Word: canadianism
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...Many Canadian athletes say they're thrilled just to go to the Olympics and will happily settle for a "personal best." Brunet doesn't toe that party line. "The Canadian way is to think, 'O.K., go out, do your best and have fun,'" she says. "For me it's not enough to go to the Olympics to participate. I'm never satisfied...
...concluded that doing things the Canadian way was just not good enough. She revamped her training program, settled in Denmark and hired former world canoe champion Christian Frederiksen as her coach. (He also was for a time her lover.) Brunet captured silver at Atlanta in 1996, losing by 0.2 sec. She thought silver was O.K. until the replay showed how close she was to gold. "That made it worse," she says, "Even now it bothers...
...cheating if everybody else is doing it." So declared Canadian track coach Charlie Francis in 1988 when his sprinter Ben Johnson became the Olympics' highest-profile disqualification ever by testing positive for steroids. But of 8,465 competitors at Seoul, only Johnson and nine others were booted for drugs. What's this about "everybody...
...hemorrhagic shock. Hemopure, the brand name of one substitute, contains no red cells but consists of ultrapurified, modified bovine hemoglobin suspended in a salt solution. Now in clinical trials in the U.S. it was fast-tracked for approval in South Africa and found its way to the black market. Canadian track coach Dan Pfaff recently told the Toronto Sun that he believes many athletes formerly on EPO have switched to undetectable Hemopure...
...plot told telegraphically, chiefly through a series of newspaper clippings. A 1945 story reports on the death of Laura Chase, 25, who somehow drove a car off a Toronto bridge. An item two years later reveals the discovery of the body of Richard E. Griffen, 47, a prominent Canadian industrialist found dead of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage in the cabin of his sailboat. Then comes a fast-forward to 1975 and a note on the death of Aimee Griffen, 38, of a broken neck after a suspected fall. At this point, Atwood's novel is barely 20 pages...