Sessy
09-19-2008, 10:31 AM
Just got a mail from my figure skating club's secretary, containing press releases and the like about a rupture within the dutch skating association KNSB. Over here, speed skating is WAY hot and figure skating has always been the unloved child in the past decades, lots and lots of folk is complaining about lack of facilities for figure skaters and even worse, for ice dancers, and about the unfair treatment of our top figure skaters compared to top speed skaters. This summer tensions highened as a lot of figure skating activities for the upcoming year were cancelled because supposedly, they were too expensive.
So much so did the tensions rise, that now the figure skating clubs have decided to, as of next season (2009-2010), quit the skating association, and form a FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION independant of the KNSB! It will become a member of the ISU and NOC*NSF...
Whoohoo! We finally get an association of our own, concerned about no other ice than ice for us figure skaters!
(I'm kind of hoping this means that somewhere in the next decades, the ridiculous 6-month seasons will become at least 9-month seasons)
So much so did the tensions rise, that now the figure skating clubs have decided to, as of next season (2009-2010), quit the skating association, and form a FIGURE SKATING ASSOCIATION independant of the KNSB! It will become a member of the ISU and NOC*NSF...
Whoohoo! We finally get an association of our own, concerned about no other ice than ice for us figure skaters!
(I'm kind of hoping this means that somewhere in the next decades, the ridiculous 6-month seasons will become at least 9-month seasons)