38 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday June 23, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Swimming authorities struggling with how to enforce coaching ban By Randy Starkman SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER SPACE AGE SHELVING The Storage Specialists In Home Consultation Apa me s Ap rtments par men Hom Offi es Home O fice ome fi Pant y Pa try at Garag Garage ra Laundry La nd y a C set Clos ts & Mirror Doors t Mr Mi ror 3350 Fairview Street between Walkers & Guelph Line 905-333-1322 2555 Erin Centre Mississauga 905-542-0353 www.spaceageshelvingburlington.com www.spaceageshelving.ca ing ourselves was, `Let's say the "In education, if a teacher is found Dolphins Swim Club has five lanes and guilty of misconduct and removed from he rents lane No. 6, is it a breach?'" said teaching and loses their licence to There appears to be only one way Swimming Canada boss Pierre teach, parents don't usually turn Cecil Russell's lifetime ban from swim- Lafontaine. "These are the little games around and seek those people as private tutors," said Melia. "I guess this coach's ming can truly be enforced -- parents that can be played." Hilary Findlay, a lawyer and director record in producing champions blinds must stop letting him coach their kids. of the Centre for Sport and them to other things or creates more Swim Ontario and Law, believes the group that latitude in what they will tolerate." Swimming Canada officials holds the ultimate hammer in Swim Ontario executive director held a conference call with the Russell affair needs to step John Vadeika said they are investigating legal counsel Thursday to plot up and be counted. allegations Russell is continuing to their next move in trying to "I'm not sure you can say coach and will try to ensure the enforce Russell's lifetime susthe responsibility lies 100 per Dolphins Swim Club is abiding by the pension. cent with sports officials and terms of Russell's suspension. The lifetime ban was lifted rules," said Findlay, an associ"You have to know what's being said, in 2005, after he served eight ate professor at Brock what's being done and under what conyears of it following a steroidCecil Russell University. "I think at some ditions, because again Mr. Russell is related conviction. But the point parents have to take some respon- allowed to carry on as Mr. Russell, ban was reinstated two weeks ago when Canadian citizen," said an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled sibility here as well in "It just blows me terms of their values." Vadeika. "He is not the 54-year-old purposely deceived an Indeed, the one big away. I can't fathom allowed to be a swim arbitrator when he claimed he was fully question that seems to how these parents coach under the goverexonerated in an ecstasy trafficking hangs over the Russell have their children nance of Swimming ring. case for a lot of people is: Canada, Swim Ontario Russell twice was convicted for his in this (Dolphins) What are the parents and its affiliate prorole in lucrative drug rings and testified program." thinking? grams." to helping burn a murder victim's body "He has a strange Bruce Kidd, dean of in a silo beside his home. power over a lot of peo- Pickering Swim Club phys ed at the U of T, Despite the ban, Russell has been declined to renew the seen on the pool deck coaching swim- ple," said Olympic swim coach Anne Ottenbrite champion Anne Dolphins Swim Club's mers from his Dolphins Swim Club, Ottenbrite, a coach at the Pickering contract to use the pool after The based primarily out of Oakville. His lawyer says he's doing it in his capacity Swim Club. "It just blows me away. I Toronto Star published a front-page as a personal trainer. The Dolphins sent can't fathom how these parents have article detailing Russell's past. They explored the issue of banning him a letter to Swim Ontario saying Russell their children in that program." Paul Melia, CEO of the Canadian entirely from the pool deck for any is now a volunteer coach. Swim officials seem to be treading Centre for Ethics in Sport, which went meet there, but got legal advice against to court to have Russell's reinstatement it. water in dealing with the issue. -- Torstar News Service "Some of the questions we were ask- revoked, is equally mystified. largest canadian golf liquidator T O R O N T O · O T T A W A · K I N G S T O N · M O N T R E A L· H A L I F A X · P E I VANCOUVER·C ALG AR Y·EDMONTON·W INNIPEG·LOND ON Labour Day half marathon Oakville will be home to a new annual half marathon and 10-kilometre race later this summer. The Oakville Half Marathon, organized by Landmark Sport Group which also runs the four-year-old Mississauga Marathon, will take place on Labour Day. Both races will begin and finish in Coronation Park, providing participants an opportunity to jump into the fall marathon season. Pledges raised from the event will support the Colorectal Cancer Innovation. Integrity. 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