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by Andy Fraser

Red menace returns

Those dirty Commies are back again. Complete with all those brainwashed young men who are hockey and who go immediately to

Siberia if they lose. Complete with their plots, counterplots, and subterfuge, they have come to destroy our way of life. Orso those clowns of the

media would have us-beheve-——— -—---

Every time a team from | the Soviet Union comes to play. the media and organizers go into paroxysms of red baiting and flag waving somewhat akin to the

shown by our leaders against the Japanese Canadians at the outbreak of the war against Japan. And with the same

amount of rational thought.

NOT THE OLYMPICS, BUT. .

Win your own

‘The Winter Olympics may not be coming to Canada unti] 1988. but thousands of competitors will be vying for gold, silver an bronze medals

this season in Molson’s Molstar races. At over 50. ski areas

throughout Western Canada, recreational skiers will be challenging their toughest adversaries: themselves. The object of the race is not to beat the local pro, but to judge your own ability and improvement through obtaining a handicap. Each handicap compares to an area par time. pre-

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The Club wall be attending meets on Vancouver Island and in Washimgten Stete om Sprnag and Summer ‘83, as well as parocipating in over

a dozen fixtures) on the Lower Maninland. For the first (ime in) many years,

Norwésters are hosting a Conference Meet in North Vancouver These BC [rack and Field Association News) Conferences provide valuable curly season competion expenence for athletes training for large scale Outdoor events hike the

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determined by handicap.

This year's annual Molson’s Pacesetter Event was held in April; the results influencing the handicaps of all future Molstar_ par- ticipants. By assessing the times against the regional winner's handicap of zero, all the pacesetters are qualified to set and rate the Molstar courses in their area. .

Handicaps are calculated separately for males and females in four age categories: 18 and under, 19 to 29, 30 to 45, and 46 and over. Relative to the area's

the area's

Only a narrow

North Shore Schools Track Meet and the BC Jumor Development Cham pronships later in the s¢ason

Development of Track and Fietd Athletics on the North Shore is hampered by the primitive state of the available facilities. There 15 only one all-weather track on the North Shore, a six- lane surfaced oval at Handsworth Secondary. The narrow track ts suitable only for smaller scale events, eliminations for School Champtonships, Conference

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People who enjoy the way the game of hockey 1s played at the highest level (i.e. - the Soviets) despair to hear the hyperbole of how they are always trying to cheat, and how they eiways use unfair

The truth of the matter is

+that the Sovrets-are the best

hockey nation in the world at the present: time. They have beaten us at the inter- national game, and they have beaten us at the N.H_L.

olestar medal

par time, the participants’ handicaps can qualify them to receive a gold, silver or bronze medal for their ef- forts.

Skiers can enter the Molstar races by registering at any participating — ski school. All proceeds from the $3.00 entry fee go back into the school to fund new programs and improve the services offered to the skiing public. *

In addition to this, ‘Molson’s Western Breweries Limited donates money annually to the Canadian National Ski Team and the Canadian Professional Ski

Shore Schools track meets book facilites like Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, which has an ecight-lane track and covered seating

The Club remains hopetul that the increasing populanty of = recreanonal and competitive running and the return of the BC Track and Field Association fix- tures to the North Shore wi lead to an improvement in facihties.

For information on Cross Country and Track and Field awclwwites on the North Shere, phone Norwesters Head Coach at 9N0- 7498

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on the smaller ice surfaces with the different rules, and generally speaking they win. They played the Canada Cup according to the NHL rules and thrashed us.

Almost as bad as our cry baby, red menace approach to the Soviets, is the way some of these ‘expert’ commentators are con- tinually criticizing the way they play, the way they shoot, their lack of ability in this, or that.

My lord, if they're that incompetent, then where does that leave us?

Soviet hockey teams, and

~- tn fat, all their sport teams,

continually show the utmost in sportsmanship and clean

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who tum the event into a poliucal spectacle. We are

the ones who attempt to turn an exciling sporting event into a hate communist campaign. We, not they, are the ones who demean ourselves by our total un- willingness to allow the game to be played for the sake of Sport.

Good

grief, we even complain over the fact that the Soviet Ice Hockey

Federation is being paid to bring their team over here. Ah, come on guys. When you look at the salaries of

the NHL. players. the rip off

prices being demanded for

— play. They are a credit to

sport. which, sadly, is far more than can be said of many of the overpaid brats playing against them.

We, not they, aré the ones

Schools Association (West) based on the number of

Molstar participants. Approximately 35,000 skiers in Western Canada

alone challenged themselves in Molstar races last season and it is anticipated that even more people will participate this year.

Even though the Winter Olympics are beyond the realm of the average skier, Molstar offers. everyone the opportunity to feel the thrill of winning the coveted gold, silver and bronze medals.

trouble accepting excellence in someone else? Is our feeling of self esteem so low that we have to pull down the other guy to bring him to our level?

Why can't we go the other way? Why can't we accept that the Soviets are the best, for now, and determine to improve our own lot by learning, by advancing, by achieving?

When you come right down to it, the best way of showing you are the best, whether it be politically, in sport, or whatever, is) by doing better than-the: other guy.

tickets to regular season games, many of which are __ Talk is -cheap.-Show us— totally abyssmal, how can don't tellus.

anyone complain about the Soviets being paid to come over here and remind us of how good the game can be? Why do we have such

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