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Former Wildcat Jeremy Pike Entering
His Fourth Season in AUS

By Micaela Wylie- Arbic varsity athlete. For Pike, football has always University 29-8, winning the Loney Bowl
been an aspect of his upbringing and being (the AUS Football Conference of U Sports)
ornwall Wildcats football export and given the opportunity to play varsity has been to move on to the Mitchell Bowl. The boys
Cformer Holy Trinity star quarterback, a long-time dream. came short losing in the semi-final; losing
Jeremy Pike, has geared up for his fourth and “I gained experience last year when I their ticket to the Vanier Cup.
final year at St. FX in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, dressed but didn’t start,” Pike said, “It’s a Pike sees this as his last chance to bring
with hopes of snagging the AUS conference huge challenge but it’s been four plus years of it all home. And if all goes well with this
once again and landing a chance to clinch the work here in the making.” season, he could remain at St. FX to play two
Vanier Cup. “I’ve developed mentally just becoming an more years of football after this year, all while
The wide receiver got his first career overall smarter player, and physically - with earning his education degree.
start in their home opener versus St. Mary’s years of grinding to make me a different player When asked about post-grad, Pike says
University this August, marking a pivotal now compared to rookie year,” he added. ideally he would like to travel for a couple
moment for his senior year to follow. This year brings big expectations for years before getting into a teaching career.
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The past three years have been no cake the X-men’s football. Last year, St. FX Pike gets into full-swing play with two
walk for the 21-year-old where he has learned placed first in the Atlantic University Sport back-to-back weekends in September with
the real workings of what it takes to be a (AUS) conference, defeating Mount Allison games moving into the end of October.
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Now that the NHL has dropped out of the Olympics, should the Olympics remove all “professional
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athletes” in all sports and make it a truly amateur event again? Do you feel any NHL players will
ignore the NHL and attend the Olympics regardless of the consequences?
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Gilles Gaudet - Sports Enthusiast -During the past few years the distinction between being a professional and an amateur athlete has all
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but been obliterated. In my opinion all Olympic athletes are now professional in some form or other, and the word amateur is no longer in
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the Olympic dictionary. The Olympics are a business and like any other business the bottom line is critical. Having NBA, NHL, Tennis, and
Golf stars in the line up is good for business. Now that Bettman and his cronies want a bigger piece of the Olympic pie we may be forced to
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watch Talbot, Raymond, and Scrivens instead of Crosby, McDavid, and Price. Watching ex NHL and AHL players in the Olympics is akin
to going to the “Port” to watch a cover band. The venue is good, the price is right, the beer is cold, but it ain’t the real thing. I don’t believe
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that any NHL’ers will take part in the next Olympics, because of the personal negative financial implications of leaving their respective teams.
Let the games begin.
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Jake Lapierre - Conditioning Coach - Professional athletes competing in the Olympic Games have been and continue to be an on-going
debate; the NHL has announced it will not be participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang , South Korea and I don’t agree with
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Gary Bettman & the NHL’s decision. Let’s step back and review the origin of Olympic Games.
When the Olympics were created there was no such thing as “professional” sporting events. Every athlete in the world was considered an
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amateur; the best of the best athletes from around the world, competed against each other for the glory of being the best in the world, period. I
believe it’s important for the Olympics to regain and maintain the status of highlighting the world’s best without fear of stepping on someone’s
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feelings because of an inability to compete in all venues; that said I do support the rules and drug testing to control the cheaters. If you’re
going to compete, you better be clean!
Is the host nation (South Korea) going to win a medal in ice hockey, I’m thinking no, but I believe they have the potential to win other events.
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Nations around the world will tune in to watch the world’s best compete. I believe the Olympics should remain an event highlighting the
“world’s” best competing for the glory of being the best.
Jim Riddell - Seaway Karate Club - The decision to skip the Olympics was one that was made by the NHL and not by the players. The
players are not happy with that decision but in the end the vast majority will probably respect it. The shift towards allowing professionals to
compete began in the 1980’s as a means of levelling the playing field with the Eastern Bloc countries that fully supported and paid athletes to
train and compete. It is very unlikely that the Olympics will ever go back to being an amateur only event. The involvement of well-known
professional athletes ensures commercial success for the TV networks as many more viewers will be tuning in to watch their favourite athletes
compete.