£>escu By Brian O'Meara < The Intelligencer JLes Decsi has an.eye for gold and the medals to prove it! The 56-yearr61d Tweed resicient, who lostMs left leg in 1972, came hom<e from the European anol WorldL OpenAmputee Masters Shooting Championships in Brugge, Belgium l^st "Week with a collection of three gold meclals and one silver. Detfsi's sharp eye brought him many honors in the past two decades and par- ticxtlarly since he took up dis- abled scooting in/1980/eara/ ing a silver iji a competition in Hplland thaf yearj. / I The I Brugge efent was "ihe biggest evei|,H saijd Detsi. A! to- t^l of \ 19 countries &eni J155 slkootets anid Deesi is iprouft of his accomplishments - he fired 504 to: win air pistol, 545 to win staftdarci pistol and 520 to capture \ the . free pist6| title while shooting 552 for a silver in sports pistol; Bkt inore impprtantly, Decsi PLOW gets the opp6rtunity to rept^seni Canada at tlie Pai^alympic in Barcelona, Spain next Aiagust, inimediately after ther regular, if ^hat is\the word, 1992 Olympics. "There rdally is ^omething to it to hear O Canada played when you're^standing on that podium. It was 1Q days of shootihg and pretty serious competition." Decsi hopes to bring home Paralympic gold next summer^ The 23-year-veteran teacher at Centre Hast- ings Secondary School in Madoc says "Fve been all over^the world tbrough stiooting." He was a member of the Veg^ular' Canadian national shooting team from 1976 to 1988 de- spite his amputed status but is concentrating on the Paralympics and tne Amputee World CKampionships now. "The Paralympics are probably the most prestigious," he says ^hen ^tskedXabout all the ^omP6tition^ he has been to over the years. To date 32 courltries and about 14Q contpetitprs have confirmed entry to the Para- lympics. "By n0xt year ^e should \ have over 200 con- fiitned It should bip the biggest ever." 1 ivfOTES:...all thie physically disabled disciplines, cierebral pajsy, taipuiee, land iwhe^l- chkirs /are jiiow /grouped to- gether in the international Paralympic Con^nitt^e...D0csi competed at the Canadian Na- tional (aVled bodied) shooting championships in Grtoby, 0ue. in July/finishing third in centre fire ariol in the top eight in rapid fire...two years ago at the World Amputee Championships, Decsi eiarned two golds and two silvers..,fotoier Tweed ressident ALEC DE- NYS, now with the MNRjfi Saujt Ste. Marie, has -also qualified for the Paralymics in archery. Denys, a former mernber of the Belleville Ar- chery Club, won a gold m^dal at the Stoke- Mandeville Games in England in July. (