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Qrono Weekly Times/Wednesday, October 4, 2000 - 5 by Peter Jaworski This is the first time that I haven't really paid much attention to the Olympics. You see, I don't have cable in Kingston. All I get is the local television station, CKWS, which doesn't have the resources to carry the Olympics. They hardly have the resources to keep the anchor desks painted. I managed, however, to catch most of the drug-related stories. And boy, were there many of those this year. We had that equestrian fellow. fellow. He was busted with too much cocaine in his system-- apparently him . and his 'friend' got so excited about getting into the Olympics that they went on something of a bender. The bender, said our equestrian, was unintentional on his part. This buddy of his had somehow managed to get cocaine into his system without without our heroes knowledge. Oops. , So the IOC, those well- dressed fellows, decided to reinstate our champion and let him compete. There was, however, another hitch. Having been so crestfallen by his initial loss at the chance of Olympic glory, this gentleman used some cocaine to make himself feel better. So he was kicked out again. And, yes, reinstated on the grounds that were he to have been able to compete initially, he most likely would not have taken cocaine. With these 'extenuating' circumstances, the IOC gave him the A-Okay to come back. The Canadian Olympic Team, however, were ; the sole sane voice in this affair since, in the end, they were the ones who wouldn't reinstate him. Remember Silken Laumen four years ago? She took the wrong kind of cough medicine. medicine. Ross Rebagliati? He could probably have used some cough medicine to help with the sore throat that is brought on after smoking, marijuana. And Ben Johnson, the most infamous of our Canadian athletes, is probably thinking he shouldn't have drank that 'bottle of water.' The same is true all around the world. The United States is swimmingly famous for not reporting their drug busts. Their official Olympic team just keeps all of that information information under wraps for a little while hoping that their Olympians will pass the International tests finely and dandily. The Romanians are going to leave these Olympics with the rest of the world thinking about that shot putter who had about a thousand times the legal limit of steroid sitting in his system. What, then, should be done about all of this? Clearly performance performance enhancing drug use is a serious problem especially especially since a lot of kids are looking looking up to these athletes for some kind of guidance. So, as I see it, we have two clear options. The first, of course, is to just let them go nuts. Let's see what kind of athletes we could produce then, shall we? We'd have weightlifters tearing tearing concrete slabs out of the sidewalks for competition, hoisting trucks above their heads, and so on. We could double the long running dis tances and still see ridiculously ridiculously fast times. The pinnacle 100 metre event would have to be extended since 6 seconds seconds of running wouldn't make for too much entertainment entertainment (how many commercials could you squeaze into that time frame?). Or we could do the obvious obvious thing and adhere to the rules. I'm not suggesting that we introduce harsher penalties penalties or do more drug testing.. What 1 am suggesting, however, however, is that the IOC uphold, without exception, the rules that are already on the books. That message needs to be made loud and clear. Until that time, I'll continue ignoring ignoring the games. And maybe you should too. 'Hie Community With future THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON PUBLIC NOTICE RESPECTING A PORTION OF ELEPHANT HILL PARK TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of The Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington at its meeting to be held in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Administrative Centre, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, on Monday, October 16 th , 2000, at 7:00 p.m. proposes to: (a) pass a by-law to declare a portion of Elephant Hill Park, more particularly described as Part Block 93, Plan 10M-830 as shown as area A below, to be surplus property of the Municipality; and (b) pass a by-law to permit the sale and transfer this portion of Elephant Hill Park to Daniel Neale McLean in exchange for a portion of Block 17 within proposed plan of subdivision 18T-92022, as shown as area B below 1 , AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT before passing these by-laws, Council shall hear inperson or by his counsel, solicitor or agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by these By-laws or either of them or either of them and who applies to be heard. Patti L. Barrie Municipality of Clarington 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3A6 iUai kvIhitt. Tourism ami Coimiiiuiivalloi ' M (005) 623-3370 .3 ' s . yjtJm