La supponenza delle istituzioni (WADA e IAAF)
Inviato: 15/06/2012, 8:37
Per la serie “noi decidiamo cosa e come”…..
Di seguito alcuni passaggi del messaggio del presidente della WMRA (Worls Mountain running Association), l’italiano Bruno Gozzellino, nella Newsletter annuale 2012 con tanto di messaggio a seguire del presidente della IAAF, Lamine Diack.
… Mountain Running is now well established as a worldwide sport and branch of traditional athletics and it is continually growing in popularity among athletes all around the world…..
However, “mountain running is mountain running” and it should not be confused with trail running, sky running…..
It is important to distinguish mountain running from these other activities.
Trail is an attractive and important movement that will probably become more popular in the future around the world but it is running or walking by persons of all the ages on track of different distances and surfaces (path, grass, sand, rocks, and so on), but trail running is not mountain running!
Sky running is an interesting commercial activity where participants can win large amounts of money. Some competitors are ex-international mountain runners who, at the end of their international athletic mountain running career, start in this event with the intention of winning money. The people that normally practice sky running are usually older runners with the exception of a few younger top runners who have not come from traditional mountain running. Sky running attracts media coverage due to the fact that participants walk or run on the top of the mountains at high altitude and sometimes competing in close to extreme conditions, but sky running is not mountain running!
Also, I believe that athletes can help this situation by choosing mountain running and not being present in events that are not athletics, not mountain running!
Mountain Running has clear characteristics: it is, first of all, running in the mountain on clear, fixed and marked tracks with parameters that are very clear. It is not about survival, not an extreme activity; mountain runners don’t need special support or equipment, runners cannot drink or have assistance along the full track but only under clearly defined conditions; mountain running is not a dangerous sport; the distance of the races are fixed; the track race is clearly signed and marked and the athletes do not choose their own route on the track.
This is mountain running, an official part of athletics!
What then is the future of mountain running and the WMRA? One possibility is that the discipline of mountain running could eventually become fully integrated into the body of the IAAF and an IAAF Mountain Running Committee would be created. The WMRA Council would of course be fully supportive of this course of action and would cease to exist from this point onwards.
However, until the timing is right for these circumstances the WMRA will continue to carry on as normal counting on the full backing of the IAAF, Area Continental Athletic Associations and each National Athletic Federations. The WMRA expresses its gratitude to the IAAF and its associated bodies for this support.
Il testo integrale della Newsletter: http://www.wmra.ch/files/about_us/newsl ... letter.pdf
Di seguito alcuni passaggi del messaggio del presidente della WMRA (Worls Mountain running Association), l’italiano Bruno Gozzellino, nella Newsletter annuale 2012 con tanto di messaggio a seguire del presidente della IAAF, Lamine Diack.
… Mountain Running is now well established as a worldwide sport and branch of traditional athletics and it is continually growing in popularity among athletes all around the world…..
However, “mountain running is mountain running” and it should not be confused with trail running, sky running…..
It is important to distinguish mountain running from these other activities.
Trail is an attractive and important movement that will probably become more popular in the future around the world but it is running or walking by persons of all the ages on track of different distances and surfaces (path, grass, sand, rocks, and so on), but trail running is not mountain running!
Sky running is an interesting commercial activity where participants can win large amounts of money. Some competitors are ex-international mountain runners who, at the end of their international athletic mountain running career, start in this event with the intention of winning money. The people that normally practice sky running are usually older runners with the exception of a few younger top runners who have not come from traditional mountain running. Sky running attracts media coverage due to the fact that participants walk or run on the top of the mountains at high altitude and sometimes competing in close to extreme conditions, but sky running is not mountain running!
Also, I believe that athletes can help this situation by choosing mountain running and not being present in events that are not athletics, not mountain running!
Mountain Running has clear characteristics: it is, first of all, running in the mountain on clear, fixed and marked tracks with parameters that are very clear. It is not about survival, not an extreme activity; mountain runners don’t need special support or equipment, runners cannot drink or have assistance along the full track but only under clearly defined conditions; mountain running is not a dangerous sport; the distance of the races are fixed; the track race is clearly signed and marked and the athletes do not choose their own route on the track.
This is mountain running, an official part of athletics!
What then is the future of mountain running and the WMRA? One possibility is that the discipline of mountain running could eventually become fully integrated into the body of the IAAF and an IAAF Mountain Running Committee would be created. The WMRA Council would of course be fully supportive of this course of action and would cease to exist from this point onwards.
However, until the timing is right for these circumstances the WMRA will continue to carry on as normal counting on the full backing of the IAAF, Area Continental Athletic Associations and each National Athletic Federations. The WMRA expresses its gratitude to the IAAF and its associated bodies for this support.
Il testo integrale della Newsletter: http://www.wmra.ch/files/about_us/newsl ... letter.pdf