I was reading the Sao Paulo Declaration at
http://www.wamo.info
and the FINA response also linked to on that site.
What exactly is the justification for FINA GR 4, which prohibits participation by individuals and/or organizations in non-FINA-affliated organizations or events? The rule seems unreasonably broad in not limiting in any way what organizations one can not be affiliated with!
On the idealistic side, I find it somewhat offensive to have my rights of association so limited by a body like FINA. On the pragmatic side, FINA seems to have stacked the cards so much in its favor that it is hard to imagine fighting it.
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Former Member
It’s not only the power behind GR 4 that’s too much… it’s also how and when they use it.
The ALL AMERICAS LATyCAR Championship held in Brazil was sanctioned by the appropriate organizations in 2003:
FAP - www.latycar.org/.../aval_fap.jpg
ABMN - www.latycar.org/.../aval_abmn.jpg
APMN - www.latycar.org/.../aval_apmn.jpg
I wonder why ASUA/UANA waited until September 2005 (2 years after the sanctions were signed, after more than a year of promotion, and one day after the entry deadline when most of us had already paid our registration fee, our plane tickets and our lodging) to issue their suspension threat based on the ALLEGATION that the meet was not sanctioned…
Were they REALLY not aware that everything was perfectly in order and that the proper sanctions had been signed and made public 2 years earlier, or were they just waiting for the perfect time to create panic among the 700+ registered athletes?
FINA definitely DOES NOT ROCK!
It’s not only the power behind GR 4 that’s too much… it’s also how and when they use it.
The ALL AMERICAS LATyCAR Championship held in Brazil was sanctioned by the appropriate organizations in 2003:
FAP - www.latycar.org/.../aval_fap.jpg
ABMN - www.latycar.org/.../aval_abmn.jpg
APMN - www.latycar.org/.../aval_apmn.jpg
I wonder why ASUA/UANA waited until September 2005 (2 years after the sanctions were signed, after more than a year of promotion, and one day after the entry deadline when most of us had already paid our registration fee, our plane tickets and our lodging) to issue their suspension threat based on the ALLEGATION that the meet was not sanctioned…
Were they REALLY not aware that everything was perfectly in order and that the proper sanctions had been signed and made public 2 years earlier, or were they just waiting for the perfect time to create panic among the 700+ registered athletes?
FINA definitely DOES NOT ROCK!
