onsdag 21. mars 2007

Mer nedfall fra US sailings forslag til OL klasser i 2012

Siden jeg ble beskyldt for ubegrunnet ryktespredning..

http://www.usmultihull.org/

Denne nettsiden er satt opp av Michael Grandfield, klassepresidenten i det internasjonale Tornado forbundet m.fl. Her er meldingen som gjorde meg oppmerksom på linken til usmultihull.org

Hi All,

The issues are quite stark.

US SAILING has put forward a slate of 6 dinghy events, 2 keelboat events, and no multihull events
• 1 of the dinghy events does not yet exist
• 1 of the dinghy events has yet to produce an Olympic medal for the USA.
• 1 of the keelboat events has yet to produce an Olympic medal for the USA.
• The multihull event has produced Olympic medals for the USA in 4 of the 7 Olympic Regattas attended by the US Team.
How could anyone feel that US SAILING has been fair, or rational, or impartial?

The submission also states: “This slate of Events is representative of the sport as it is practiced around the World. As a result, it is likely that this slate will increase the number of countries competing in the Olympic Regatta.”
These statements are not true:
• Approximately 25% of the racing in the world is done in multihulls. A slate that reduces multihulls to zero is not ‘representative’.
• The slate will do nothing to increase the number of countries at the Olympic Regatta. The data has been clear for years:
Increases in the number of countries at the Olympic Regatta result only when there are increases in the size of the single-handed fleets
At Athens, sailing failed to meet the IOC country target so the size single handed events will be increased at the expense of the multi-handed events – which will get fewer entries
For comparison, here is what happens if more countries are allowed into the double or triple handed events:
1. say that the 5 current double-handed boats each had 35 entries,
2. that would take 350 of the 380 athletes for only 5 medals… and fall more than 20 countries short of the IOC target of 67 countries.
3. The other 5 events could then have 6 sailors each…

The US SAILING submission fails to give multihull sailors any representation; it fails to tell the truth; it fails to demonstrate that US SAILING understands how fleet sizes and competitive opportunity in the various Olympic events will be managed.
However, despite its failings it will succeed at hurting multihull sailing. And, it will be joined by no-multihull submissions form other countries (Canada, Denmark, and perhaps others).

If you are fouled in a race, you should be able to expect the other guy to acknowledge the foul and take a penalty or withdraw, If not, you can and should protest.
If you are not willing to defend your rights, and keep the sport clean, then don’t be surprised when your rights are abused – or when you discover that you don’t have them anymore.

The US SAILING Board did not have the right to discard the multihull event from the slate of Olympic Events. Many of us asked the Board to acknowledge the foul, but instead they have suggested that we support them for having discarded us.
If you won’t defend the right to have a multihull event at the Olympic regatta, then what would you defend?

It is not ‘going too far’ to protest the actions of the Board; in fact it looks like multihull sailors have already lost some very basic rights.
And unless we enjoy being abused, we should perhaps be more concerned that a protest could be too little, too late.

Here is a link to the website where you can read the submission, read the complaint, and defend what rights you have left by calling on US SAILING to be accountable.

HTTP://WWW.USMULTIHULL.ORG
Regards,
Mike Grandfield

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