Posted AT 2:59 AM EDT on 03/10/06
Lack of good facilities hurts development of future athletes
Bruce Kidd grew up and made his way on to Canada's Olympic team from the public parks in Toronto. The club he belonged to in the early 1960s used a cinder track that was available to everybody and which his coach used to groom by dragging a grate behind his car.
Rudimentary, sure, but good enough for Mr. Kidd, now 63, to win two medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Games and to compete in the 1964 Olympic Games.
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