Olympic Aspirants: Presenting in Lausanne

Hi everyone!

The IOC nominated the last seven sports of which they have to choose two of them next autumn for the Olympic Games 2016.
The presentation of the seven sports took place on the 14.11.2008.

More detailed information of the Olympic advertising you can find below.


Olympic Aspirants: Presenting in Lausanne

20 Nov 2008 17:04

On 14 November seven sports made their case in Lausanne, Switzerland, seeking inclusion in the Olympics, competing for two spots on the program for the 2016 Summer Games.

Baseball, golf, karate, rugby, softball, roller sports and squash made hour-long, closed-door presentations to the International Olympic Committee's Program Commission.

The 16-member commission will deliver an influential report to the IOC's top decision-making body before a vote on the 2016 schedule to be held next year in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The seven sports were rejected for the 2012 London Games program in voting by more than 100 IOC members three years ago. Baseball and softball were dropped, while the other five failed to gather enough support to join the existing 26 core sports on the Olympic program. IOC Sports Director Christophe Dubi said the sports had passed an important milestone.'It is the first time they meet and have the possibility to sell their proposition to the members,' he said.

The Program Commission, including eight IOC members and eight administrators from other sports (IWGA President Ron Froehlich is one of them), asked the candidates to demonstrate they could appeal to a global audience and young people, would bring their best athletes to the games and could comply with World Anti-Doping Agency standards.

Rugby fell from the Olympic program in 1924 and seeks to come back with the seven-a-side version for men and women, rather than the more established 15-a-side competition.

International Rugby Board Chief Executive Mike Miller said that rugby sevens was a proven success at The World Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and was being added to the Pan-American and African Games schedules. 'It is a format that works incredibly well over two or three days with packed houses,' he said.

World Karate Federation President Antonio Espinos said the sport had 180 national federations and promoted values of fairness and discipline. 'We want to have increased resources to spread the social and educational values of karate,' Espinos said. He said he answered IOC concerns about how contestants could protest the judging of bouts across 10 classes, five each for men and women.

The International Federation for Roller Sports proposed to stage 10 races, five each for men and women from sprints to marathons raced on road or track. Roberto Marotta, the IFRS Secretary General, said the sport was young and dynamic and would bring 100 athletes to compete over three days. 'You can see millions of people skating all around the world,' Marotta said. 'They should like to see their sport in the Olympics.'

The World Squash Federation proposed to stage 32-player singles tournaments for men and women played in mobile glass courts at television-friendly places.

'When you put a glass court in an iconic location it always has this appeal,' WSF president Naresh Ramachandran said.

The WSF delegation was introduced by IOC member Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia, who led a previous bid for Olympic status in 1989.

The Program Commission will meet in May 2009 before presenting its report to the IOC Executive Board.

The board meets in Lausanne in June to hear each sport's second presentation and decide whether to cut some from the list offered to the full IOC membership. A simple majority is needed for a sport to be voted onto the program.


Have a nice day,

Giny

Speedskating goes olympic?

Huhu,

the 14th of November was a very important day for us. On this day the FIRS (Federation International de Roller Sports) had the opportunity to present the vast opportunities and different ways of inline speedskaing to the sport-programme commission of the Olympic committee.

If the presentation is successful enough, speedskating could be an olympic discipline in 2012 or 2016.

A part of the presentation was the official video, which was published on rollersports tv.

I think it is well worth seeing.

By the way...Are Olympics worth it?

EM 2009

Hi guy,

some news:

TO ALL EUROPEAN ROLLER SPORTS FEDERATIONS AFFILIATED TO CERS TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Dear Sirs,
we have pleasure in communicating you that the 2009 European Roller Speed Skating Championships are scheduled in Ostende ( Belgium) from July 29 to August 8.

Those championships are for cadet, junior and senior categories- all together- as proposed by the Fédération Belge de Roller Skating to celebrate its own 100th anniversary and agreed by European Delegates, on the occasion of the 2008 CEC Assembly in Gera (Germany).

With our best sports regards,
Raoul Trumpy Umberto Urbinati
CEC Secretary General CEC President

Have a nice day.

Bye,
Giny

I found something new - Skating with Wouter Hebbrecht

Hi everyone!

I found something, which one or other of you could help.
Wouter Hebbrecht published a few skate techniques in his blog, which he presents in some photos, too.

The first theme is about the knee bend you should be skating with.

The second theme is about how to swing your arms and keeping your shoulders in the correct position doing so.

You should take a look on it.

Bye,
Janin

Voting for the best German speedskaters 2008

Hi,

the best German speedskaters are up for vote on sportsman, sportswoman and best teams of the speedskating season 2008 in the Skate In Magazine.

closing date: 31.01.2009

Vote here!

Video of the crashes WM in Spain

Juhu,

here is a video of "some" crashes from the World Champs in Spain 2008.
I found it on the English Bont Forum.

Download here! or Download here!!!

You should download the video from rapidshare (second link), which was a bit easier for me, because the first link isn´t always working.

So enjoy watching...

Giny