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"Price. Morris as Price- JL l 1 ra 1 C rr <1 -i *-% UCtld Lid.!!! - ^ I After the Olympics, Morris his head. "To me, that was a retired with more than his highlight of my lifting career,11 share of laurels. Prior to the he says, proudly. "I was really , , Olympic games, he won the flying high that night " machine gun was a deterrent. Canadian Heavyweight Cham- The man holding the German police but a few varns awav - , In And ' ^oid?• *uuib Morris's accomplish- resident Price Morris was rep- resenting Canada in the It was a \ ij- ° * later, at fore the terrorists struck and was on his way to breakfast when the machine gun toting| policeman stopped him. As During an interview at his '™j*\ events unfolded, Morris Frankford residence, Morris erful le|s games held in Co- ., South America, a year and Morris took home he Belleville an^ you have a champion lifter. Surprisingly, Morris is not a big man by to- day's standards. He is stocky, pow- his learned of the tragic death of said his interest in weightlift- an Israeli weightlifter he had ing started early, trained with prior to the com- petitions. The athlete was cut in half by a hail of machine fire as he valiantly tried to "I was born and raised with group. But he does not have the overall girth one would ex- pect of a heavyweight lifter. Although he was injected! two big, strong men," he says with cortisone, which is now| in reference to neighbors who known to be a steroid, it was istop the murderers from enter- lived down the road from him. not considered one at the time. |ing the room. His first exposure to lifting"! never knowingly took ste- Back in Canada, Morris's'came during high school.Toids," Morris says emphatical- ife heard the news of a Morning exams meant the af-lly. Instead he stresses nutri- eavyweight powerlifter being illed by terrorists at the lympic games and feared the orst. Neither his name nor .ationality were immediately .vailable. Morris returned ome early to escape the de- pressing scene unfolding before him that ended with the cold blooded slaughter of the Israeli athletes. And while his performance at the games was not as good as he had hoped (22nd out of 26), his performance in the Olympic trials was astonish- ing. Morris set Canadian records ternoon off and on one of these tion and hard work, usually relaxed afternoons he At 49, Morris has begun accepted an invitation to pump training again. The myth that iron with a friend. Morris athletes are finished at 40 is pressed 150 Ibs. and clean andinonsense, he says. Giving his jerked 175 Ibs. Lifting near personal view of the subject, he your own weight overhead is says, "Strength is like a B.A. considered a milestone in degree. Once you've got it, it weightlifting. Morris, in his don't take nothing to carry it first try, had hoisted 175 Ibs. around." He weighed 180 Ibs. Asked whether there is money in the sport, he repies With all these accolades, one in the negative. "We were ama- of Morris's biggest rushes cameteurs and the word amateur is from lifting before he broke Latin for love of it,'" explains Doug Hepburn's record. It hap- pened in Toronto on Sept. 17, Morris. Preparations for a new job 1967 at the Central Young with the Ministry of Correc- in powerlifting for all three Men's Christian Association, tions Services is currently cut- styles of lifts. The three catego-^he .event wfs an sterna-ting into training time but he ries are the bench press, the *lonal competition between hopes to compete m the On- snatch (in which the athlete France> Britain and Canad^tario Masters tournament in | heaves the weights over his involving three top lifters from! February, 1992. | head in one motion), and the each country. Until this point, clean and jerk (in which the nobody in Canada had ever 1 barbell is raised to the top of successfully done a 400-lbs. lithe chest in one motion and clean and jerk. Morris held the ; , . then thrust above the headCanadian record at 396 Ibs.^J' UK, UP, and UP -- Price with a second motion). Morris but was determined to break ns at the 1972 Olympic snatched 308 pounds, clean that symbolic barrier. Only trials in Newfoundland. and jerked 413 pounds andfour pounds stood between \ou no go there," the man pressed 375 pounds. DougMorris anc} bis goal. When the ?^r A T m broken EngKsh. Hepburn had held the Cana-nigbt ended Morris had set a Vice Morris could have liter-dian record for the press for 16 new personal and Canadian uly picked him up and thrown years before Morris shatteredrecord by hoisting 406 Ibs. over the man out of his way, but the that record. Sunday, October 13,1991