Saturday, November 16, 1991

YOUR CASTLEGAR SAFEWAY

Serving You Right — Every Day

Gov't. Insp. Beef Standing

Rib Roast

$8.13/kg.

PURE BEEF BURGERS

Gov't. Insp.

Regular or

Seasoned.

5 Ib. box. cca

FLOUR

Five Roses * 10 kg. bag
Limits in effect Limit 1 ¢ Overlimit $3.48

.4.44)|.2.98

Miracle Whip

Kraft * 1 Litre

POTATO CHIPS

Nalley's * Assorted * 200 g.
Limit 2/ order * Overtimit $1.29

ea

PEPSI AND 7-UP

eee yg

Diet or
Regular.
2 Litre
Bottles

SUNRYPE
APPLE JUICE

1 Litre + Limits in effect

..88 |.1.98

EDWARD'S FRESH
COFFEE MUSHROOMS
300 G

Money's * $4.39 kg.

1”

TRI V
DOG FOOD

703 g.

TRI V DRY
DOG FOOD
8 kg. Fresh © #1 Florida

5° ||_.79

TOMATOES

LocalSPORTS

FastLANE

KIVHL

Friday Games
Castlegar at
Grand Forks
Columbia Valley
at Nelson

Sat. Games
Columbia Valley
at Castlegar
Grand Forks at
Nelson

Golden at Elk
Valley

Beaver Valley at
Spokane

Sunday Games
Columbia Valley
at Beaver Valley

Elk Valley at
Spokane

B-BALL

The finals in the
fourteam Mini-
Basketball
League go
Sunday morming
at SHSS.

.ON THE
ROAD

The Selkirk
College men's
and women's
volleyball teams
are at Cariboo
College in

tournament of
the season.

SCHOOL

The SHSS swim
team is in
Vancouver this
weekend for the
provincial

Belczyk

@ Castlegar native Felix
Belczyk is back on Canada’s
alpine ski team, and now he
wants back in the group of
the world’s best downhillers

Ed Mills
SPORTS EDITOR

Felix Belczyk likes being the
underdog.

It’s not a role he’s used to, and
he isn't planning on playing it very
long, but he likes it all the same.

The, 10-year veteran of the
Canadian men’s ski team, said
being an underdog gives him
something to shoot for on the
World Cup ski circuit this season.

“I think being the underdog
sort of takes the pressure off
initially,” the Castlegar native
said Thursday from his hotel room
in Kananaskis, Alta., where the

nat team is training.

“If I don't get resultg early that
preven could increase quickly,

t initially I think it’s a good
place to be.”

The place Belczyk is talking
about is 68th on the World Cup
downhill rankings. He can't
remember the last time his stock
was so low heading into a season.

“It's been a long time since I’ve
been this far back. It’s not a
problem, but it’s not a place I want
to hang out either,” he said.

As usual though, Belczyk is
looking at his lot in a positive way.

He says back-of-the-pack status
offers him an element of surprise
he hasn't had in the last few years.

“It’s a different situation for me
altogether, because they don't
expect people from that far back
to do well in races. I like that.”

So with the first World Cup

championships.

slow and build up toward the end

of the year. But this year I really

don’t have that luxury. I have to

sort of change my mode and get
‘to come on early.”

He has an ambitious timetable

is Ba

For the first time in a long time, Canadian men’s ski team member Felix Belczyk is an underdog heading

into the World Cup.

for getting back in the top 20.

“The first race is in Val D’Isere
(France) December 7, and there's
two more races before Christmas,
so I have three chances to move
myself into the first group before
Christmas.”

For someone without Belcezyk’s
credentials that goal would be
laughable. But the 30-year-old
won a world cup race just
years ago and has had a dozen top-
10 finishes in the last three years
on the circuit.

“The way it works these days in
racing is that as soon as you get
one good result it’s applied

season. But he’s looking at his lot positively.

“]’m looking for a medal
in the Olympics, that’s
my goal. And right now

I want to improve my
rankings as soon as
possible.”
Felix Belczyk

“Going into the spring, I wasn't
really sure whether I wanted to
come back or not. But I went to the
first training camp and made up
my mind.”

In the three camps since then,
Belczyk has discarded the brace
that had protected his injured
knee and is skiing with the
confidence that was hard to find at
times last year.

Now he says he’s focused on two
major goals that would put an

ion point on his career.

immediately to your rankings, so
you can go from the back of the
pack one day to right into the first
group the next day,” he said.

Last year he did the exact

opposite.

Belczyk dropped out of the top
20 early last season after having
problems adjusting to new ski
boots. Then just as he was starting
to put in a couple of top-10
finishes, a knee injury during
training at Lake Louise finished
him for the season.

At that point, Belezyk was
openly contemplating quitting the
team.

“T’m looking for a medal in the
Olympics, that’s my goal. And
right now I want to improve my
rankings as soon as possible.”

Both goals will require Felix
Belezyk’s best season ever.

“Every year is a challenge,
that’s basically what keeps me
going — trying to overcome,” he
said.

Perhaps foreshadowing his
thoughts for the season, Belczyk
celebrated his 30th birthday in
August by going ski diving with
friends.

If things go according to plan,
that will be his only fall this
season.

Prices in Effect Sun., Nov. 17.-— Sat., Nov.20

Monday - We
9am.-6p.m. —

y & Friday Sunda’
9 a.m.-9 p.m. 19.a.m. - p.m:

63 SAFEW. AY Talk to us today.

We bring it all together We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities, cho Be : ‘KSE