Page 12 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, July 30, 1976
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i Saul Hayes (second froiji left), retired Canadian Jewish Congress executive vice-president, receives i I plaque at Montreal Negev Dinner. Others from left are: Jewish National Fund of Canada President | S James F. Kay, Mrs. Hayes, Saidye Bronfman and dinner organizers Charles Bronfman and Gordon Brown. |
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By TOBA KORENBLUM CJN Staff Reporter
TORONTO —
In the wake of that monumental sports spectacular, the Olympics, comes another Olympiad replete with its political pock marks, biit without the attendant chauvinistic hoopla, and without the presence of any of Canada's national TV networks — the 19.76 Olym-. piad for the Physically Disabled.
The media and a large segment of an uneducated public are resistant to the ver\' idea of sports forthe disabled, says Marilee Weisman, a Toronto freelance writer. Co-author of So Get On With It, a pictorial essay on wheelchair sports, she has been confronted with and, incensed by general misconceptions about physical disabilities.
"Maiiy think of handicapped people as a drain on Society, as non-tax paying welfare recipie'nts, or pathetic things who can't hold * down a job," she says indignantly, "The Olympiad smashes apart the stereotype of people in chairs..,once you accept them on a physical basis then you can • take the attitude that they are worth considering for jobs, that they are worth providing accommodations for..."
Her 153:page book, recently released by Double-dayto coincide with the '76 ■'TorontoOlympiad", was born out of her frustration and the need to explain — the trauma of disability . and the value of sport'in the individual "s readjustment.
Not everyone can accept the idea of watching a man ina wheelchair .straining to reach the finish line in a lOG-metre race. When Ms.. Weisman first became interested in sports for the physically handi- . capped at an international meet in England, she couldn't interest Canadian editors in a story, on . one of the athletes.
Over 1.700athletes from some 60 countries will participate in a variety of events at Etobicoke's Centennial .Park Olympiurh, but CBC. CTV and Global did not consider the event worthy of in-depth coverage, she says.
"They didn't recognize it as a major sporting event jam-packed with more emotion — even just at the starting line." (She will be acting as anchorman on a six-hour-per-day coverage of the Olympiad through the joint effort of Toronto's cable stations.)
So Get On With It, though scanty on text, graphically, pictures the athletes participating in demanding physical activities from tearn basketball, weightlifting, and track and field to swimming, table tennis and archery.
While some spectators may feel at first that the Olympiad is nothing biit a "freak show" designed to draw pubUc sympathy, the impressive athletic performances should convert
them, notes the author.
Canada has . fielded, a team of 88 athletes for the Etobicoke Olympiad. Close in size is the Israeli team with 67 participants — many victims of the last polio outbreak in that country in the early '50s^. or war veterans. Tel Aviv was the site Of the..1968 disabled Olympics, and the Israelis have always entered a strong contingent.
Ms. Weisman, a 37-year-ofd mother of four, spent dose to two years involved with the story of the disabled athlete. A journalist who began her career four years ago with the Aurora Banner, she filmed a documentary at the; annual Stoke Man-deville Games in England titled A IVfotion Picture — which served as a model for the book.
She has felt a deep commitment; she says, and will direct royalties . and profits from So. Get On With It to the Olympiad.
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