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iPilot wrote:
Your fist point is achievable and in theis regard soaring can compete (I don't say it currently does) with many other sports. At least I do not know anyone who wants to watch 8days of constant swimming. Your second point is good information, but in order to succeed soaring needs to have a successful monoclass before and PW-5 just isn't that. We have to get our own things ok before we jump to the IWGA. Otherwise we're just another wannabies. Why a single class? To say its needed for the Olympics implies, to me, that there is something wrong or unfair with current FAI classes. Any racing is expensive, so I don't buy that as a valid argument. Lots of people race Standard and 15 m class all over the world, the FAI has experience with it, and one class racing doesn't occur naturally in the international soaring world (WC is contrived, and 1-26 is US only). If gliders are to be raced in the Olympics, our best bet is to propose a class that's already established, with gliders already racing. Shawn |
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