导出博客文章Canadian coaching has lost one of its leaders, and the sport of track and field
one of its most eloquent voices. Geoff Gowan died in Halifax on Thursday night
at the age of 83 after a lengthy struggle with Parkinsons disease. Gowan was a
member of both the Order of Canada and Canadas Sports Hall of Fame, and to track
and field fans was an articulate broadcaster who "could turn a phrase as easily
as any Olympian clears a hurdle," said longtime CBC producer Terry Ludwick. "He
taught Canadians how to watch track and field," said Ludwick, now a broadcasting
executive with the CBC. "He could sum up victory and defeat in such human terms,
but with technical expertise that could be understood by a schoolboy or
schoolgirl. And he had such a great sense of humour and great appreciation for
the athletes that he covered. His articulation was such that its almost
difficult to watch track and field now without hearing a British voice." The
native of Ravenglass, England, travelled the globe covering track and field,
covering countless Olympics and world championships. Ludwick remembers being in
the broadcast boost with Gowan for the high jump at one particular meet. "We
showed three or four replays for each competitor. One particular athlete went
over and they werent successful and the bar went down. And we showed three or
four replays, and towards the last one Geoff said And no matter how many times
we show this replay, the bar will not stay up," Ludwick recalled, with a laugh.
Gowan also dedicated much of his life to coaching development, and was technical
director and president of the Coaching Association of Canada from 1972 to 96. In
his 25 years with the national organization, he was instrumental in developing
the National Coaching Certification Program, considered to be among the best
coaching education programs in the world, and the program that has helped
developed more than a million Canadian coaches. "Geoff was an outstanding leader
in Canadian sport, and influenced thousands of athletes, coaches, and colleagues
in sport management and the media. He has been a friend, role model, and mentor
to myself and many others in Canadian sport, and will be deeply missed," CAC
chief executive officer John Bales said in a statement. A lasting tribute to
Gowans leadership is the annual Geoff Gowan Award, which recognizes lifetime
contribution to coaching development. Many of Canadas top coaches have won the
award, including Jack Donahue, Doug Clement, Al Morrow, Donald Dion, Charles
Cardinal, Andy Higgins, Tim Frick, Allison McNeill, Lyle Sanderson, Dru Marshall
and Keith Russell. "He was a really gracious human being," Ludwick said. "As a
coach, he understood that in everyone there was a champion that could be coaxed
out in whatever walk of life they were." Longtime CBC broadcaster Steve Armitage
remembered Gowan as a tireless worker who could put in gruelling 13 and 14-hour
days without showing the slightest bit of fatigue. Gowan worked alongside the
late Don Wittman covering track and field for 26 years, making for what Armitage
called "one of the great combinations in Canadian broadcasting history." "He and
Don (who died of cancer in 2008) really prided themselves in never having an
argument," Armitage said. "Geoff was so good. He was, in his delivery and in his
vocabulary, almost Churchillian," Armitage added. "He would say things and he
would say it in such a manner that after you heard it you would just go Wow. How
did he come up with that? And his wasnt the shotgun, machine-gun approach to
play-by-play. He would use his words sparingly and let the action tell the
story." Longtime CBC sportscaster Mark Lee was similarly impressed with Gowans
spine-tingling delivery. "His voice crackled with authority when he called track
and field," Lee said. "His choice of words was so poetic, and his English accent
gave him that distinguished quality that really separated him from the rest of
the broadcasters. He was such a scholarly man when it came to track and field. .
. but his ability to use his knowledge and distill it into 10 seconds of
sterling broadcast quality with a delivery that came right out of Madison Avenue
-- he was a really remarkable person that way." Lee remembers being Gowans
partner in the booth for one of Donovan Baileys world championship 100-metre
victories -- Donovan won the 100 metres at both the 1995 world championships and
96 Olympics. "During the replay, right from the blocks when the gun went off,
Geoff counted off One. . . two. . . three. . . four. . . five. . . six. .
.seven. . . eight. . . nine. . . 10, and I started leaning into the monitor to
watch this," Lee recalled. "He got up to 44 and Donovan crossed the finish line
and Geoff said, 44 steps: the first 10 with the explosion of a race engine and
the next 15 accelerating leanly and smoothly, with the gait of a gazelle, and
then relaxing through the last 10, or whatever. "But he counted every stride to
the finish line. And at the end he said 44 strides to victory. It was so
simple." Gowan could switch storytelling gears with ease, calling a field event
or long-distance race with similar expertise. "It was remarkable to watch an
endurance event like a mens 5,000 metres," Lee said. "He would get right inside
an athletes head. The cameras would show you these grimacing close-ups and Geoff
would tell you that the mind was willing but the body was failing in this case.
Or he could tell you in a 400 metres that with 100 metres to go the lactic acid
was coursing through a runners quads and his legs were beginning to feel heavy
and rubber, and now it was just survival to get to the finish line without tying
up and his body crippling him. "It was just a remarkable description of the
human body at its best." "This was live too. He would choose these very
descriptive passages right off the top of his head in a live broadcast," Lee
added. "There are very very few people in this world who can do that." Gowan was
inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2002. He also
received an honorary doctorate in civil law from Acadia University for his
service to sport in Canada. Details on funeral arrangements have not been
released.
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