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Wednesday, July 28, 1997 - North Shore News - 17

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Margaret Langford hitting her stroke

Paddler posts best-ever result §

By Andrew MeCredio

Associate Editor '
andrew@nsnews,com

FOR. Margaret
Langford, the word
Atlanta conjures up
“one thought: “What
could have been?”

The 27-year-old Lion’s
Bay whitewater paddler fi n-
ished eighth in fist “year’s
Summer Olympics in the
Georgian: city, Save one
‘touch during her final run,
she could have been on the
podium. Maybe even on the
‘top step.

a sometimes think how
iny life would be different -
today ‘if I wouldn’t have lost

~ that Yme,” Langford recalled
Sunday afternoon over a

. cool drink at a North
Vancouver waterfront bistro.
“Probably not-much, except
maybe some people woul

_ Fecognize me_‘on the street.”

We sat’ quietly, undis- °
turbed as tourists and locals

“alike had-no idea that last
month, the tanned, fit

ore rt ‘Langford,

a bronze medal at'a;Wo

Cup whitewater everit: .
“En feeling ‘really. strony
on the water righ 1OW, an
the experi
has {really become 2’factor,”
Langford said‘ of her success,
In addition te. the third

*velgained -.
Fc “ue me’ feel better,” she said.

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place result, which came in
Sweden, she posted a fifth-
place finish at an internation-
al event in Germany in June,
Her success in Sweden
was bittersweet, however, as
just days before the race she
earned that one of her pad-
dling mentors, Richie Weiss,
had drowned while out for a
‘recreational paddle i in
Washington State. The 33-
‘year-old Colorado native was
Langford’s inspiration, both
on and off the water, and
" she dedicated her bronze
medal result to his memory,
She met the U.S. kayaking
- legend when he was com-
pleting his geology PhD at
the University of British
Columbia.
It took her a day of travel

». to get back from Europe for
.. the funeral in Colorado, and
She says was so jet-lagged, so

i. tired, that it all seemed unre-

“at Was he really gone?

“I stood up at the cere-~
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about Richie, and that made

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time with Richie’ s wife (who.

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