Gramantik's run finished

[Charlie_Francis]

@kitkat1

Internet Column:)

From the blue Maple Leaf to the red one.

After what we would consider the best Olympics in the history of Canadian track and field, Athletics Canada did the obvious thing with their head coach Les Gramantik.

They fired him.

We’ll spend a moment on the topic, only because it will be the last time in the next four years we expend any words on an organization that would do anything this patently stupid. :o

[b]Get this - the poobahs at Athletics always had it in for Gramantik because he was accessible to the media. When something happened in the track world, you could always get a Canadian spin on it from a very credible track voice in Gramantik.

A column was always a phone call away with Gramantik. Now, whatever the pittance of press Athletics Canada gets between Olympic Games will fall off by 65 percent, after this brilliant decision by the tall foreheads in Ottawa.[/b]

Without a superstar like a Donovan Bailey or Perdita Felicien in Beijing, Canada’s track teams still racked up more Top 8 finishes than ever in Beijing. Gramantik’s own athlete, Calgary heptathlete Jessica Zelinka, finished fifth, which is unheard of in Canadian track.

And the bozos running the show fire the coach.

Nice work, folks. Real fine work.

Mark Spector is the lead columnist for sportsnet.ca

Best results ever eh?? Better than 4 Canadians leaving with 5 Golds in Atlanta? Hmm.