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It is always a treat to see when a member of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame gets the call to another hall.

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It is always a treat to see when a member of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame gets the call to another hall.


Last June, Ian Tetley was inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame in recognition of his success on the ice, which included three world titles with three different teams.


Local curling fans will fondly remember his first Brier and world titles in 1985 when he played second for skip Al Hackner.


Tetley followed that up in 1990 with Ed Werenich and in 1998 with Wayne Middaugh.


This past July a provincial sports group began honouring their history with the formation of the Northern Ontario 5-Pin Bowlers Association Hall of Fame.


Included amongst the inaugural slate of inductees are two team inductees in the NWOSHF, who were members of the 1975 Northern Ontario Open Mixed 5-Pin bowling team, Frank Massaro, who was inducted as a builder and Ron Stansfield, who was honoured as a player.


Other inaugural inductees into the NO5PBA Hall of Fame were builders Pat McNamara and Bill McLachlan, coaches Bob Taylor and Frank Lanzellotti and players Cathy Davidson and Dennis Umakoshi.


Last month it was Al Maddox who received some much deserved recognition for his decades of dedication to the Nordic ski community when he was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in the builder category.


Getting his start in 1975 as a race director and coach with the Lake Superior Ski Division, Maddox has never looked back, going on to serve for over 30 years as a FIS Technical Delegate, officiating at multiple World Cups, world championships and three Olympic Games and serving as the chief of competition at the 1995 Nordic championships when they were held in Thunder Bay.


Congratulations one and all.


During a recent educational program I was conducting at the SHOF with some students from Lakehead University, we had a very interesting discussion on what actually qualifies something as a sport to earn entry into a hall of fame.


We more or less concluded that one factor should be that it has a recognized international or national sport governing body with sanctioned and accredited competitions.


Another suggestion was that if it is part of the Olympics then it must be a sport.


With that in mind we started to consider some sports which at one time were part of the Olympics but are no longer, and some of the new Olympic sports which have emerged over the years, which turned out to be a very interesting conversation.


As part of the program I toured the students through the display gallery and one exhibit featured artifacts and photographs of athletes taking it to the extreme, competing in sports many of us would not be brave enough to try.


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