WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
venues for 72 World and Olympic sports. Tere will also be schools — elementary through college. It’s even a green concept with envi- ronmentally friendly, sustainable systems. Tere will be an associated not-for-profit organization that offers kids scholarships to train in various sports.
A small-scale version of Te Sports Resort is about to break
ground in Camarillo, Calif., where Wood and his wife have lived since 1989. He anticipates it will be finished in about two years. “It allows us to beta test all of our systems and programs,” he
said. “We will have a place where people come where we can teach them our brand.” Tere are five cities interested in developing the full-scale proj-
ect, and Wood hopes within five years at least two full developments will be complete. Wood said his own personal philosophies about sports and life come into play.
“Te discipline and the things that you learn in sport apply in
life,” he said. “In sport you either do it or you don’t do it. “It’s all on you. It’s your full accountability and responsibility. Tat in and of itself teaches tremendous skills. You’ve got motiva- tional skills, goal-setting and the whole spectrum of what you have to do for success in life.” Wood keeps in good shape, hitting the gym four days a week.
He also skates two or three times a week. He promises to perform at the opening of the first rink associated with Te Sports Resort. He watches skating on television and expressed his frustrations with what he sees. He intends for Te Sports Resort rink to have a figures program that will reintroduce young skaters to the sport’s fundamentals. “I can’t change the sport, the direction where it’s going or the
judging,” Wood said. “What I can do is build our own facilities here and institute the things that I want to do … from the ground up.”
Tim Wood enjoyed a stellar amateur skating career, which included an Olympic silver medal in 1968. He’s pictured on the Olympic podium in Grenoble, France, with Austrian Wolfgang Schwarz, center, and France’s Patrick Pera, right.
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