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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2001. PAGE 9.
Blyth Tykes beat Seaforth
By Hugh Nichol
To date, it's sim-
ply been used as
back page filler,
buried deep
beneath the depic-
tions regarding the
Leaf's recent on-
ice woes, base-
ball's impending financial collapse
and of course the upcoming Super
Bowl. In time however it will
become front page news and indi-
rectly affect all Ontarians. The City
of Toronto wants the 2008 Olympic
Summer Games and is literally will-
ing to beg, borrow or steal for the
opportunity.
The reasons are simple. The games
provide an unprecedented boost in
economic activity for everyone asso-
ciated including the city itself, which
already has plans for a complete
overhaul of their waterfront. It
would give Toronto the opportunity
to show everyone they are simply
not a city of trees and churches but a
world-class cosmopolitan centre.
And finally a successful bid would,
for the time, overshadow the city's
existing problems such as. the 11-
week York University labour stop-
page, an impending five per cent
property tax hike, a $100 million cut
in city services and the never-ending
garbage debate.
While the chances of a successful
bid are improbable it is not an
impossibility. The province is solidly
on board, an essential acquisition
considering they will provide the
majority of financial guarantee.
Also Toronto is a multi-cultural soci-
ety. But perhaps most importantly
the Toronto time zone would allow
NBC to provide live prime time cov-
erage to the United States, their
biggest source of sponsorship dol-
lars.
Of the five cities bidding, Beijing
is seen as the heavy emotional
favourite backed by tremendous
political clout; reality is the games
are theirs to lose. Toronto and Paris
are both seen as safe second choices
while Osaka and Istanbul are regard-
ed as Cities on the rise but not yet
ready to compete.
How does the process work? On
Jan. 17 Toronto's official bid book, a
document containing 300 pages, of
maps, photos, and charts delivered to
IOC headquarters. One of the key
highlights is a plan to hold 25 of the
28 sports events within six kms. of
the Athletes village resulting in min-
imal travel for the participants. On-
site evaluations begin Feb. 20 with
the commission scheduled for a fi ve-
day visit to Toronto in early March.
In mid-May the IOC releases its
findings of the evaluation tour and
on July 13 a simple majority rules
balloting begins.
While the IOC is comprised of a
diverse menagerie of voting mem-
bers they can basically be divided
into two groups, the geopolitical
types who believe the event should
be rotated from continent to Conti,
nent in the spirit of the Olympic
games symbol, and the sports tech-
nocrats who will base their decision
solely on the state of the facilities.
Is there a downside beside the
obvious feeling of rejection if the bid.
is unsuccessful? We Canadians are
of an insecure nature and many
believe we suffer from an xenopho-
bia regarding international sporting
events. Canada is -the only nation
that while hosting the Olympic
Games has failed to win a gold
medal and in our case it has hap-
pened twice.
Whereas Australia spent a reported
$280 million to improve their ath-
lete's perform-ances for the home-
town audience, Canadian sports
administration has never been
known to pour the resource monies
into our system. However, in an
attempt to lessen our fears of failure
the Canadian Olympic Association
has set the goal of finishing fourth
overall in the medal standings in
2008 regardless of the game's loca-
tion.
This being the case,. the biggest
challenge facing the Toronto Bid
Members Organizing Committee
will be to convince the Ontario tax-
payers this opportunity is not a sec-
ond coming of the 1976 Montreal
fiasco, and that the Olympic
Games are truly an athletic festival
designed to promote international
goodwill.
The Blyth Purple Tyke team head-
ed to Seaforth for a Friday night
game this weekend.
Mathew Popp started the scoring
early in the game and less than 30
seconds later Tyler Stevenson
knocked in a second goal. Trevor
Raynard and Collin Whitfield assist-
ed on the goals. Whitfield popped in
two quick sinkers to strengthen
Blyth's lead.
Action flew back and forth as
The Wingham Juveniles were
eliminated from the playoffs this
past Sunday night by losing their
best of three series with Wiarton two
games to one.
On Saturday night the team trav-
elled to Wiarton and came out on the
wrong end of a 7-5 score.
Scoring for Wingham were Greg
Machan, Zack O'Krafka, Steve
Carter, Wayne Fenton and Brian
Sinclair. Assists went to Kevin
Hopf, Scott Chambers (two), and
The Brussels Novices were unable
to stop the speedy Hensall squad
when they met Jan. 20.
Ryan Smith was sharp in net early
in the game, falling on the puck in
the crease then deflecting a hard
shot from in close. Taylor Prior
Blyth goalie Grant Sparling spurned
Seaforth advances to his net aided by
great defensive play from Aaron
Popp, Jeff Plaetzer and John
LeComte.
Adam Cronin, assisted by line-
mates Kirby Cook and Tyler Black,
fired the fifth goal past the Seaforth
netminder.
Seaforth answered with a couple
of quick goals. The home team con-
tinued to threaten until Matt
O'Krafka.
On Sunday the two teams played a
real nailbiter. Wingham got the lead
mid-way through the first as
Chambers scored. Scott Inwood
picked up the assist.
Wiarton tied it early in the second
and took the lead midway through
the third. Chambers tied it with 6:33
remaining in the period.
With the game seeming ready to
go into overtime, Wiarton scored the
winning goal with 1:57 remaining in
showed his defensive ability when
he helped defend during a power
play. However, the defence fell apart
late in the first, allowing five goals in
just over five minutes.
The team seemed to come alive in
the second frame, working hard to
Chalmers made a rush from deep in
the Blyth zone to score an unassisted
goal.
Seaforth scored twice within 25
seconds to narrow the gap. Blyth
shut down further chances and post-
ed a 6-4 win.
The Tykes' coaches, Todd, Steve
and Pat invite fans to come out and
watch their Bulldogs playing against
Brussels on Saturday Jan. 27 at 11
a.m. here in Blyth.
regulation.
This ends the playoffs for the
Juveniles.
The Juveniles participate in the
International Silver Stick next week-
end being held in Mooretown. The
team's first game is at 9 a.m. on
Friday morning against Mildmay.
Game two goes at 11 p.m. against
Tees water and their third round
robin game is set to begin at
2:30 p.m. on Saturday against
Shelburne.
keep Hensall at bay as well as get-
ting on the scoreboard themselves.
Hensall had pushed the lead to 7-0
before Cody Subject broke the
shutout with just 34 second left in
the period.
The final was 11-2.
From the sidelines
Willing to beg
borrow or steal
Juvies eliminated by Wiarton
Novices suffer big loss
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