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Bound for Thompson to report on Games By Paul Svoboda The Intelligencer Dale Thompson is going to Nor- way. But unlike the athletes who'll be travelling to Lillehammer next week to compete in the 1994 Win- ter Olympic Games, Thompson won't be lugging any skates or skis with him. Instead, Thompson's tools of the trade will be a ballpoint pen and a note pad. Thompson, 23, will be among two of the first-ever Canadian student journalists to attend a Winter Olympics in a working ca- pacity under a new program through the Canadian Olympic Association. "I was pretty much shocked," says Thompson, a Belleville na- tive and a recent graduate of the print journalism course at Loyal- ist College. "I want to experience the whole thing. Not so much the celebrities, but meeting all the people I can." After hearing about the pro- gram, Thompson applied. He sought and received sponsorship from the Canadian University Press which supplied him with a list of 60 media outlets to which he can file stories while in Nor- way. Thompson also contacted an- other 20 Canadian daily newspapers interested in paying him for stories from the Games. He'll need the money too. Things are definitely not cheap in Norway, especially in the com- mercial confines of the Olympic Olympics Intelligencer photo by Frank O'Connor Loyalist grad Dale Thompson is ready for the Lilleham- mer Olympics.