Comments on: WOC in the future: WOC Week ideas discussed at IOF Joint Meeting

By: EoinR

EoinR — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:22:50 +0000

Good opportunities here. The Sprint Qualification should be the first to go. Running a straight final would allow more runners to compete and get the event completed in a shorter time – in 2010 the Sprint took 7 hours to complete from first qualifying start to last finalist finish.

By: Jukka

Jukka — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:33:02 +0000

Classic terrain WOC every even year with Middle, Long and Relay (with qualification races or not). If not qualification then maybe also Mass start > Long.

City WOC every odd year with Sprint relay, Sprint Q+F, Sprint relay mixed, … – olympic games format

By: Samo

Samo — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:30:13 +0000

It is nice discussion but it seems that we (general public and spectators) can’t influence on the work of WIF group. We are not organized in the right way as we act as one by one so we don’t have any influence on the decisions taken by WIF. As usually for this kind of project it is strategically wise not to discuss with general public in all aspects. I agreed that project is running very well and that in general most of ideas are not bad, rather good.

As I think more about small federation needs to keep the sport alive than needs of Media, TV and big nations I would like to see what we can really contribute and in which way to get the official response from WIF group about all suggestions, concerns we could bring together?

So, can we organize ourselves (like in other sports – football,…) in this way? One person who will represent us.

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:40:55 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info – very nice to have some first-hand information from somebody who was part of the discussions.