in bulk, they * were believed to cause nervousness. Bread, olives and feta cheese made up the staple diet. The fast mixture wouldn’t look cut ur Sydney, where the daily selects Son will be 179 different dishes.- In the earliest days of che ancient Olympics,- training methods were 24 rigorous as dicts. According to a volume on gymnastics, athletes pulled loads while yoked alongside oxen, chased hares, bent iron bars and wrestled lions. — And everyone slept on bare earth or oxhide groundsheets. But somewhere around the filth century B.C., gluttony became the order of the day. It was a time of all-meat diets, daily gorging and performance loss until, claimed an ancient sportswriter, Olympians became “slaves of their jaws and victims of their bellies.” According to ancient writings, Milo of Croton was the all-time food inhaler. He would carry a four-year-old bull around the stadium and then eat it in the same day. Fle also would ear 20 pounds of wheat in the form out of the Summer Games of a broth, By pourids of bread and wash i it all down with 18 pints of wine..." The final phase; from the third century B.C. to the Roman closure of the Games in 394 A.D., featured another big change. Sports.” ” medics made their appearance and began con- trolling diets and dainty living. They. turned : athletes into epicureans. They decreed no talking at meals because. that caused headaches. Bread came sprinkled ° with poppy seeds. One athlete had a thing for. . bread dough mixed with incense and nished with herbs and spices. Another dabbled with an all-fig dier. © Then there was a vegetarian from Sicily’ who managed to follow his beliefs while satis- fying his meat-eating supporter and sponsoss.” After his Olympic victory he built a huge oxen of dough, garnished it with herbs and fed that: to his supporters. Oh, yes, one more dietary i item from that era. Pork could be eaten, but not from pigs that had munched garlic, Garlic? Isn’t thar . where we came in? It is, indeed: Have yourself a ball watching the TV coverage from Sydney. :; And how do all you couch potatoes think Milo of Croton could have handled 20 pounds of ° junk food and a dozen pints of Molsons?