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When Walerloo's Brent McFarlane was named the heal coach of Canada's Olympic Track and Field team he never dreamed that he would have to go out of pocket to fund his ath- keg Olympic dreams But that's exactly the situation that the well-respected author and track innovator has found himself in as he looks at his budget for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The government has cut his budget to $120,000 to pay for the training and logistics of making sure that 45 athletes, 15 coaches and five support staff are in place tty maximize Canada's medal result at next By his own calculations that leaves him $60,000 short ofjust meeting the basic needs of a team expected to compete against powerhouses like the us So McFarlane is contributing $15,000 in proceeds from his next book on hurdles to make sure that the Canadian gets the extra week of training in Aus Ink: just to get acclimated. "I Gpecte2 a lot of work," said McFarlane about taking theOlympkjob. - _ - mul I Mr expected all the budget troubles" Waterloo coach goes out of pocket to fund Olympio dream The Waterloo Vikings lost the first Battle of Waterloo to the Bluevale Knights in October, but won the war last week with a 42-20 win over their cross-town rivals. The wm also earned the Knights a return visit to the WCSSM senior boys football championship this Friday night for the hrst time since winning the title In 1990. The win last Thursday at Bridgeport field was also sweet revenge of the 33-20 loss the Vikings suffered at the hands of Knights late last month at University Stadium. The Vikings will be up against a haunting Gall Ghosts team that upset undefeated St, David 3b28 last Thursday "It should be a heck of a matchup," said Vikings heal man Bob Taylor. r . . New or Reconditioned " aRattrs, il a? iit!gil - ' Y-L itaTQit"R CT2se v t_) k HOCKEY EQUIPMENT - TRADE IN YOUR ow SKATES I i: Vikings win Waterloo wag Bob Vrbanac Chmmdr 5mg In 1988 the Olympic budget was $3 million. In 2000 it is $1.2 million. some of Canadak best Olympic joined thy British My“: Wan-loos Wynn?! los hrndirrgforcdnadnbamtr tmrathktesShemightbe oneoftnarrrAoehoseto eusetheirotrmPicdream "ithothertmmtries Thatcashcrunchhascaused M l b _ p . . t 1e After lhe game Tnanlahlou w) _ ‘1; b WT sand the change In bMMP, Phl- , 'Ci' , . _ , losophy was due more to the ( f P: \K - shon gains the Wamors were V u making on 'rw') downs irswnd of or". B5MN (Ron ri, wm lilttF.1't _ r g the an: The Vikinp Simon Enin runs for a [el'hr down. “We werem fortunate to have of Gau hopefuls to look to other court- Ines to fund their medal dreams The Prrst high profile victim of penny-pinching politics of Canadian amateur sport is Walerloas own Kathy Butler. Butler, who ran for Canada in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, lost her and and was faxed to pay to compete. Without government sup- port, she was able to finish fourth in the world at last year's cross-country championships. Butler became a candidate for the Canadian Road to Excel- lence program, but an injury at the track championships in Seville, Spain this summer cost her the extra funding she A dual British/Canadian citi- zen, Butler has decided to run for Britain which suppon their track athletes to the tune of $10,000 a year. Now other Canadian athletes like middle-distance runner Graham Hood are contempUt- ing making the switch to other Olympic associations out of a sense of survival. have pitched the idea of an amateur sports lottery to su? port athletes like Butler and Hood but their pleas are falling on deaf ears. "Shelia Copps wont even meet with us," he said. McFarlanc and his wife Vicki There was something strange in the air Saturday at University Stadium as the high-flying Golden Hawks took on Wald» loo's own version of the road vTite9ioTstitiiroear Whack, Ryan Wilkinson, led the “aims to a has Cup victory. A Warriors team that promised to unleash the same ground onslaught that tripped up the Western- imead inweiird an air attack that proved that pigs, or " least pig skins could W. - Warriors win Yates Cup Mustangslastmck. Caught Hal- footed, the No. 4 ranked Hawks fell to the No. 6 War- riors 32-20 in the Yates Cup final. C 'v"iC'hYrahs till', The Hawks Andre Talbot makes a sensational nets in the last three catch for one of his two touchdowns last Saturday. years and the fitst for sophomore foeid goal w tie the game have a me head coach Chris Tnantafilou, Fifth-year quarterback Ryan a touchth Chnmicleslg the second and threes like last week," he said "So at times we had to throw the ball, and we thmwlhcball. "Sometimes it was effective, sometimesitwasugbbutsome- timesitwashxautihl" Oncoflhosc udyplayscame onthe1Maniorsfireatou:MowrL TheWtrtimsweretraitingthe Hawks early in the first quarter when theyset up for a 2iryard field goal to tie the game. Fifth-year quarterback Ryan Wilkinson fumbled the long snap, scrambled to his right and hit running back Mike Bradley with a touchdown pass to put he Warriors up 7-3. The Warridrs never trailed fiomthatpointoninthecomest Uurier pivot Adam lane fum- bkdintheendmneatthe start ofthesecomiqaartertogivethe wartioaaF3kai. Less than a minute later Wllkinson hit GramBaechkron a 6Syard run and catch to give the WarriOIs a 16-3 lad. halfwitha2b10kadafirrthe tans exchantsd touchdown ingatheHarksirthesecoui, ""'e "We had some §atlonal divine Intervention 'saturday. involved when we have a missed field goal tum into a Iouchdown," he said, "That was tought to fight back from." The Hawks also had four turnovers that cost them 10 points, The Warriors win has UW travelhingouteasttotalte on St. May: in the Atlantic Bowl Sat- uniay at 11 am. on TSN, The Warriors went into the AndreTalsLvenedthescor: half with h's mend touchdown of the day, but a late Wilkinson touch- down salted the game away for the Zmichsaidlhetum- ing poinl of the game came on the War- riots fumbled field goal attempt for a touchdown. Laurier coach Rick