Gliding - an olympic sport?

[Bill Vandertosh]

The Kiwis seem to have worked out how to capture the
race using helicopters to gapture the gaggles on film
and GIS systems to predict thermals etc. In this day
and age of advanced met and digital
technology...

Will it ever make it to the podiums?

Tried this post on UK RAS and got zero replies. Does
anyone think we have a chance in hell of ever going
for gold?

[Tuno]

See thread from August 2004:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.soaring/browse_frm/thread/a235476855370b12/879b30e2b0db38eb?lnk=gst&q=olympic&rnum=1#879b30e2b0db38eb

Not much has changed.

-ted/2NO

[Al Eddie]

At 20:48 03 May 2007, Bill Vandertosh wrote:
>
>Does anyone think we have a chance in hell of ever
>going
>for gold?
>

Sure.

At the Grand Prix, or the World Championships.

If it aint broke, don't try to fix it...

;o)

[arturo]

On May 4, 4:05 am, Al Eddie > wrote:
> At 20:48 03 May 2007, Bill Vandertosh wrote:
>
>
>
> >Does anyone think we have a chance in hell of ever
> >going
> >for gold?
>
> Sure.
>
> At the Grand Prix, or the World Championships.
>
> If it aint broke, don't try to fix it...
>
> ;o)

IMHO i guess a lot of things has changed since 2004. With the
development of the Grand Prix launched in 2005 in St Auban and
following GP's and ever better working tracking systems....

may be the German Idea of the 30's get true, and we will go 4 gold ;)

[Stephen]

"Bill Vandertosh" > wrote in message
...
>
> Tried this post on UK RAS and got zero replies.

That's because we did the subject to death just after London got the 2012
Olympics. For 2012 it's impossible because the sports are decided at least
7 years before the event. Beyond that it's not much easier because of the
rules on participation to get a sport included:

"only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy five countries and
on four continents, and by women in at least forty countries and on three
continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad;"

http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf section 47.

Besides, beach volleyball is more interesting to watch

Stephen