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March 2000

Games in March
Arctic Winter Games, Whitehorse, Canada, March 5-11
Australian Corporate Games, Sydney, Australia, March 16-19
Windsor Classic Indoor Games, Windsor, Canada March 24-26

Four Pan-Am Defectors from last summer's games in Winnipeg have been allowed to stay in Canada and have been given refugee status. Fencer Aristides Faure, Sprinter Misael Ortiz, Gymnast Yohandri Diaz and softball coach Jose Mendez will stay in Canada. All are said to be adjusting to the cold weather are learning English and are "very happy." Six other Cuban athletes defected from the games but their whereabouts are unknown.

The 2003 World University Games (Universiade) host city was scheduled to be chosen the last week of February. This has been postponed until July 13-14 at the FISU Executive Committee meetings in Beijing. The postponement was at the request of the bidding cities of Moscow, Izmir (Turkey) and Monterrey, (Mexico). FISU will now allow other cities wishing to bid for the games to make presentations.

Over 600 athletes are expected for this year's Windsor Classic Indoor Games in Windsor, Ontario, Canada featuring track, field, swimming, boccia, powerlifting, sled hockey and wheelchair tennis. The games are multi-disability, for athletes age 6 and up.

There's something about the Olympic Games that inspires quiltmakers to create. The Quiltmakers of Georgia created some 400 quilts as gifts for official visitors to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Now Sydney has joined in the quiltmaking spirit with an official fundraiser for the 2000 Paralympic Games. Over 500 Quilts may be viewed online, and all are available for purchase.

Olympic archery gold medalist Justin Huish, has been arrested on charges of selling marijuana to police in California this past month. Huish, now 25, and a housemate, Brian Mastrangelo, 24, each face up to four years in prison if convicted of possession of marijuana for sale. Police detectives had been investigating the two for over a month.

Anniversaries

70 Central American and Caribbean Games, Havana, Cuba March 15-April 5 1930

60 SELL Games Winter Otepaa, Estonia, March 2-3,1940

50 Central American and Caribbean Games, Guatemala City, Guatemala,Feb. 8 - March 12,1950

40 World University Games Winter Chamonix, France, Feb. 28 - Mar. 6,1960

30 Central American and Caribbean Games Panama City, Panama, Feb 27 - March 14, 1970

30 Arctic Winter Games Yellowknife, Canada, March 8-14,1970

20 Arctic Winter Games Whitehorse, Canada, March 16-22, 1980

20 Arctic Winter Games Yellowknife, Canada, March 11-17, 1990

10 Asian Winter Games Sapporo, Japan, March 9-14, 1990

10 CARIFTA Games Kingston, Jamaica, March 19-21, 1990

Games in April 2000
 
Pacific School Games, Sydney, Australia, April 27 - May 8