Margalef, SPORTS ¿in the Olympiads of 2020 ? The International Olympic Committee recognizes permanently to the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), which opens to expectations inclusion of this discipline in a forthcoming Olympic Games. The hypothesis that the climbing competition comes to be included in a future program of the Olympic Games look a day closer to becoming reality. The reason is the recognition final of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting these days in its 122 th Session in Vancouver.
"From the moment of its founding in 2007, the IFSC began the long process to get Olympic recognition," said Lluis Giner, member of the Board of the European Council of the IFSC and the Events Committee. "Then we got the important recognition of the association of international federations AGFIS, and soon became temporary recognition from the IOC for two years," adds Giner.
This temporary recognition to the escalation sport by the Olympic governing body has now crystallized the final Reconco, according to the English leader opens big expectations for our first golden opportunity in 2013, when he decided the sport disciplines of the Games in 2020. "
Picture This IOC until 2013 The real possibilities of including the escalation in the 2020 Olympics go through strictly enforce all requirements of the Olympic charter and get the necessary support from members of the assembly IOC. "We think we can pass all the subjects of hard examination of the IOC," said Lluis Giner.
To achieve this, the Commission of Events IFSC vote on the body assembly to be held in Indonesia next week calendar with more competitions at the highest level "to find the splendor of sport climbing competitions."
The international calendar change will result in the conclusion of two world championships in consecutive years, while up to now had been held in alternate years. Thus, after the World Cup of Arc 2011, Global will be others in 2012, whose headquarters is still to be decided.
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Although the detail is not so much the number of World Championships, but the number of countries participating in each. Avilés 2007 brought together 53 participating countries, which are reduced to little more than forty in China 2009. The parameters of the IOC that the Olympic disciplines mark must collect at least 75 countries in the World Championships.
Letter from the President of the IFSC occasion of the recognition by the IOC to the International Federation of Sport Climbing, its chairman, Marco Maria Scolaris sent a public letter to the world community of climbers. Under the title Keep on climbing!, The leader federation account:
"Last December, we met with International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge in Lausanne. I honestly confess that, when we started 25 years ago, we could not imagine that this would be possible someday.
However, the lives of the climbers is strange: Sometimes you face a block, a road or a wall, in a competition or in the rock, and visualize a line, a sequence may seem very far from your reach . But then the mind begins to scream and motivation grows: we tried, the train, which climbed and we do! If you are a climber, you know what I mean.
The International Olympic Committee recognition was considered by many as a "mission impossible." But a group of people believed in it. Watching our children and young climbers, knew and felt we were destined to be part of the Olympic Family. We worked hard, we heard, we learned, we climbed and we have done.
And here we are: this is not the end of the story is the beginning! Join the Olympic Family, as well as dignity to our climbers players in a sport, we added the responsibility to move toward the spirit of Olympism, with its principles reaffirmed in Copenhagen, during the XIII Olympic Congress in October 2009.
The final recognition of the IOC, ratified by its 122 th Session in Vancouver on February 12 (three years after the founding of the IFSC in Frankfurt), gives us each and every one of us the duty to keep working: our sport and our athletes should be considered and recognized not only in Lausanne, but in our own countries, at all levels, from children to adults.
Scale (moving in the vertical dimension) is one of the basic movements of man. His motor skills are paramount and residents in all human beings, able to scale even before you walk. That is why it is so natural, and that appeals to children. We know that the rally has been and is used in a wide variety of activities and for different purposes, including climbing to the mountains, called mountaineering. We started with the Sports and surprisingly found the social value of sport climbing. It is a powerful educational tool for all, without boundaries: the rise to physically show it.
Getting there, climbing up to this point has been a major challenge even harder. The game is not over, it starts again: one line display, the sequence ... a passion lives here ... We want to climb higher, stronger, faster. We must be strong, we need to be prepared. Are you ready? "
Sources: IFSC and Vertical
