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hes } 9¢ rrmabisipireiacontidh s Aicrcemovnin. J in / & , ~I99 99 | ® \ a9 } N 40[58 ." 544/3 f IES â€" .99 6.99) en en 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come out to this week‘s Car Wash _ to support the Soccer Team. e3 m 22, 1992 at Labatt Park "The world record for the 100â€"m free is 1:06.69. My time was 1:17, which met the requirement of 85 per cent of the world record, but the OASA didn‘t select He met the requirements to particiâ€" pate in the Paraâ€"Olympics in Barcelona, Spain â€" Sept. 2 to 14 â€" but found himself overlooked by Canadian team officials. Today, Clements is one of the top amputee swimmers in the country comâ€" peting in five events including the 50 and 100â€"metre freestyle; 50 and 100â€" metre breaststroke and the 100â€"metre butterfly. At the recent Canadian Amâ€" putee Sports Association â€" National Championships in Maple Ridge B.C., he collected gold in the 50 and 100â€"metre freestyle and the 50â€"metre breaststroke. As a pool manager in Cambridge, swimming has always been a part of his life, not so much in the competition level of the sport, but mostly for training purposes. It was when his wife told him about the Ontario Amputee Sports Assoâ€" ciation, his life took on new meaning. He doesn‘t talk much about the acciâ€" dent, just that it happened and there‘s nothing that can be done to bring his arm back. Instead, with years of rehabilâ€" tation and therapy at Hamilton‘s Cheâ€" doke McMaster Hospital, Clements and his wife, Diana, got their lives back in order and mapped their future. â€" Great Strides Clements is probably a moreâ€"abled bodied person than most in this world, despite not having his right arm. Life goes on for the 28â€"yearâ€"old University of Waterloo Enviromental and Resourse Studies graduate who lost his limb after a motorcycle accident seven years ago. Amputee swimmer excels in and out of the pool lair Clements, a oneâ€"arm B swimmer, doesn‘t consider himself â€" handicapped. Only those who don‘t know him think that way. . db INSIDE SPORTS RACECAR FANS WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 Car will be on ., August 29th, 1992 display at Labatt Park. Miith .. == A dedicated athlete, he can be found Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornâ€" ings working out at the University of Waterloo pool pushing himself to the limit while training with abledâ€"bodied swimmers. Pacing himself with ableâ€" bodied swimmers enables him to imâ€" prove his turns and time. 15 Centennial Drive, Kiichener. Ontaric 578â€"2052 "In the breaststroke I count on the power in my legs. You‘d think that with one arm it would make me offâ€"balanced. but I‘m not. Maybe I just kick harder with one leg. I really don‘t know how I do it, but I swim in a straight line with all of my strokes." However, as one discovers, Clements doesn‘t require both arms when it comes to swimming. But when asked, how does he swim in a straight line using only one arm, Clements hasn‘t really thought too much of the problem. Prior to taking the Enviromental and Resourse Studies course, Clements was registered in the bioâ€"chemistry program, but felt he needed both arms to successâ€" fully be a biochemist _These guys, even though they still refuse to allow the doctors to remove the limb, are not visibly disabled. But they have to get them â€" limbs â€" removed and get on with their lives." "I talk to these guys in Hamilton who are walking around with these useless limbs hanging off their bodies 1 ask them ‘what are you doing, waiting for them to get better? They won‘t‘ His former doctors, knowing how he got his life back in order, have approach ed him to talk to other people who are facing what he went through several years ago. Despite the setback, Clements refuses to grieve over the situation. He had his grieving period in life, and life, as he knows it, is very precious. One of the reasons he wasn‘t selected was because of his lack of competition last year, something the OASA required of him. Instead, Blair and Diana spent the better part of last year at Polar Bear Park near Hudson Bay as volunteer gardeners. any S8 amputees â€"loss of arm above the elbow â€" for the team," a disappointed Clements said. Sale Price eC ..umm FINE AUTOMOBILE BODY AND PAINT . >â€" Sweatshirts .Price ©29.99 Price ©4.99 (Continued on page 34) 1992 â€" PAGE 31