On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 3:11:54 PM UTC-6, wrote:
(snip) Its apparent he prefers short and fast tasks. (snip) A decision needs to be made whether competition soaring is meant to be a test of "sprinting" ability or a test of "marathon" ability. Hopefully it will be somewhere in between, but lets not jettison the "marathon" aspects (both mentally and physically) of competative soaring.

Well, he mentions 500-600 km as his estimate for the upper limit. I wouldn't call that 'a short' or 'sprint' task. They are still a diamond worth...