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GAMES COUNTDOWN

THE LEGACY;

Facilities for a city of people on the move~«

By DEANNA BINDER
Commonwealth Games Society
ictoria is a city of
participants.
Thousands turn
out annually for the
Terry Fox Run. Six hundred
and forty six runners com-
pete in the Royal Victoria
Marathon and another
2,000 show up to walk 8 km.
The annual Bed Race draws

more than 30 teams.

The cycling community. hosts
more than 60 cycling events
each year. An estimated 1,000
participants currently take part
in organized swimming
programs. Many more could be
involved if there were pool space
and time. Triathletes, who take
advantage of Victoria’s ideal
climate for training and who
currently number more than

500, compete with swimmers,
cyclists and track and field clubs
for facilities. Fight lawn bowling

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clubs on South Vancouver Is-
land involve more than 1,250
members.

All these participants, and
many more in organized and un-

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organized activities, look for-
ward to the facilities of the Vic-
toria 994 Commonwealth
Games.

Jim Carter, Commonwealth
Games sport chairman, con-
firms the “emerging facilities’

plans will leave a legacy for ath-
letes for generations to come.”

The lawn bowlers wall be able
to attract national and interna-
tional championships with their
new four-green complex.

There are already plans to host
the 1993 Pacific Bowls Cham-
pionships in Victoria. Leona
Peterson, lawn bowls chairman

explains, “We wouldn’tbeableto |
use the existing two green sites _

for major championships. The
use of separate sites would
double the administrative load
to conduct our events. We also
prefer to bring the participants
of our sport together in one site.
Certainly this is an objective of
our ‘friendly Games’ in 1994,”
she said.

Peter Vizsolyi, chairman of
swimming, enthusiastically
promotes the series of com-
promises that led to the
proposed design of the new
aquatics complex.

“In our bid presentation we
said that we were going to build

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two 50-metre pools, but we had
to be realistic in terms of the
money available,” he says.
According to Vizsolyi, to host
even a national swim competi-
tion an aquatic facility must
have a 50-metre pool and a

warm-up pool. Commonwealth #

Games competition also re-
quires a deep-water diving tank.
The creative solution proposed
by the aquatic community is to
build the required 50-metre
pool, and add a shallow-water
extension to the diving tank to
create a warm-up pool. The ex-
isting McKinnon pool, which
cannot be used for the competi-
tion and which would have to be
staffed separately after the
Games, will be converted to pro-
vide change rooms, locker
facilities and administrative of
fices connected to the new pool
complex.

“With this compromise pool we
stay within the $15 - $16 million
budget,” maintains Vizslyi, “and

Victoria gets a pool complex that @&

water enthusiasts of allages and
stages can enjoy.”

Jim Reed, the Commonwealth
Games’ vice president in
charge of facilities, emphasizes
that while the Commonwealth
Games Society’s first commit-
ment is to “guarantee that all
facilities and venues for the
Games will meet the standards
of the International Sport
Federations,” they must also be
a lasting legacy for the com-
munity, and serve the needs ofa
variety of organized competitive
and recreational programs.

with respect to facilities unles:
there is a guarantee of broad
access at affordable rates,” he
said.

The new velodrome, with an
infield of artificial turf, will chal-
lenge not only cyclists, but also
soccer, lacrosse and field hockey
players. The new aquatic centre
will welcome organized instruc-
tion for school students.
Upgraded gymnasium and
stadium facilities will provide
competition venues for gymnas-
tics, wrestling, boxing,

weightlifting, badminton and;

track and field during the
Games, and training sites for
years after.

“We will not sign an agreement _

a