or imagine if they'd put those beach volley ball costumes on women and had them entered in a Greco-Rroman event. Whoo whee! Now that would be sure to increase audience interest in your sport.

At risk of being repetitious, Good on ya Sydney! Great fun!

It takes a Greco-Roman wrestler down on his knees kissing the Canadian flag to bring a nationalistic tear to me eye. Channelling our agressions into the ritual of sport rather than waging war seems like a good alternative to me. Gives us bystanders a chance to blow off steam.

Lyrical Lady, at least B.C. secondary schools have extracurricular organised teams and it is available as an elective. Then there's computers, or something associated with the word technology. Hell, they fall all over themselves. But try getting support and music programmes into schools in B.C. at any grade level. Some hard.