… the pre-Olympic one-week training camp, followed by competition,
was arranged in early April of 1976 for a Canadian racewalking team of
six athletes and a coach in Mexico … the Canadians trained and learned
from the Mexican athletes and their coaches; however, when it came to
the competition, it was really an intra-Canadian affair first and foremost
… I finished with a PB performance for the 20 k distance (1:39.25.8); ...
Bio:
After retiring from teaching high school English and English as a Second Language, Glenn Arthur Sweazey moved to Ottawa from Toronto. He a leads a local group of writers, “In the Company of Writers,” when they meet twice monthly. He also teaches Newcomers Conversational English once a week at Ottawa’s Main Library. One past work includes a verse novel manuscript, The Lost Papers of Tom Thomson.