Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 58

F2 CALGARY HERALD Nov. 8, 1983 LH STAMPS Nordic's tough new rules serve notice of war on doping Team scatters as another season ends tersen, chairman of the national ski team committee and Canada's FIS representative. "We're hoping to set an example for the rest of the world and I ft It 5 -til 4 I I 111 i si mm Receiver Jay Christensen, who was married prior to the season, has decided to stay in Calgary rather than spend the off-season refinishing furniture in Kelowna, B.C. As is usual, more than 20 players are expected to spend the offseason in Calgary. Wide receiver Larry Willis is going the other way.

He said his off-season plans weren't finalized, but he planned to go back to the States after staying here last winter. It's no secret Willis has become unhappy playing in Calgary. His receiving partner, Emanuel Tolbert, has made his offseason home in Mississauga, since his Toronto Argonauts' days, while Mitchell Price returns to Hamilton. Quarterback Erik Kramer returns to school in Atlanta next week, while defensive backs David McCrary and Chris Major will spend the winter in Georgia. Derrick Taylor was going to split the winter between North Carolina and California.

Lemont Jeffers returns to his government job in Washington, D.C., while quarterback Carl Fodor goes home to work in his father's store in Weirton, W. Va. Wide receiver Stacey Daw-sey is going back to university in Indiana in January, while another newcomer, defensive back Jeff Yausie, last worked as a waiter in Saskatoon when not attending University of Saskatchewan. Wide receiver Marc Lewis will investigate opening his own advertising firm in California in the coming months. If that doesn't work, he can go back to working as an insurance underwriter.

The 1989 season has already started in president Normie Kwong's office much to the surprise of those who predicted this season was the Stamps' Ray Smith, Calgary Herald STAMPEDERS DEPART: Eugene Belliveau (front) and Quency Williams leave McMahon Stadium on Monday. TORONTO (CP) Canadian cross-country skiers will be tested anytime, anywhere for banned drugs under the "no notice" anti-doping policy approved Sunday by their sport association. Athletes caught with banned substances in their systems will be suspended for life, Cross Country Canada head coach Marty Hall announced Monday. "If you don't want to take the test right now, you are admitting your guilt," said Hall, who stirred controversy at the Calgary Olympics by accusing some foreign athletes of blood doping. Sport Canada will pay for the random testing, he said.

"Thank you, Ben Johnson," Hall said. "He brought a lot of attention to this issue. "I feel sorry for Ben Johnson but I feel happy for sport. When the Bulgarian weightlifters were caught (at the Seoul Olympics with traces of anabolic steroids or masking agents in their blood), nobody paid attention. When Ben Johnson got caught in the premier event, the 100-metre dash, it did a lot of good." Hall also advocated random blood testing by the FIS, the international ski federation, of international athletes.

By determining blood profiles through repeated samplings, medical authorities would be better able to detect when athletes have substituted their blood prior to a major event. Blood doping is a process whereby athletes take on, through transfusions, their own or someone else's blood with a high count of white corpuscles, which absorb oxygen. A higher oxygen content in the blood increases aerobic capacity. Skiers will be tested for blood doping for the first time at the world championships in Lahti, Finland, Feb 17-26. There is a 50 per cent error rate in detecting whether an athlete's own blood has been re-introduced, Hall said, and a 100 per cent reliable method in discovering substitution of another person's blood.

In Canada, under the crosscountry team's policy, testing may be performed at national or regional championships and training camps, said Bjorger Pet- 1989 Eagle Vista 4 last. Kwong stressed the team has survived and is now look-, ing upward. "That's our biggest accomplishment this season because we started from the low season-ticket base said Kwong. "We were only able to do it by convincing some corporations to come with Kwong's upcoming agenda includes negotiating with the five free agents on the roster and putting together his presentation for the year-end review to the board of directors, Nov. 14-15.

He said the free agents Christensen, Tolbert, Jeffers, Bernie Morrison and Glenn Harper will all be offered-1989 contracts, although he wasn't convinced all five would find the club's final offer acceptable. The assistant coaches will stay here year round, provided all come away from the Kana-naskis year-end review unscathed. Defensive secondary coach Bill Bradley was confident rumors that he and two or three others had decided to quit Jiad been dispelled. "I've learned a lot about the Canadian game this year," said Bradley, a former NFL star. "I like it, I understand it better and can do a better job." ie Vis we're hoping to work with the FIS and the IOC to get rid of the problem internationally," he said.

Wayne Dustin of Sault Ste. Marie, entering his fourth year on the team, said he had no objection to the policy. Dustin said Canadian athletes stand to gain from stricter international testing and sanctions because they have not experimented with steroids or blood doping. Former World Cup Alpine skier Ken Read of Calgary, an IOC athletes' advisory council member, endorsed the policy. "I have no opposition whatsoever to, No.

1, taking the necessary steps to combat the use of drugs and doping in sport Read said. "And No. 2, to any measure which restores public confidence in amateur sport with respect to this problem." Hall said any team with a member caught with banned drugs should be banned from the next Olympics. By his reasoning, Canada would not be allowed to send its team to Barcelona for the 1992 Games because Johnson was caught in Seoul with anabolic steroids in his blood. "That's too extreme a step," Read said.

"I don't think we've even come close to putting in an international policy with teeth and that's the first line of defence (against illegal drugs). "If that fails, then you have to have some tougher sanctions. But (in Hall's proposal), other athletes are paying the price for those who choose to cheat." The Canadian Ski Jumping Association said it would follow FIS guidelines in imposing penalties on their athletes. The association would not ban an athlete for life. New coach Danilo Pudgar said steroids had not become popular on the ski jumping circuit because the sport is looking to thinner, lighter athletes.

Hall said skiers will be permitted to appeal their cases if caught with banned substances. door Chrysler Canada cm Jeep. By Murray Rauw (Herald writer) Leo Blanchard was on the Trans-Canada Highway by 'noon Monday on his way back to Victoria and a better paying job. don't make money playing football anymore; I would make more staying with my business in Victoria," the Calgary Stam-peders' offensive tackle said before hitting the road. But the Blanchard was already finding retirement won't come easy.

"This is the first time in my career I've missed the playoffs," said the 10-year veteran, who joined the Stamps on the Labor Day weekend in a trade from B.C. Lions. "I don't know if I want to quit with that memory. I mean, I've already forgotten about winning the Grey Cup last year (with Edmonton Eskimos). You always remember the last game." Blanchard and the rest of the Stampeders met one final time Monday, after closing out a disappointing Canadian Foot-hall League season with a 6-12 record.

Most will stay for tonight's year-end party at Canada Olympic Park. But the dispersal has started and the farewell handshakes made with the knowledge that not everyone will be back for training camp next spring. Calgary will gain some new year-round citizens through the football team. Linebacker Ken Ford is certain he's found a place that will make him forget Texas and has applied for landed-immigrant status. He will scout the local job market.

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