[CIAM-F6-Working_Group] World Artistic Games - SportAccord Convention
- From: Guy Revel <guyrevel@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ciam-f6-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:56:04 +0200
Dear all,
Following the SportAccord Convention in Quebec, Canada, I received
the following message from FAI Secretary General (transmation below) :
"Lors du Congrès SportAccord auquel j'ai participé à fin mai à
Québec, j'ai représenté la FAI à une réunion spécifiquement consacrée
au projet des SportAccord World Artistic Games.
Ce ne sont malheureusement pas de très bonnes nouvelles que nous
avons reçues. Les discussions conduites par SportAccord avec deux
villes-hôtes potentielles en Chine n'ont pas encore donné les
résultats attendus, en particulier en raison de
problèmes d'infrastructures et de budget. Vu la situation,
SportAccord a entamé des discussions avec d'autres villes
potentielles en Asie, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord.
Il est désormais clair que les World Artistic Games n'auront pas lieu
en 2012. La probabilité que la première édition soit organisée en
2013 paraît faible. Par contre, les prochaines "fenêtres" les plus
probables semblent être mars-avril ou
septembre-octobre 2014. Un prochain point d'information aura lieu
dans le courant de l'automne 2012, probablement en novembre lors du
prochain Forum des Fédérations Internationales ici à Lausanne."
"During the SportAccord Convention in Quebec, Canada,, I represented
FAI at a meeting dedicated to the SportAccord World Artistic Games.
Unfortunately we didn't get very good news. The discussion conducted
by SportAccord with the Chinese potential hosts did not produce the
expected results, particularly due to infrastructure and budget
problems. In view of these difficulties,
SportAccord initiated further negociations with other potential host
cities in Asia, Europe and North America.
It is therefore clear that the World Artistic Games will not take
place during 2012. The probability that the first edition takes place
during 2013 appears to be remote. However, the most probable
subsequent time windows appear to be March/April or
September/October, 2014. Another information meeting will take place
in Autumn, 2012, probably during November at the forthcoming
International Sporting Federations Forum in Lausanne."
This means that the World Artistic Games will most certainly be
shifted by approximately one year. Due to the delay, we can expect
some of the already selected competitors to drop out, so it is
necessary to re-think the whole competitors selection so
as:
- Not penalize those competitors who entered the selection contests
this year, and
- Still offer a panel of the World's top pilots.
What we have to consider :
- Should the event take place by late 2013 or Spring 2014, it still
remains that the whole selection will have to be completed before the
2013-2014 Winter competition season as the final registration process
through the FAI office will begin approximately
six months before the event, so we should have the whole WArtGames
competitors panel complete by the end of the 2012-2013 Winter
competition season, in practice in time for the April, 2013 CIAM
Bureau meeting.
A positive result, at least, is that it offers the whole 2012-2013
Winter for AMA to set up a proper selection method for the two
expected North American competitors.
What to do now is open to discussion and I am looking forward to your
input. As said, we can expect at least some of the already selected
competitors to be unavailable (or with a degraded competitive level),
so obviously some additional
AeroMusicals F6B contests taking place by the end of this year or
until approximately March, 2013 will be required to fill up the
voids. A positive consequence is that, unlike at the beginning of
this year, we have time to plan everything and correctly
publicize these contests even if, at this point, we still cannot
mention the World Artistic Games as such. I remember that Jiri Havel
suggested holding a World Cup-like tour, this may be an idea to work out.
So please, I am looking for your input on how to handle things in
view of still having, in one year time, the best possible panel of
AeroMusicals competitors without penalizing those who made the effort
and expenses to qualify already and will still be
willing to compete at the World Artistic Games.
Guy R.
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