10 Terrace Review + Wednesday, November 30, 19 | ‘Sports editorial _ Weightlifting: i ~ under a cloud? It’s a sport that takes only sec- onds from start to finish, but it’s also a sport that probably breaks more records in a year than most other athletic events in the world, And now it seems to bea sport on the edge of oblivion — or is it? . — While the B.C. Weightlifting Association seeks fresh blood in a current recruiting effort, Canada’s International Olympic Committee. vice-president Dick Pound is petitioning to have it dropped from the Olympic agen- da. Pound, a former Olympic Coming events in - Sports The Kitsumkalum Ski Club’s anual. ski swap is on this Satur- day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 4717 Lakelse Ave. beside the liq- uor store, Those with equipment to swap, and this includes ice skates, should bring their item to the store Friday night between 7 and 9. . _ Terrace Minor Hockey wants to start a juvenile team of players up to 19 years old. Plans call for them to play house league against the midgets. If in- _ terested, phone Sandy Marshall at 635-7623. The Kitimat Legion Bombers midget hockey team is now tak- ing orders for firewood. Orders will be taken at Schooley Sports, or from Kayo evenings at 632-5489. , The Totem Saddle Club has a general meeting Wednesday night at 8 o’clock in the Terrace library basement. The Terrace Commercial Hockey League is in need of a sponsor for one of its three teams. Anyone interested should phone Benita Chapdelaine at 635-3930. Skeena 6th Another team from. the Northwest zone is enjoying pre- season ranking among the best 10 in B.C, It’s the junior boys’ basketball ratings, and ‘ they show Terrace Skeena Tsimp- seans rated sixth best overall. Tsimpseans are the only team ranked from this zone. Al- though not-yet into their regular schedule,, they did play exhibi- tion games recently at Prince ‘Rupert where they won two and lost one. Car bashing ‘Terrace RCMP arrested two -;ouths Nov. 18 as the result of a ccar-bashing spree that caused “damage estimated at nearly -'£50,000. : The suspects are young of- “fenders.and their names cannot “be released. — . The damage was concentrated ‘on’ vehicles’ parked on the Jim ‘McEwan GM_ dealership -lot, ‘with 49 Vehicles ‘vandalized. swimmer, says the move follows a recent rash of positive drug tests at the Summer Games in Seoul. However, Philippe Saint Cyr of the International Weight- lifting Federation is confident the I.0.C, will not abandon the sport, which has taken measures to try and eliminate drug use among its athletes. The federation recently adop- ted a non-notice anti-doping rule that severely penalizes countries and athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs. The B.C.W.A., meanwhile, seeks potential lifters to train for the future. Here’s a press release concerning their situation. The B.C. Weightlifting Asso- ciation is currently recruiting potential athletes, We are _especially interested in athletes for the B.C. Winter Games (open to all ages) and the Canada Winter Games in February, 1991 (open to athletes born in 1971 or later). We are not limiting this offer to those people who already have some experience with weightlifting. What we need are people who have. determination to learn the disciplines of weightlifting and will give the sport their best effort. We also hope more women will become involved because -the upcoming Canada Winter Games will have women com- - peting for the first time! We em- phasize that you should not worry if you have not lifted weights before, because you will receive the necessary training. We are sure that all our par- ticipants will benefit from this experience, Our team members will have access to extensive training camps, special competi- tions (mostly outside B.C.), and best of all you may have the op- portunity to enter the B.C. Winter Games of the Canada Winter Games which will be an experience you will never forget, Yours sincerely, _. Steve Janies, Technical Director. It appears Canada is wearing two faces for this sport. Na- tionally, it’s a downer. B.C., however, is making a supreme effort with a saving face for the future. | If we read between the lines of the B.C.W.A. press release, they see the writing on the wall and are eager to go to extremes to see their sport thrive. | It’s doubtful if Pound’s push for removal gets real support. The most likely move would be suspension for one Olympic games, which would more or less allow weightlifting to clean up its act and get out of the ‘steroid-use’ era. ‘More-active’ role in com!:at- ing drug-use in organize: sports has beer ratified for the Olym- pic Chartes by spars wiinisicrs of the world. In our opinion, weight tilting is an honorable and long-time sport that’s taken a pic-in-the- face for a few bad apples in the barrel. Penalize the culprits, not all the players. . Using Terrace Dollars really paid off for local resident Elizabeth Mair (second from left), who won return tickets for two to Van- couver in the Chamber of Commerce ‘“Com- pare Us — Terrace’’ promotion. The tickets were handed over recently in the Chamber of Commerce visitor Infocentre by AirBC rep- resentative Jeri-Lynn Chanpoux, with aaNet ) 17771 alah eal 2 Sorel aco ee rere aoe, ‘ TE BU RL eT TTD a . Wayne Jones and Paul Williams represent- ing the Chamber. Jones said that during the promotion, 26 local merchants accepted Terrace Dollars and a total of 185,000 were spent. Mair’s winnitig dollar was tendered at the Cotton Company in the Skeena Mall. Contest winners The Terrace Block Parent’s poster contest winners have been announced by Karen. Focker of McDonald’s Restaurant. 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