14 - Wednesday, July 29, 1992 - North Shore News

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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

JODY BELL makes a tip during the first annual Team Skyline
volleyball tournament held during the weekend at Kitmer
Park in North Vancouver. The tournament was a fundraiser

for the B.C. Special Olympics.

Hockey pair
off to US.
on college
scholarships

TWO FORMER graduates
of Sutherland Secondary
school in North Vancouver
have accepted hockey
scholarships for the fall
season.

Jeff Herman, B.C. Junior
Hockey League (BCJHL) Rookie
of the Year, will attend Bowling
Green State University in Ohio
while Bob Bell will go to Pro-
vidence College in Rhode Island,
New York.

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NV’s Sydor finishes |
12th im road race

A NORTH Vancouver
Olympic cyclist who placed
12th in the women’s 81-
kilometre individual road
race during the first day of
the Summer Olympics in
Barcelona, Spain, on Sun-
day said she felt her per-
formance has let people
down.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Alison Sydor, 26, competed
against Kathryn Watt of
Australia, who won the cycling
race,

Sydor’s mother Maureen wat-
ched her daughter race on televi-
sion Sunday and talked to Alison
on the telephone after the race.
She said Alison was very disap-
pointed in her showing.

“Her biggest disappointment
was that she feit she fet people
down. She said the 5 p.m. start
didn’t help, because they are used
to starting early in the morning so
the nerves really built up,’’ said
Sydor.

“There was also the heat fac-
tor. She said it was quite a totally,
totally different race."

Maureen Sydor said that she
felt the race was ‘very dull’ and
also criticized the coverage of the
race by the CTV network. -

“The CTV announcer’s facts
were all wrong, and he was not
very well informed about the
sport. It made a very dull race
even worse,

“| was so surprised that all the
riders spent all the time watching
each other. Most of those girls
have beaten Alison before so they
were not even watching her,’’ said
Sydor.

_Sydor’s manager Brent Mudry
said he spoke with Canadian
women’s Olympic cycling coach
Karen Strong before the race and
that Strong said the Sunday race

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would be a bit of a gamble for all
racers.

‘*Alison can win.anything she
wants to this year, but the Olym-
pic road race is always a bit of a
lottery,’’ said Strong.

Mudry said Sydof will remain in
Barcelona and will compete
against Watt in the Tour Feminin
to be held in France from Aug. 13
to 23. Mudry said Sydor told him
that ‘‘it will be exciting to race
against Kathy. We get along well.’

Sydor was picked by Sports Il-
lustrated in its July 22 edition to
win the bronze medal in Sunday’s
race.

Sydor was Canada’s only pre-
qualifier for the Olympic cycling
team and represented one of
Canada’s best chances for a
medal.

Last year she won the bronze at
the world road championships in
Germany, which was Canada’s
best performance at that event. In
1991 Sydor won gold medals at
the Mountain Bike World Cup in
Switzerland and the national
championships in Quebec.

In other Olympic news, West
Vancouver's Paige Gordon, 19,
placed 16th in Sunday’s
preliminaries in the women’s div-
ing platform and has been elimi-
nated from further competition.

She missed making the 10-metre
tower finals on her last of six
dives.

“I was really confident going |

into the last dive. I knew 1 was in
12th position, Anything can go
wrong on a back 3% twister off a
10-metre,’’ Gordon said Sunday.
“It didn’t feel as bad as it was
marked. Maybe I did some things
in the air that the judges just
didn’t fike....°°

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Both Herman and Bell were
selected to the 1991-92 BCJHL
First All-Star team, Bell for the
second straight year.

Besides graduating from
Sutherland, the pair also played
their midget hockey at the North
Shore Winter Club.

Herman has played the last
season with the Bellingham Ice
Hawks while Bell played with the
Penticton Panthers and Surrey
Eagles.

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