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"vas privilege last week 10 spend a couple ‘of days atthe Panorama
“pate nt man who never Con Springs with a doctor friend of mine. He’s a

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easy and hard pitches.
eer eter io a with a doctor ‘There's a certain sense of security in
“knowing that splints, gauze and heavy duty pain killers are only a
scream away. It doesn’ thelp me to ski faster or better. Just happier. -
Dr. Ken is one of z e few Canadian does who devotes a week or

world in search of fast times and fleeting glory. - .
2 watched more than 100 ofthese young people compete in both the
Downhill | and Canadian National’

Achealy. Tdidn't sex much of any of the races. There’s no place

_. along downhill courses where you can stand and see a whole race. You
can just glimpse litle bits of it,

Bent over bodies ¢ dressed Vin aaa

that No way, J "jose."

have on two legs.

Swooooosh .... and into the air, turning at the same time so that when .

they eturn to earth the downhill ski slices the ice-hard sr
of a second is saved on the 2,730-metre course. :

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t having to wait long minutes.

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- mei wnhill racing teams. Sometimes this takes him to |
the Alps and neat places like that to minister to our youths who tour the

~My own downhill plunges were rife with.

spectator not a sleek race m
Alpine

Don't know how they do it, Wouldn't catch me doing

. 4 not ot be much difference between me and Mike Camey. | 1 laid down « on ——————————
The athletes have legs | of i iron. I have more fat on wo toes than they

1€ y teen activity. group holds
i open house at: 2304 #

St. Andrew's Anglican Church, 7

You have to believe you're immortal to go 120 km/h with only a

ayer of thin underwear to cushion a fal

Just kids most of them. Twenty-five is retirement age; 30 is old age;
illion years away and something that only parents and grand-

| world remembering the tum at Gate 16 when a |
: split second, and therefore the race, was lost. I saw one competitor —
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would have been only about a metre behind at the finish line if they had —
~ been racing head to head. But in this sport of split seconds it was the

weep because she finished less than a second behind the wi

difference between first and sixth place. ;

1is week Canada’s top racers are | ipping down the sie of Mt, Alla 1
in Kananaskis Country west of Igary

gold, praying for any color medal, “OD

for a decent showing and not

DNFs (did not finish) are ‘usual
tumbles often terminating

padded

in vicious plunges into plastic fences and

the human projectiles. As it tumed out, although there were a few
crashes, none of the competitors was seriously injured. °

destructibility.

One d day at Panorama, on my Jast run of the day, I made it all the way

without falling or flailing my arms. too wildly. W
de I shouldered my skies and strode to my room. I
just won the Big One.

ear and struck a pose or two before the mirtor.

the floor and was well into a second situp when Dr. Ken walked i in. =
He, a polite soul, suppressed a snigger

for the rest of the day. We hoisted a couple of cold ones in h honor of the :

ed their bodies for Canada - and themsclyes, .
"Here's to them again. = a

ly the result of spectacular, spinning |
spectators. At Panorama I positioned myself well away from -
s but 1am a padded

machine. 1 envy their physiques, their i |
- determination to be the best: and their belief in their own in- |

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