PROUD MANAGER-COACH -- Ken Carr-Brainfr first Belleville manager-coach of a national sports team, holds the honor medallion presented him by the Shah of Iran during his visit to Teheran. weightlifting platforms. Thesj platforms were in constant us\ from early morning to late a! night by the various teams, am we made friends in all tib, teamsThe Russians were the favoite to win the team, title as; they had been for the past si> years. But as things turned oul they had a very rouigh time anc were beaten by a very superior team from Poland whose athletes were superbly fit and conditioned. The Russians won two of the! seven classes. The Poles two, Hungarians one, Japanese one and Great Britain one., The Polish lifters had more second and third place lifters than any other nation, so won the team title with the most points. We had thought before we left Canada that if we averaged in 10th place we would be doing very well by world standards. As it happened we did very much better. We ended uip i with one 4th place, one 6th, one 7th, two 12th and one 13th. Our physique contestant won the Mr. Universe short nian class. life wiith his young and beautiful wife and tw0 lovely children plus untold millions, I would not trade places with him. There have been many assassination attempts on his life and he has been wounde* often. Ju$t as we arrived there one of the palace guards had tried to shoot him and had failed. It must be a terrible feeling t0 fear for your life, every day of your life. The weather was perfect every day we were there with an averag of 70, very pleasant indeed. I think the people who deserve a tremendous amount of credit were the Iranian Federation- They .had an enormous amount of work to do, when you have teams from thirty seven cuntries arriving by air, and they met each team, arranged for their hotels etc., plus the guides and interpreters and the hundred and one jobs associated with an event of this magnitude. About 70% of the people < On November 3rd after the last competition a farewell ceremony was held at 8 o'clock in the evening, in a building called the officers' club. It turned out to be a palace with giant chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. These chandeliers were about sixteen feet long and at least eight feet in diameter at the base, very impressiveIt was not announced that the Shah would be there but he was, and personally presented the managers of all the teaims with an exceptionally nice commemoration medal, a photograph album with photo, graphs of all the highlights of ( the games, and a lovely copper ! tray with tiny figurines hami me red out on it. Then he left and the Federation officials finished the presentations td all the lifters. Although the Shah appears to have a very nke and happy ! |>: