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Lindane laid us low and Stockholm waited The A Free Press Wed A 13 by Denis Gibbons There are more pleasant places for E students from ever corner of the North American continent to become acquainted than in tht emergency room of a hospital in a si range city But if there was one happy result of the unhappy event our experienced on the torrid night of July how quickly Tucson Arizona for group Gibber recalls three weeks of sports study in Europe I or In a row Free Sports I Denis spent hit vacation studying sport and physical systems In I on a lour organized by ihe Institute of Comparative Physical I- dues lion at Montreal I University The roup which Included physical education teachers from all parts of and the a week at Ihe Sports College In Stockholm Sweden a second week at the the Institute of Physical I due sit ion located near Olympic Ullage In Munich West Germany and a third week the brand new us college on ihe out skirls of Copenhagen Denmark While the main topic of study course was spurts physical education In the schools or the Us ted students were permitted to make Indrpendi studies Of subject which particularly Interest them In Stockholm through Swedish hosts Denis met with KJell Inrsson assistant coach of the Swedish National Hockey Team and secretary of the Swedish Ice Hockey federation He also attended a dry land training of the Swedish Division hockey Stockholm and met goalie I elf llonken recently the outstanding Swedish athlete of juist five years who has represented his country In more than H international matches Including contests both Team and 1 will attend the training camp of the V Indianapolis llncers this fall West a small town near Munich Denis dropped In on a week long clinic for hockey coaches being held In conjunction with the annual Thurni Taxis ice hockey tournament which this year featured four I- Irst Division clubs from West Germany Polish National Team the University of Minnesota from the In one of the top club teams In Switzerland and Moscow the powerful club team of USSR National Team sum ladlmtr Shod tin and Ictor Shalimov tt hen the travelled tot for the third week of Denis made another special side trip to Tyrlngc in the south Sweden to Mt the International lee School for youngsters There he met ex coach of the Swedish National Team I untfstrom generally regarded as the god father of Swedish hockey 1 lohansson who studied hockey methods In the Soviet I as early as and later several training camps and Toronto Maple I ear winger Inge a native Swede back in his homeland to teach at the school for the summer Scheduled lo depart from Montreal Monday July the was for a day when several participants were after taking grand mal seizures These followed a meal they had eaten at the Motel I tests that cabbage used mike cole slaw part of the meal had been con laminated with an Insecticide called lindane This week Denis reports on the unhappy events or that do v and their results Tales of the tour Itself will follow In future editions became one with Brooklyn New to the Olympic now under construction and an international volleyball mate i between Czechoslovakia the the previous day had hardly Riven members of the group time to catch on to new and Ihcm with new faces Carol from Wisconsin Denis from Georgetown and Acton Ontario said lit for the first lime for example in the midst of room full of doctors and nurses at General llospitil while they were wondering what had hit them like a Ion of bricks couple of hours before And so it wis with others afflicted If San Diego California know on Mnndi or Indn had a chance to ill lo Chenango Forks New most likely did in one of hospitals thai night or next when our group leaders I Phil Stanley were lOitlng out the whole mess and assuring us that there would be brighter ahead To start it square one our deparlure by bus from Hal on the campus to i 10 flight which would take us to ind then on to Stockholm followed visit to Man and His World on a when were over the i refreshing swim in the mole pool and whit we that lime didnt realize was a disastrous pre flight lunch Turn fish sandwiches coleslaw ind soft drinks were on the menu although to experts at the Quebec of Toxofogy it was cole thai did the ob Wendy from Richmond Hill was the first to suffer J secure just is the bus to the airport was about leac Then it was Irit of Montreal waiting outside bus on the campus grass Medical personnel were called lo look after Ihe first victims although that time there were apparent reasons for the attacks The girls were taken to hospital but with flight time growing nearer bus had to move on At the airport baggage check it was Little of West Long Branch New Jersey who ill and caused more minds wonder what would happen next It was less an hour before flight lime when Anderson of Saskatchewan fell prey to the nnsty bug in Ihe departure room and when Nancy of Brook lyn New York becameillonlheaireraft decision was made have all members of our group deplane Those of us who bad so far escaped the frightening attacks were transported by von to another waiting room somewhere in the airport It was there that we went through mental anguish of realizing hat might happen us but not knowing when it was there also that I unintentionally made liar out of The last thing I remember was him coming Into the room and announcing I Just spoken with the doctors They say that if It il most likely won t The next voice I heard was that of a General Hospital nurse diking me how I fell lay on by aching back in IheumrRcncyroom Yes the lindane finally cnughl up with this scribe and like the others 1 was nut like a light happened the rest of the croup after that I don t know although I lis covered the next day that others had laken seizures and those who were laken to hospital for precautionary checks anyway My one night stay Included a hack ray my back was aching from the muscle contractions of seizure finally getting horrible victuals up off my stomach and questions from a Montreal reporter assigned to gel a story on the incident for first morning edition The story made front page in the Gazette and I told w as carried on Canadian Press that week A doclor pronounced us fn io be charged at in the morning and it was back to motel where we were told lo sack out for the day catch up on lost sleep I can honestly say that the thought of backing out of the lour crossed my mind more than once that day as 1 m sure it did many others One lesson I learned friendships we that I feel gave us the more important morale booster to board Ihe plane Ihe follow night with only one day of programming in Slockholm lost Although the first few days in Sweden were Jlrlng for many of us and the Day of my 1975 sports ex was one thnt I like to forget but never will since it wns the beginning of another great educational experience an especially fine group of people who pulled logelher make the best of a bad situation someone created with a few sprays hectic the the 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