Word: montreal
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...Maurice "Rocket" Richard, former Montreal Canadian hockey great...
Desaulniers' contest, like his other collegiate confrontations, should grant the Crimson a sure win. But the senior from Montreal will not rest content unless Princeton falls. "In 14 of the 16 years before I came here, the team won the championship. But since I got here, we've lost three straight," he says...
...squash at 12, learning the basics from his father, a prominent squash figure in his own right. He travelled up and down the West coast from his Vancouver home, skipping among the squash hotbeds of Seattle, Portland and Victoria to compete on the junior circuit. His family settled in Montreal when Desaulniers was 16 and remains there...
Dugal and Bertrand plan to analyze the urine of 175 athletes every day. And lest any think that they are home free after a clean test, there is the cautionary tale of the East bloc Weight Lifter Valentin Christov. After an early test at the Montreal Games showed that he was clean, he apparently began stoking steroids. A gold medalist, he was automatically selected for a second test. This time the drugs were detected in his urine and he lost his medal and went home in disgrace...
Dugal and Bertrand expect such incidents to be the exception, however, even though they will be using vastly more sensitive equipment than in Montreal. During the 1976 Games, 2,049 tests produced only eleven positives, eight of which were for anabolic steroids. A similarly small tally at Lake Placid would please Dugal. Says he: "We're not there so much to catch people using drugs as to discourage them from doing so. I'd be happy if we didn't get a single positive reading...