It is more "media friendly". That is what counts, nothing more nothing less.

Robert

iPilot wrote:
Please, give a bit reasoning. For me, it seems that parachuting events involve mostly some
jundgement by the judges to get scored and thus are not directly measurable in minutes, seconds,
kilometers or whatever units available.



"Robert Danewid" wrote in message
...

I am a gliding fanatic, but I think that the most suitable air sport for
the Olympic Games is parachuting.

Robert

iPilot wrote:

It's been under discussion for several times, but I want to bring it up again.

There have been several pro's and con's towards soaring in Olympics, but nobody argues that it'd
rise the popularity of the sport. So it is important for soaring community. Therefore my

question is

following:

Wich way is soaring worse than sailing?

None of the cities that have organised Olympic games in the past would have any geographic

troubles

on organising soaring competitions (Moscow had troubles with organising sailing competition

which

had to be held in Tallinn - 900 km away).
None of the latest summer games that I remember have had such miserable weather that the

competition

would have to be left unheld.

The main argument against soaring is the fact that equipment can make a difference here. Well.

Here

is the challenge for igc. They have to face that their first trial of monoclass failed and they

have

to try again. This time with relatively high-performing, yet still not expencive standard or 15m
class design.

As a matter of fact I don't believe that sailing deserves to have 9 different classes on

Olympics

and soaring none. I personally think that FAI has failed bigtime to find the concensus amongst

all

air sports to get air sports represented on Olympic games. It shall be the biggest argument

towards

Olympic Commety - there's no air sports in Olympics nowadays. And the most suitable sport would

be

soaring because it's competitive, not so dependent on equipment and directly measurable. Making
soaring TV-friendly shall not be a problem as well today. And with racing tasks only allowed on
olympics it shall be understandable for general public as well.

How can we do it?

Regards,
Kaido