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SPORTQuest wins SNAP award for The Best Health/Fitness Website

GLOUCESTER, CANADA - October 21, 1998 -Health Canada and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) today launched Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living. People looking for additional information about fitness can look under General Fitness at http://www.sportquest.com/resources/sportscience2.cfm?scat=General%20%2D%20Fitness.

   SPORTQuest is a web directory of over 13,000 qualified sport and fitness information websites, which recently won the coveted SNAP award for 'Best Site' under the Health: Fitness category. Visitors to the General Fitness pages on SPORTQuest will find links to websites ranging in subject from aerobics to keyboard yoga.

   "Staying fit can and should be fun. Learning about the benefits or discovering new physical activities can often stimulate increased physical participation" comments Debra Gassewitz, President, SIRC.

   To discover additional fitness information, test out the SIRCDetective at www.sircdetective.com. This service searches the SPORTDiscus Sport and Fitness Database of over 450,000 bibliographic references collected from around the world. The easy-to-use database is an excellent tool for helping to find references to articles, books, periodicals, videos etc. SPORTDiscus covers over 88 different sports and a multitude of sport and fitness related subjects ranging from family or employee fitness, to youth or seniors recreational activities. A copy of the complete article/book chapter etc. can be ordered conveniently via SIRCExpress (a document photocopy service offered from SIRC).The SIRCDetective is FREE until October 31, 1998 (after which time it is only US$49.95/month).

   Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC), the world leader in identifying and disseminating sport information, is a non-profit organization which serves the sporting, fitness, academic, medical and corporate communities. Products and services available from SIRC include SPORTQuest (the award winning website for sport and fitness information), SPORTDiscus, SIRCDetective, RECPark (database of recreational information), SIRCRetriever (custom profiles), and SIRCExpress (a document photocopy service).

For more information please contact:

Debra Gassewitz

President and CEO

SIRC

Tel : +1 (613) 231-7472, Ext 224

Toll Free: +1 (800) 665-6413 North America

Fax: +1 (613) 231-3739

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