By TERRY JONES -- Edmonton Sun
 SYDNEY -- Double DQ.

 Sounds like something you might order at Dairy Queen. But it was a double disqualification for Canadians in the 50-km walk at the Olympics. And this is becoming a habit.

 Tim Berrett of Edmonton has had mostly DQs beside his name since he finished 14th at the 1995 worlds and 10th at the Atlanta Olympics. Ditto Arturo Huerta who was 42nd at Atlanta.

 This was embarrassing.

 Berrett was out so early he was back in the mixed zone before the 4 x 100 relay sprinters. And they were the next event on the program after they sent the walkers out of the stadium. At least Huerta hung in there long enough to return after the sprinters were finished. But he had to wait on Canadian media people who were interviewing Glenroy Gilbert and the boys to tell everybody how he failed to finish.

 "I don't know what to say,'' said Berrett.

 "It's frustrating. They took me out at 21 kilometres,'' he said of three violations for his feet losing contact with the pavement.

 "When I saw I had two cards up, I slowed it down a little bit. Maybe I should have speeded it up instead.''

 He suffered the same fate at Seville 1999, the last World Championships in Athletics.

 "Seville was different,'' he said. "I was nowhere near as fit as I am now. I was training specifically for the 50K walk all year.''

 One more year, he said of returning for Edmonton 2001.

 "I'll see if I can get it right next year. The frustrating thing is I don't know what else I could have done. In the 20K I had no warnings from the judges and I did the 20K five and a half minutes faster.''

 Huerta had no excuses.

 "There's not much to talk about,'' he said of talking the talk when you don't walk the walk.

 "It's hard to take a DQ, especially at the Olympic Games. You don't want to be disqualified. You want to finish.''