On example of the current olympians. Athlethic ain't it :-)
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"Mark James Boyd" wrote in message news:412259a4$1@darkstar...
Olympics are athletic. Soaring has avoided (for the most part) having
medals or awards for endurance (long hours = crash).

I dunno, the sailing olympians all look like they're in great shape.
Pretty physical, that sport. And bosled even. I dunno if
soaring really meets the hardbody "Olympic" concept.

But hey, I guess there's no harm trying...I suppose an Olympic
"cluster ballooning" event would be nice too...

In article , 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




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Mark Boyd
Avenal, California, USA