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Wili Hugh Campbell, right let Archie McDonald, right, on Canuck jet lag problem. E3 Oakland's LaRussa A.L manager of the year. E3 Lions off hook on deal? Sugar Ray's sparring session officially halted. E2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988 SECTION I HAT is the moral of this Morals don't seem to count any longer i Johnson wins the footrace in the bigges ieeest historv of the Olympics. Does it in competed in the Olympics.

gression overshadows Steen's triumph. The fable's second chapter will offer him hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so. Failing that, he -can sell his car and his home, take his sponsorship money and money in the bank, and live a very comfortable life somewhere. Moralists will say he will live the rest of his life with the burden of his shame: skeptics will say there is nothing like a million bucks to ease a burden. Dave Steen? With luck, he will find work.

It will be honest work. He and his wife ill scrimp to go on vacation. Twenty years from now, the only people who will remember his name will be his family. His name will be: recalled in public only at future Olympics, as a footnote to the Games at which Ben Johnson got caught. What is the moral of this story? Sometimes it pays not to have ing Johnson $1.6 million for his name, besmirched or otherwise, announces it will continue to do so even after Johnson's cheating has been exposed.

Dave Steen is seen in a Toronto school gymnasium, receiving the applause of the students of the John Fisher public school. In a case of role reversal, they had "adopted" Steen before the Olympics and raised $1,000 in nickels and dimes so Steen could afford to compete. The living allowance he receives from the federal government amounts to $550 a month, or about one-third the amount of what he needs to live on. If it hadn't been for private sponsors, and school children opening their piggy banks, Steen would not have surrounding Johnson's cheating. He is suspended with pay, and will be paid $43,000 per annum while he awaits the findings.

The Canadian Track and Field Association bans Johnson from competing for two years. They also levy the hollow gesture of withdrawing his federal funding for life hollow because Johnson spends more on gas for his Testarossa. So in two years, Ben Johnson may compete again. He can come out of his exile, announce he has gone straight, attract the curiosity of millions by offering the novelty of running clean and go head to head with Carl Lewis. Somewhere, a promoter Meanwhile, Steen has to worry about getting on with his life.

For most of his youth, he has done nothing but train without the aid of drugs. The climb to the top has been all that more slow. His wife has had to postpone her schooling to subsidize his athletic career. For too long, they have struggled to get by. Both now wish to lead normal lives.

The job market, however, has no great need for decathletes. There is nothing for him to do in Burnaby, the place of his birth, so Steen will return to Toronto. Meanwhile, Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis is suspended pending a review of the circumstances front of the biggest audience in the history of Olympic footrace audiences. Gets caught cheating. Goes home to Canada in disgrace.

Dave Steen comes in third in the toughest event in the Olympics. Does it at 9 p.m. to an empty stadium. Exactly three Canadian reporters are there to witness his triumph. A Canadian has never done so well in the decathlon.

Sleen's ethics are as clean as the stuff that runs in his veins. His per-formance stands. He returns home quietly, without any fanfare. The nation is engrossed in the other character in this story, whose trans- resumes after a month's hiatus. Ben Johnson is seen driving a Ferrari Tes-tarossa worth $250,000, while allegedly making menacing gestures with a starter's pistol.

Work on the $750,000 house he is building for his family PETE McMARTIN and himself resumes. The Italian sporting goods company that is pay- Coursed CaiuiM cuinrse coetiimes Issajenko won't talk to CTFA Canadian Press TORONTO Angella Issajenko says she won't co-operate with the Canadian Track and Field Association's investigation into illegal drug use among Canadian athletes because it suspended her coach Charlie Francis. The CTFA announced Monday that it would investigate statements made by Issajenko and other athletes, concerning Ben Johnson who tested positive for anabolic steroids following his 100-metre win at the Seoul Olympics. "No, I don't want to talk to them," said Issajenko, who has said that she and Johnson knowingly took steroids. "I don't have to talk to the CTFA." Issajenko said the association was wrong for suspending Francis indefinitely with pay.

Johnson was suspended for two years. "What did Charlie do to be suspended? That's the question," she said. "Did he hold Ben down and give him drugs?" CTFA chairman Jean-Guy Ouellette said Tuesday from his Sherbrooke, home that Francis was suspended "to get him out of the centre of the controversy. "We're not saying he's guilty of anything." Issajenko also said she will not take part in the investigation of Johnson's personal physician, Dr. Mario (Jamie) Astaphan, by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons even though she has said that Astaphan supplied the steroids that she and Johnson took.

However, Issajenko said she will tell all to the federal inquiry, headed by Mr. Justice Charles Dubin. "At the inquiry I'll be under oath, so I'll have to tell the truth," she said. "(But) I'm not looking forward to it." v- a -aJ! Washington streak goes By MIKE BEAMISH Now that they've exorcized the demon that had pursued them for three seasons, the Vancouver Canucks can start working on the hex of the Washington Capitals. Twice in the span of 1 1 days this month the Canucks whipped their old nemesis from Edmonton, a team the Canucks had not defeated in 27 straight games.

But with thoughts of 'reaching the holy grail of .500 hockey in the win-loss column, who should appear at their doorstep Tuesday night but the cursed Capitals. Try as they might, the Canucks were doomed. With Harold Snepsts sitting out a questionable crosschecking penalty, Mike Ridley scored at 2:55 of overtime on an improbable shot from an improbable pass by Kelly Miller to give the Caps a 4-3 win. The Canucks, 3-5-2, now are win-less in 13 games against Washington (0-12-1) dating back to February 28, 1984 and they have not won a home game against the Capitals since Nov. 21, 1982, going 0-8-1 over that span.

There were suggestions that Mike Gartner, who took the cross check from Snepsts, made like Greg Lou-ganis to embellish the penalty call. And maybe the Caps should have been whistled down for having an extra player on the ice for a brief time. But few in the Canuck camp were cursing the fates because the home team had plenty of chances to win the game earlier and didn't. "The disappointing part was that we lost the game in the first period," said Canuck coach Bob McCammon of the team's fifth one-goal loss in 10 games, two of the decisions coming in overtime. "They were all over us like a blanket.

"I can't blarrte (Steve) Weeks and 1 can't blame (Kirk) McLean. We just couldn't put the puck in the net when it was 3-3." "I hope it's a real boost for the hockey club, a real confidence booster," said relieved Washington coach Bryan Murray. "I think it will be. "The Canucks are a fine club and for us to beat them in their building STEVE BOSCH Washington. Goal, however, was disallowed because of a penalty.

Capitals won 4-3 on Mike Ridley's overtime goal. PREMATURE CELEBRATION: Canucks raise sticks after Petri Skriko (far left) scores in second period against other goal on a first-period power play. But the Canucks sputtered again in the third period, especially in the closing five minutes as Weeks made some brilliant close-in stops to force the game into overtime. "If you're going to do anything at home, you've got to be a third-period team," said McCammon. "And in the third period we collapsed and that bothered me." Ridley's winning goal stopped Weeks' goalless streak at 86 minutes, nine seconds, going back to his last appearance, Oct.

16 against the New York Rangers. Ridley took a pass from Miller, who was behind the Vancouver net and covered by two Canucks. With the puck at his skates, Ridley roofed a shot over Weeks from an acute angle. "It's a big win for us," said Ridley, who also had an assist. "Everybody knows we didn't start off as well as we could have and should have." ucks play Washington.

BLUE LINES Canucks had killed off 12 straight opposition power plays covering four games before Ridley's winner. Doug Lid-ster, Jim Sandlak, Ken Berry, Todd Hawkins and Ronnie Stern were the Canucks' scratches. Garth Butcher picked up a minor in the second period to become the fourth Canuck to reach 1,000 penalty minutes in his career. One of the four, Stan Smyl, picked up his first penalty of the season in the third period. on this occasion the way we had been going is pretty rewarding." After Dale Hunter, Kent Carlson and Dave Christian jumped on a jittery McLean to give the Caps a 3-1 lead at the end of the first period, McCammon put Weeks in goal to start the second.

McLean, who despite an impressive goals against average has an alarming habit of giving up bad goals, kicked the first goal into his own net as he sprawled and tried to cover up a rebound with his pad. Hunter got the credit. "Kirk didn't have a great start," McCammon said. "I put Weeks in there because I thought it might lift the team." Tony Tanti, who went eight games before scoring his first goal, scored his third and fourth goals in three games to tie it in the second period. Brian Bradley had Vancouver's Weeks almost became the goat when he skated to the Canucks' bench with about 30 seconds left in the third "It was my fault," said a disconso- period, believing that the Capitals late Rich Sutter about Ridley's goal.

IF (DIB IT (8 (B 0DE) had been called for a penalty. "I went in too deep to help our "Somebody raised an arm and I defence (cover Miller). Ninety nine thought it was the referee," said times out of a 100 when you make a Weeks, sheepishly. "It was the lines- play like that you don't get man. It was the longest skate (back burned." to the Canuck goal) I can remem- But history dictates that bad ber." things happen whenever the Can- fti ha n7rpfTLi MM Canada rebounds in Seoul Paralympics and almost 5,000 athletes), it's kind of over whelming.

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The Ben Johnson steroids scandal. A generally dismal performance at the Summer Olympic Games. And the national soccer team's failure to advance to the final round of World Cup qualifying. But take heart, patriots: The Paralympic Games in Seoul were a smashing success for those wearing the maple leaf. Canada finished a highly respectable fourth at the Games for the physically disabled, garnering 54 gold, 42 silver and 57 bronze medals.

Only the United States, West Germany and Great Britain A boom for disabled athletes. E2. had a greater medal haul during the Oct. 16-24 Games. The most successful Canadian athlete, swimmer Mike Edgson of Nanaimo, arrived at Vancouver International Airport Tuesday afternoon.

Edgson brought with him a total of nine gold medals. His outstanding performances in the swimming pools of Seoul included four individual world records for his disability class in the 100 metres butterfly, 100 backstroke and 200 and 400 individual medley. The 100 'fly and backstroke records were accomplished on the same day. Additionally, Edgson was part of Canada's world record-setting 4x100 metres medley relay team and 4x100 freestyle relay squad. "I went to Seoul hoping to win maybe two medals," the 19-year-old Edgson said.

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"But I swim against able-bodied athletes all year round, and that helped me immeasurably in Seoul. The competition is the best I've ever seen at a disabled Games." Edgson earned the nickname 'The Canadian Riptide' from his younger days with the Nanaimo Riptide Swim Club. He now swims with the University of Victoria varsity team. Another prominent Canadian swimmer at Seoul was North Vancouver's Lee Grenon, who harvested four gold medals and one bronze. Also visually impaired, the 24-year-old Grenon won the 100-metre butterfly, 400-metre freestyle, and, with Edgson, swam on Canada's record-setting relay teams.

Grenon's bronze came in the 400-metre individual medley. "The calibre of competition in Seoul was greater than it's ever been," said Grenon, a veteran of international competition who earned three gold and three silver medals in the pool at the 1984 International Games for the Disabled in New York. 1967 East "Hastings Richmond 273-9664 Vancouver 251-5935 13683-104th Avenue, Surrey 588-3074 1875 Kingsway, Vancouver 876-2177 130 East Columbia St, 2524 King George 2065 Lougheed Coq.Pt. Cog. 941-6631 NeWestminster526-9701 Surrey 536-1353 774 S.W.

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