I have contacted Brent Waldo
- who is the alpine ski rep on the committee for the games. He will be checking
into the criteria for the number of reps allowed per zone (and adding to that
number if other zones come up short) and the age criteria. He committed to
providing an answer by Sept 5, 2008. I should note that this was a point of
contention at the last winter games as there were opinions raised that the zone
fulfillment was so unbalanced that there was a desire to backfill from other
zones to gather a full complement of racers (and related, experienced parents)
for this event. At that time it was attempted to correct this at the last
qualifying race, but the response was that it was too late to change the
criteria at that stage and if this was to be done it should have been done years
earlier in the process. Engaging Brent to discuss this with the committee is an
attempt to correct this at the proper time.
In the meantime, Sask Alpine
will be responsible for establishing the qualifying criteria - both designated
races and selection method, restrictions of applicants, and the calculation to
derive the selections. This point will be put on the Sask Alpine executive
agenda to be addressed before the next season begins.
As a side note, Brent has asked the Regina
Alpine Race Team club to be the point club on this event at the games. What that
means in terms of race organizing committee roles and all the other roles
associated with the games, I don't know. This will need to be sorted out this
season as well.
Terry
Hooper