28 ~ North Shore News ~ Wednesday, January 26, 2000

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Amateur boxing returns to the North Shore next month for not one, but two nights of fights. The Champlain Heights Boxing Club is presenting the 8.C. Emerald Gloves Boxing Tournament Feb. 4 and 5. Bouts get underway at 7:30 p.m. both nights in ine square circle at the Fraternal Order of Eagles’ Hall, 170 West 3rd in North

Vancouver. Tickets are $10 at the door.

“the rec -eentres

I have seen and heard the human aging process described i in many ways. | ;

Ic varies from the posi- tive “Age is nor all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling

of fresh life within, that | -- withers and bursts ‘the husks”. (George : . Macdonald), to to the negative ‘Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a time you haven’t committed” (Anthony Powell). I’ve also read some :humorous descriptions like the Groucho Marx state- ‘ment:'A man is only as old .,as the women he feels. : “The: fact is that older dividuals in our socie perceived i ina a myriad oO!

old farts; pensioners, golden S

agers or even old codgers, - bile the politically appro- priate may. term then: as ‘chronologically challenged. : They are of course par-.

nts, grandparents, brothers, ; :

sisters and lovers as well as many: cases being the -

Bob Mackin

Sports Reparter bmackin@nsnews.com

TEAM 8.C. rookie Michael Janyk won gold twice in the Nabob Coffee Cup slalom at Grouse Mountain.

Janyk’s’ Saturday runs down Grouse’s Centennial course gave him a combined tirne of one minute, 37.78 seconds.

He narrowly defeated Swiss skier Claudio Calonder. Aibertan Richard

"MacLean was third.

Janyk was ticd for third on his first run, but made up the time on his second.

On Sunday he went nine seconds faster for a 1:28.49 time, beating jeff Lines of Whistler and Calonder for his second gold of the week- end.

Janyk won the slalom twice at Panorama in

December.

Trevor Bruce, the only member of the’ Grouse

’ ‘Mountain Tyce. Ski Club on ‘the - provincial team, was

ith. The ~ North Yancouverite’s first run was at 45.11, but went 47.6 in bis second, - He fared better in Friday’s giant slalom, finish-

” ing 10th wich a two-run dime of 2:06.55.

‘Fellow Whistler skiers Paul sposkovich, Jeff Lines an organ Maguire were fifth, sixth and seventh.

Danielle. Bird Mount Washington Ski Club

KARATE KICKS

The Karate B.C.-sancitioned Sato Cup karate champiosship is Moving to bigger venue. it Jebuted last year at Rockridge middle school in West Vancouver. This year it’s at the Capilano College SportsPlex Feb. 5. Competitors fram the Pacific Northwest and Alberta have been invited. Organizers are awaiting confirmation from European, South American

and Asian entries.

CANADA’S Nicholas Martens raced down Grouse Mountain’s Centennial run during. fast. weekend’ Nabo> Coffee Cup ski races. It waa the first Federation international « de Ski-sanctioned event on Grou:

in five years. -

was third in the women’s by Morgan Hincks _ of

of the:

stalom on Saturday. Her two-run time of 1:38.25 was 1.03 seconds behind Celine Dole of France, the race win- ner. Invermere’s Christina Lustenberger was second. The Sunday run was won

Alberta.

The Nabob Coffee Cup

races were the first Federation International de Ski-sanctioned meet at Grouse Mountain in five years,

@ The Little Iceman Winter, Triathion cometh.. The newest . : sporting event on the North Shore debuts Saturday at Grouse Mountain. The:

. triathlon includes snewshoe

short-distance ‘tation and information,

> o8s- -country skiing a alpine: or. telemark: skin: snowboarding...

The course takes. an esti: mated, 90. minutes to

Call 980-9311 for -Tegis

emographic group | that |. akes up the wiser segment Of or population. What they aren’t howev- is “over the hill,” “past and ‘definitely not, dy for the’ scrap heap.”

Then why is it that when

“comes to exercise in gen-. -

and weight training

specifically, many athfetic © facilities. (some rec centres in particular) treat mature people as if they are as frag-

le as skeletons on a diet and

“ will snap in two if we chal-

lenge them up to their real physical capabilities? -

By 2930, persons 85 years and older will repre- sent the fastest growing sceg- ment of our population and

“we still don’t seem to have

grasped the idea that for

., normally healthy mature

* people, high intensity resis- Jance training continues to

Lyons began figure skating as an eight-year-old, following” in the footsteps of his older sis- ter Kristin. He took up” the sport to improve ‘his skating . skills. Bauer said he’s recover-: ing from a stress fracturé-in his. right foot suffered last summer but is confident he can finish in the top half.

Lyons is a rare two- sport’ competitive .skater who «may: have to make a difficult choice in the’ coming years, said his father Rod Lyons. ;

“He’s been doing both at a. reasonably high level, but I think in the next year he’s going to have to decide what he’s going to do. Ar this stage,

| NV figure skater at junior nationals

Bob Mackin News Reporter

ERIC Lyons was only three when both © Olympic hockey and fig- ure skating was contest- ed at the Saddledome in. Calgary in 1988.

The North Vancouverite may have to wait a few years to play hockey there, but he is at

the. home of the Calgary Flames to compete in the national figure skating champi- onships this week.

‘Lyons, 15, trains daily at the North Shore Winter Club with figure skating coack Lorna

out for the B.C Olympics Volleyb: ; Club on. ‘the nex

Two-hour tryout session for three age groups-are:sct : for . the ‘ “Capilano College SportsPlex Jan: 30°and Feb 6, Grades 7/8 are .at"10 am., 9/10 and 11/12 a

_offer the same benefits ix “does to younger people, as _- well as recreational and "competitive athletes.

Bauer when he’s not practising -- . or playing defence with the NSWC’s bantatn A hockey

team.

when yeu "re doing triple jumps

and you're in A level hitting.

hockey, you’ve got to make a decision what lane you're going

The B.C: Olympics. club and Cap College’s depare- ment | of. .athtetics -

- “teamed to give high- “schoo -age boys an opportunity. to

Lyons won the B.C. novice crewn last year and was fifth at his first nationals. He will com- pete in the junior men’s divi- sion . Thursday and Saturday.

-- “Qn the occasions that I ") go into a fitness centre, I teo often sec older men-and _

"tO go to.”

CTV Sports and CTV SportsNet will be covering the event nightly during prime

time.

play competitive ‘volleybal for a non-school, club:

- For. information," 983-7533.

NEWS photo tufie werson NORTH Shore Winter Club’s Eric Lyons is at the national figure skating championships.

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