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Video Petitclerc r! eturns home from Beijing Sept. The Corner The Jim Proudfoot Corner part of the Star Santa Claus Fund is a great way for sports fans to help out needy children during the Christmas season. If you can help please send a cheque payable either to Jim Proudfoot Corner or to Star Santa Claus Fund and mail it c o Dave Perkins Toronto Star Sports Dept. One Yonge St. Toronto M E E . Tax receipts are issued for amounts of and above. Petitclerc caps year with another victory Three months after blazing through Beijing wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc is still stuck in an Olympic fog. Dec AM Be the first to comment on this article. Dave Perkins I t s now official according to committee chair Silken Laumann that all future winners of the Lou Marsh Trophy will have one thing in common with all past winners they will be human rather than equine. Count the present as having a human face too with the decision from the voter panel yesterday to name Chantal Petitclerc as Canada s athlete of! the year for and if she didn t get this vote she certainly gets these congratulations and deserves them. Her level of achievement not only this year but in her career makes her worthy of any accolade she acquires. This is a champion through and through. Once again there wasn t a unanimous selection and once again there wouldn t have been a bad winner from the short list of finalists that included in no particular order Simon Whitfield Justin Morneau Carol Huynh Jeffrey Buttle Eric Lamaze and Daniel Nestor. Another names were on a larger list that required paring and there were good arguments made for some of them too. There is no shortage of first rate athletic talent in this country. Never is. All that said the name Somebeachsomewhere arose first on the agenda because of a calm and rational campaign begun within the industry to at least get him into the minds if not the pens of Marsh voters. The sensational year old pacer owned in Nova Scotia will surely win all available horse of the year awards but the Marsh committee having never seen a f! our legged representative on the short list before wasn t sure there will ever be a time to start breaking new ground in this area. That wasn t a unanimous decision either but surely will receive more widespread approval than if it had gone the other way. Still it doesn t preclude horse oriented athletes jockeys drivers Lamaze and the jumping set from being considered as individuals for future honours. Once that was straightened out Petitclerc s was the name that after all the others had been batted around kept standing out to enough voters. There is no easy way to argue the merits of equestrian medals versus runs batted in against a doubles tennis ranking and so on. The discussion always is about apples and oranges and after five gold medals in Beijing the pinnacle of a career spent at the top of her game Petitclerc turned out to be the very deserving apple of this committee s eye. ON THE CORNER After another outstanding season training thoroughbreds Reade Baker remembers ! his old friend Jim Proudfoot . There s in his memory from Reade and Janis Maine to begin today s Jim Proudfoot Corner. Right beside comes Gord Sammon who used to give Chester a notorious non driver a lift up to South River. Gord adds as do rugby enthusiasts Bob and Jeane Elder of West Hill. More reliable regulars check in with including John and Myra Lofts of Oakville and Rich and Sandy Howsam of Stouffville. Ken and Doreen Chevis of Whitby add in memory of son in law Richard Appleton and freshly retired Star football guy Rick Matsumoto and wife Lorraine hand in to celebrate the arrival of their first grandchild Lila Joyce . This stuff is catching Retired Star man Alf Hilton sends in celebration of his first grandchild Thomas . Another arrives quietly from across the office. Frank Selke never misses helping the kids mailing in Chester s honour the same as Eric Dionne of Etobicoke. Jack Churchill of Oshawa makes it an amount matched by Steve Lancaster an old Greenwood guy. It will all buy plenty of gift boxes for those kids across the GTA. 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