Minutes of Athletes’ Commission - SkiO meeting

DATE 1th December 2015

PLACE Saga Hotel, Ylläs, Finland

PRESENT Christian Spoerry (CR) SUI, note taker of minutes

Daisy Kudre (DK) EST,

Erik Blomgren (EB) SWE,

ABSENT Olga Novikova (ON) KAZ

Klaus Csucs (KC) ROU

Tatiana Rvacheva (TR) RUS

1.  Opening

CS welcomes all present one to the meeting. The main purposed of this meeting is to introduce the new members to Athletes Commission (AC) work.

2.  New AC Members

Hans-Jörgen Kvåle has left the AC due to his new position as IOF marketing coordinator. Both Staffan Tunis and Allison Crocker have retired from the AC. Therefore both DK and EB were recruited as new members of the AC. KC and TR will not be present at AC meeting this season but will contribute via mail. We plan to invite Andrey Lamov as a stand-in for TR to the AC meetings during this season. The coordinator position in the AC is currently vacant.

3.  Event Development

  1. Event evaluation

We plan to continue with online evaluation forms for all WCup rounds. DK suggests shortening the questionnaires a bit in the hope that more people will reply. EB will prepare the questionnaires and may contact Hans-Jörgen Kvåle for help/input. The link to the online event evaluation should be sent out via mail to all ski-o contacts and be posted in the AC Facebook group “Ski-O World” within a week. We hope to receive constructive criticism that helps the organizers and future organizers to improve the event quality and contribute to the development of ski-orienteering.

  1. Feedback World Cup Round 1

The World Cup Round 1 was discussed and following points were raised:

(However this feedback should be complemented with the summery of the online evaluation form.)

·  Improved atmosphere and better visibility of the event compared to two years ago.

·  LiveCenter is an improvement, but stadion production could be improved a lot (more enthusiastic speaker and music)

·  Focus on summery/after-production in LiveCenter, links for replay (= IOF studio) were difficult to find.

·  Courses were in general interesting/challenging. Womens long distance was to short, forking was to similar and there were no longer legs of rout choice character.

·  In the Sprint-relay not all possible forkings were used. Change over area should be longer. Otherwise nice competition.

·  K-point at middle was at time start and not clearly marked for all athletes.

·  Mass-start area could be improved; one narrow track for all competitors is not ok.

·  Finish area could be improved with longer sprint corridors for mass-start competitions.

·  Team leaders meeting were well prepared.

·  IOF adviser should have control over the competition and courses.

·  Maps were really good and easy readable

4.  Rules

  1. Among other rule changes the athletes were informed during the open meeting that from now on time penalties are possible ( for example in case of early start). The AC however does not understand if the organizer, the IOF adviser or the jury can give penalties without a previous complain from a team. We do not think that it should be the athletes and team leaders’ task to actively identify rule violations (mainly during quarantine, start, finish). We would like to see a more active role of organizer/IOF advisers in identifying rule violations and sanctioning them.

5.  Next AC meeting

  1. In Klingenthal or Oberwisenthal, 24 or 25 January 2016 in the afternoon. More details to be announced later to AC members.
  2. Ask Hans-Jörgen Kvåle for topics to discuss during next meeting (from Ski-O commission).