Dear Board,
I share Giovanni's point of view that the WHPVA should help the small
countries (from a HPV point of view) organizing the World championships.
World championships are great to mobilise local HPV people. If you do
things properly media also like to speak about HPV which aim to develop the
use of recumbents and other HPVs in the country.
In my opinion, a short guide with all the good ideas, a few template
letters and a planning would be a great help.
Anyway, even with the help of the WHPVA, the local representatives have to
be willing to organize the event. It is a must! Then, I think it may be a
bit too late now to ask people that have never organized any main HPV
championship to do so in 2016...
@Giovanni, do you personally know people from the countries you mentioned
who could organize the Worlds??
Best Regards,
Jean-Charles Gosselin
France-HPV
2015-10-06 11:20 GMT+02:00 Giovanni Eupani <eupani@xxxxxxxxxx>:
My personal vision (shared with the board, this is wy I take longer to
answer) is that we must try as WHPVA* to help nations that have never
organized a WC to do so, also if in some state there is not an hpv club I
think we can try to organize something, I'm thinking for example to Spain,
Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Czech Republic... here there are some
recumbent builder or group of bent rider but not a whpva club, we can
explore if there is the possibility to find a sport club (biking but not
only) that can help whpva to organize that as local organization. *(all
togheter we are whpva)
An other way to help organizing the event will be try to fix some standard
rules for the races, we certainly can leave to clubs the independence they
want, but fix a standard way to assign points, fix categories, etc. can be
a nice help as well as reduce the possibility of any claims. Also help find
some sponsors can be really useful, example for Monza 2011 we asked a known
manufacturer of tires any kind of help, but no response, the same company
was sponsoring many other events; just have the right contact will be
good...
This can go together with the world championship website, we can fix a
domain (can be hpv-worldchampionship.org) than after every WC the
organizing club last season, leaves the website managed by the incoming
club; all the webpages of the previous event will be stored on archive (I
think I already propose that idea); to change the logo and the photos on a
standard cms template (drupal as used by hpv.be but also joomla,
wordpress...) will be easy, save buttons and links, as also many
translations in as many languages as possible will be really a time saving
procedure.
The best solution will be to organize races on circuit and so to contact
race track and the respective City Mayor/President of province
Sometimes circuits are searching "silent event" to organize and so barter
other dates of "noise" with the council, a possibility will be to explore
if there are some circuits interested in that. Montmelò, Jarama, Valencia,
Brnò... many possibilities.
whpva can make a letter to these entities (in an English better than mine)
Is certainly to explore if we can have access to some sport found of the
EC and we must push to involve the junior, students and women
and please I do not want to see anymore (on forum and social) racers that
call lame other racers just because slower, as well as other that approve
or find that funny. I believe that these athletes should make a public
apology as well as personally, or must be excluded from our races. We race
all together, fast and slow, men and women, young and "not so young",
normal or with "superior abilities" (there are not disable people racing
with us, but racers with superior, stronger, bigger abilities, if they do
what we do!)
Every club can put some volunteers at disposal for the event, doesn't
really matter if a bit far from home, more than 100 or 1000km from home is
the same... This is already done now, and I do not name anyone, otherwise I
have to do all the names.
In the end People that put time in organize and contribute as volunteer
are more or less always the same, we can make a group inside whpva for that
people, like for the record committee, make a mailing list where all the
"willing volunteers" can meet,... .
Regards
Giovanni Eupani
Propulsione Umana
Human Powered Vehicles Italia
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