Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local Winnipeg fruit 2000 Creed continued Frond Page a1 its just about reorganizing the system so that the Money can be bet Ter put to i really believe i dont underestimate the prob he 1 think there is an inefficiency in the with the same amount of Money we we should be Able to do but at the same when you look at the amount of Money some of these nations Are directing toward their Amateur athletes and their coaches and compare it to what were i think we have to ask ourselves the question in Canada As to whether we have the priority i Amateur and if we dont have the priority for Amateur then we have to be con tent with the sort of results that Are somewhat disappointing to Warren is speaking five Days into the games of the xxvi where canadians have reached the medal podium just twice a Surpris ing Gold won by 25yearold triathlete Simon Whitfield and a Bronze for swimmer Curtis Myden in the 400 metre individual much could change Over the next 10 but theres a growing sense in based Ort times and performances already that the Canadian olympic team May not come close to Matching the 22 medals earned in Atlanta just four years if that the then whats the problem Why Are we falling Short by just of a second in some cases when a nation such As aus comparable in size and wealth to has already hauled in 22 lets begin with the Colour from 1989 to the Coa distributed million per year directly to National sports from the olympic governing body upped the doling out million to sports another million to National sports Cen tres including million in funding for athletes Grants and million to add it and that represents a significant increase from million to but looks can be deceit the Warren is that As we the Coa put More the government puts less in and if you take the sum of the it would pretty much be the australians spend four dollars on their olympic program for every Dollar spent on Canadian Amateur which Warren called a significant Warren that Canada could get a better return on invest ment by simply identifying its most productive sports federations in terms of medals and results and following their blueprints for another answer May be to inject not Only More but new blood and ideas into a Canadian olympic program that even Warren admits recycles administrators from sport to its almost like nil he in baffled by that i think theres Young people out there with fresh who is in his used himself As an example of How administrators May be too out of touch with today people my age or people close to my age Are making decisions for ath letes that May not necessarily be the Best decisions As far As the athletes Are he i think theres a lesson to be Learned for Warren looked at the team Canada clothing package designed for these games and his first thought theres nothing that would fit my but who cares the athletes like it and that the important the Coa is currently studying Australia Amateur sports which operates at arms length from government and the National olympic it May have its Warren in not suggesting by any Means that its a perfect sys but it seems to be producing better results than were that often the Bot Tom line in olympic sport the path to the medal podium is paved by funding you want state theart training you want to recruit top International coaches pay you want to keep struggling ath letes in your program so they can eventually parlay their gained inter National experiences into medals get out your Cheque that if Canadian athletes stumble in Warren Hopes the results will trigger a National debate among canadians about their olympic Are they satisfied with 10 medals or would they be willing to agree an additional in government funds for the if at what expense to social or health programs asked if there May be grassroots grumbling if the Canadas medal count is significantly less in Sydney than the 22 medals garnered in Warren replied i would certainly Hope i would encourage every Canadian who was disappointed in the results in the medal stand Ings to Start grumbling at the grassroots its begun to but it takes he if you put a Dol Lar in today and youre looking for a return on your investment from that dont be looking for six for Federal olympic funding increased dramatically prior to the Calgary Winter olympics in where the Home nation earned four in the Canadian Winter olympics medal total Rose to seven in then jumped to 13 medals in two years that was 10 years after the government commitment to put More Money into Warren so dont be too impatient in terms of it May take 10 years to see the Benefit of of the olympic funding landscape in Canada could change dramatically if Toronto lands the 2008 summer Warren Ive been told by Ioc members that the High Point of any olympic games in any country is the Pride of the Host country in greeting its Gold medallists and playing its National As you we hosted the games in 76 in Montreal and we didst hear our National and we hosted the games in 88 and we didst hear our National and if those members for whom that important continue to focus on that then we better Tell them that the Canadian National Anthem is going to be played in Toronto in its a Lovely 0 it if you want to hear it played on the olympic then first you must pay the ethics continued from Page a1 nobody Here in Sydney is going to Point a Finger at a particular athlete and suggest they use High or some other exotic but everyone everyone they All so and so possibly have grown that that fast without it just Doest happen with meat and i do i and i do anything to Hurt my Dubnikoff other people make other i cant do anything about when you see a woman in her 20s with a Large forehead and acne on her Back and a Gruff you know something int at the Dune Gray velodrome Here in you saw and listened to every but you simply dont see it with Canadian in Ever since the Ben Johnson scandal of we have done everything we can to take the High we test our athletes on a out of Competition basis on an almost nonstop if you Are getting an kind of Public funding in order to compete internationally or you Are declared a member of a National you will be when Brick finally tested positive for the steroid a Androlones a steroid that is produced endogenously by humans she had been tested 78 the Canadian Centre for ethics in sport caught her when her a Androlones level had metabolized by a food supplement she was and the cues did not hesitate to have her thrown out of that what we do in we have drug police and we do our very Betto catch our own children cheating and then we kick them in other its done in Roma chinese Taipei and according to the usos former drug Czar even the United drug use is Moni doctors watch the prescriptions they give determine the Best times to use them and make sure the athletes Are clean when competitions Roll sometimes they miscalculate and athletes Are As weve seen with some weightlifters and track athletes Here in but for the most drug use is so closely monitored in some countries that its almost a science unto that not How we do it in Canada and because we try to take the High the chances our athletes have of challenging the Best in the world Are mini just because other systems Are the Way they Are Doest mean we have to do things that said cues director Andrew we believe in we believe in the Good of the athlete and an athletes its Central to our we will not As Best we ath letes making conscious decisions to its the right thing to but its also contrary to the winning of olympic we do or do not do two things in Canada which Hurt our athletes chances of reaching the medal we test and dismiss athletes for drug use instead of encouraging and monitoring the use of performance enhancing and we refuse to fund our athletes at a level equal to or even approaching nations in the rest of the despite what sport minister Denis Coderre wants to sport is really not part of our Cul Ture and As Canadian it appears we really dont want to spend the Money necessary to make Canada a world sports As Australia has a invest ment in sport will go a Long Way toward accomplishing goals in a drug free in we discourage drug use and yet refuse to spend More than million a at least we do one thing As you continue to watch the olympic games on dont be alarmed if Canada fails to win More than five or six medals in we knew something like this would happen and we knew now that there Are drugs like High and epo readily available around the world drugs that cant be detected by Standard dope testing those nations that encourage drug use will make sure their athletes have a full in where were trying to be ethical and frugal at the same that Means medals will be few and far Tanya at the age of looked old and slow Here in one can Only wonder How she would have performed with a Little then Shes struggled to make financial ends meet All her competitive Why should it have been any different this 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him up with duct defence lawyer Darren Sawchuk had urged jurors to disregard the mens claiming they were following yesterdays Sawchuk said he was disappointed they didst heed his obviously they believed part of what they said and didst discount some of the lies they he Sawchuk said they May consider an i Man facing charges a Portage la Prairie Man is facing charges of unlawful confinement after two customs officers were allegedly held at gunpoint for an Portage ramp said on monday two employees from Canada customs and Revenue Agency went to a Home 15 pm Southwest of the no one was so they drove into a lot next to the their vehicle was blocked by another a Man got out and pointed a Rifle at police police said he held them at gunpoint for an hour before they were released ramp were notified tues Day and made an arrest David Michael has been charged with unlawful confinement while using a two counts of pointing a careless storage of a firearm and resisting Money approved for slide toboggans should be whipping Back and Forth across the red River by the time festival do Voyageur starts in february after City Council approved an extra yesterday to the twin the Whittier Park Toboggan the Timber Structure with a 12 i metre drop is designed to showcase the fun Side of Winnipeg harsh Winters and provide free entertainment for intercity kids near the proposed waterfront it will be built South of the scottish Monument at Alexander across from the existing Toboggan slide at Whittier users will be Able to slide out onto the River from one then return at High Speed from the other saving themselves a cold walk Back across the wide the Money approved yesterday comes from a Trust fund set up after Winnipeg hosted an International Ter cities conference in an additional had already been allocated to the project through the cites Riverbank management com staff a arthritis Over 100 but no known cure for 9424892 Camii Ulitin for your Zellers flyer in the free press ;