[CIAM-F6-Working_Group] Re: World Artistic Games - SportAccord Convention
- From: Jiří Havel <jiri.havel@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ciam-f6-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:50:52 +0200
Dea Guy,
Such news are not supporting the atmosphere among the interested pilots and
according to my opinion it is forceing us to do new selection during 2013 or
better to say, one year before the firmly fixed term of the WArtG contest, not
sooner!
We have now much better informations about the good pilots in the interested
countries and to organize such new selection would not be problem. Hopefully
Sport Accord will finally select some other (for all more suitable) city which
would be rich enough to cover the costs of the event.
Jiri Havel
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On Behalf Of Guy Revel
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:56 PM
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Cc: Antonis Papadopoulos; "Kevin Dodd <kevindodd47@xxxxxxxxxxx>"@freelists.org;
Bob Brown; FAI Secretary General
Subject: [CIAM-F6-Working_Group] World Artistic Games - SportAccord Convention
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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