It became a full medal sport at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games up to 2020 were IPC removed sailing from the paralympic program. World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The roll of honour is an impressive one, including multiple Olympic medallists, rules gurus and designers, and all have dedicated an outstanding amount of time to the sport of sailing. World Sailing's Election Committee overseeing the 2020 Election of World Sailing's Officers is pleased to release the Presidential Candidates' question and answers. Additionally, I have witnessed the work in the Executive Board, Council and Committee’s and all the different persons involved at all levels in international sailing, member nations (MNAs), international classes, and regional sailing federations. Soon after the new regulation 25 was initiated, the Board focused on starting the election of events and equipment for the Summer Olympic Games in Paris 2024. I worked my way through all the systems so I’m as prepared as I can be without being complacent.”, Metz has an impressive array of equipment in his navstation. The principal things he added were twin poles and a hydrogenerator. To help encourage high level international competition in the Classes used for the Olympic Games, World Sailing arrange the following events: Sailing as an equipment based sports allows one of the largest ranges of paralympians to compete under equal terms. Sailing in these paralympics was open to athletes with physical impairments. Find out more on all the World Sailing MNAs around the world by clicking on the map below. The rational was given as follows: "The creation of a single governing body for Member National Authorities (MNAs) and sailors will better serve the needs and interests of sailors with disabilities, and provide consistency within the sport, from relationships with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to technical support and operational efficiencies. The same connection exists today and was lately made clear by a witness statement to the Ethics Commission. The public focus has in my mind been very one-sided on all the different matters, and I strongly feel that there is a need to tell the ‘story’ by also focusing on the background and the political game different persons are playing within World Sailing. Fleet Racing – The commonest form of competitive sailing involving boats racing around a course. Any correction of error could have been handled more effectively if the reactions and subsequent responses by Gary and Scott had been more considered. They are sailing the World ARC by themselves. As the claim involved Executives and Board members, the council decided in May to give the Ethics Commission the possibility to use independent external investigation officers in order for the executive management and board not to be involved. These words will resonate with many. Since Paul Frew picked it at the Southampton Boat Show he has dreamt of sailing an Oyster round the world. The Council had already given the Ethics Commission the opportunity to elect an independent external EO, and the Ethics Commission should have done the same in this case. The first to cross the finish line wins. The new Board could have chosen not to use the resources or to develop a strategy project on their own, but they did not. A list of Suspended MNAs is available HERE. The value added activities were in fact ones needed by World Sailing. Tags: Dan Ibsen, Kim Andersen, World Sailing. The Disabled Sailing Committee then re-branded as the Para World Sailing Committee.[26]. It features the latest news and events from the sailing world together with features and info in an easy-to-use format. “I don’t want to be bored by electronics,” he says. They are just human errors which occur from time to time. The criticism after the election in 2016 started by disparaging the WS CEO Andy Hunt for more or less everything, without any consideration to the fact that he was hired by the previous Board after they failed in hiring a CEO for two years. "[24][25], The IFDS Foundation was dissolved during the 2015 Annual Conference in Sanya, China. The World ARC is a 25,000nm whistlestop tour of the globe, equivalent to cramming a lifetime of cruising into a year, and the organisers smooth … “You don’t take your car and go and do Le Mans straight away.” For his preparation, Metz spent six hours a day for a year. Almost any boat can be sailed though some are more suitable for larger ranges of disabilities or specific categories of impairment. “So you could say I was planning this for 25 years,” he declares. As a result, an International Conference of Yacht Measurement was held in Londo… But let us also have a look at the next case. They were clearly not able to “manage decisions any more” and having lost out on having the Finn Class in the Olympics (a class they are all part of) seemed to be too much for them. What spares did they carry? • Why did the Ethics chair ignore the wittness statement linking Gerardo Seeliger, Josep Pla (President of European Sailing Federation), and Ser Miang Ng (member of the World Sailing Ethics Commission) in the same meeting in Lausanne – planning the campaign for Gerardo Seeliger running against the sitting President? “But with three computers and three satphones, the genset still runs six hours a day!”, Julia Horner and Eric Faber aboard Luna Quest. WORLD SAILING CLUB has 7,462 members. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. You might question what responsible chair would not check if he has quorum or not for making decision within in regulations? “It’s not all about sailing experience, you must be able to get on with your crew.”, Frew says he wouldn’t have done anything differently. My background is that I have been involved in the work of IYRU/ISAF/World Sailing since the beginning of the 1980s on behalf of Danish Sailing Federation (until 2013), and during the years have experienced five international Presidents – Peter Tallberg, Paul Henderson, Goran Petterson, Carlo Croce, and Kim Andersen. There are four types of race officials used to conduct sailing events recognised by World Sailing as follows: World Sailing hold the following awards together with service medals. “Now we can pole out the genoa and gennaker and do up to 15 knots downwind – and comfortably go 15° each side of 180°.” As well as the Watt & Sea generator Metz also added six 100W solar panels which, when combined, supplies half the energy they need. As a side information, the chair is also member of the Constitution Committee and should know the regulations. The President is then criticized for not acting on a claim by a group, led by Luca Devoti, on the breach of EU anti-monopoly law. To ‘qualify’ to be part of this small group of sailors, it seems you need to be +70 to 86 years of age! “Despite asking for the letter not to be sent until after Gary had reviewed the SI video, he still did not immediately review the video and had not reviewed by the time the letter was sent on March 2. 2 talking about this. World ARC is a mix of cruising in company and free time to explore. In particular the interview by Mikkel Thommessen with Gary, which was recorded and played back over social media extended awareness of the complaint to the Ethics Commission by two board members against the President to a much wider audience.“. The Frews have owned a series of cruising yachts, from a 22ft monohull to a 52ft Catana catamaran, but Paul Frew insists these were just a “dress rehearsal” for his Oyster. Sailing is one of the few sports where disabled sailors compete on equal terms to able body sailors in a large section of the sport. While his tenure was challenging, he inherited a mess of an organization to begin with – from the previous Board. Find out more on all the World Sailing MNAs around the world by clicking on the map below. Jean and Christiane Metz are French nationals who live in the Swiss mountains. As … So much for ethics and transparency! All the complaints have been orchestrated by the same small group of people, and all the complaints have been primarily directed at the incumbent President Kim Andersen, and have been intended to discredit the President ahead of the 2020 election this fall for the President and Vice-Presidents. “When something goes wrong I get out another one and come back to fix the broken one another time.” Fair enough! The day before the November 2016 World Sailing election in Barcelona, then Presidential candidate Kim Andersen was approached with a strange Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from George Wossala for him and his proposed VP candidates to sign and in return Wossala would guarantee to get the votes from opposition candidate Paul Henderson.