Did Canada goose step into the opening ceremony at the 1972 Munich Olympics?

    Canadian weightlifter Maurice Allan, (1927-1990), the chef-de-mission for the Canadian Olympic team in the 1972 Munich Olympics, vigorously led Canada's Olympians in West Germany, striding with something like a goose step, according to Dick Pound, who said he and others did their best to keep up.

  His fellow-Montrealer Dick Pound was and remains a fearless athletic legend and all-round awesome guy who isn't afraid to let 'er rip. Coolopolis loves him to bits. 

   A published interview with Allan and Pound conducted soon after the event suggests that Canadian Olympic contingent might've been high-stepping as a wink to their Krautish hosts whose once-regrettable military favoured the maneuver when at war with Canada and the Allies three decades earlier. 

 According to that published article: 

   Chef-de-mission Maurice Allan, of Quebec City, cut quite a figure stomping along at the front of the pack with the high, wide stride he carried all the way to the finish.

      "I was trying to set an example for all the others to follow," he said later. "after all, there aren't too many military types on the Canadian Olympic team." 

   "Oh, I don't know, said assistant chef and Canadian Olympic Association secretary Dick Pound. "I thought we were doing pretty well coming across the bridge. We sounded like the next coming of the Wehrmacht. Everyone in step ... whump, whump, whump. 

   "But then everyone started laughing."    

"Canadians Olympic parade with 'feather' in their caps" by Doug Glbert Montreal Gazette 28 August 1972, pg 21

  The Canadian contingent does its march at about 29:30.  Judge for yourself here.