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World Games 2009 - surprises in the startlist

Posted on hétfő, 20 júl. 2009, 18:08 by rooftop
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This weekend the World Games Dancesport events will be hosted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The World Games, being hosted every 4 year is a sports event organized in a very similar fashion to the Olympic Games - however it hosts those sports which are not programme events for the main Olympic Games.
The rules that apply here follow very much the same dictated by the Olympic Charta, and the participation for Dancesport is on a one couple per country basis.

A brief glance at the startlist will give plenty of food for discussion, and most of the discussion for sure will be around the Standard event.
Amongst those on the startlist are Paolo Bosco and Silvia Pitton, who are of course professionals - their inclusion in a field that is predominantly amateur surely will be discussed at length.
Another discussion point are two couples of mixed nationality: Salvatore Todaro have been representing Bulgaria, Benedetto Ferruggia have been representing Germany for quite a few years now, yet both are Italian born. The olympic charta requires that only teams whose members are of the same nationality can be represented. This may imply that both Salvatore and Benedetto are now not only representing Bulgarian and Germany, but have also got their citizenship for these countries.

If you want to watch these events live on the Internet, the organizers have kindly provided us with a link where these events will be broadcast: http://hichannel.hinet.net/2009wg/live.html

The schedule of the Standard and Latin events is shown below (London time, for New York timezone, substract 5 hours. For most of Europe, add 1 hour.)

Friday 24th
8:55   Standard 1st round
9:50   Standard 2nd round
12:00 Standard Semi-Final
12:45 Standard Final

Saturday 25th
8:50   Latin 1st Round
9:40   Latin 2nd Round
11:45 Latin Semi-Final
12:35 Latin Final


Share your opinion, thoughts and predictions with us and each other by making a comment below.

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rooftop szerda, 05 aug. 2009, 16:44

P. Bosco had no place and business dancing amongst  Amateurs.  String STD field, much weaker latin,  overall an interesting event.
go_idsf_go szombat, 25 júl. 2009, 20:25

Wonderful event! Go on IDSF
carlos.z szombat, 25 júl. 2009, 14:13

surprise in the startlist  ends with no surprise in final end results
bulldog szombat, 25 júl. 2009, 14:04

Taiwan - Kaohsiung Friday dancesport Standard , SHOCKING   result   ?

I think not.  Another  reason why  it is unfair for Professionals who earn living from dance  to compete against Amateurs,  not even against the Amateurs who are forced to subsidise the enormous cost of  learning dance at the highest level by  teaching  dance whether or not  on a part time /full time bases.

While  victory is a victory ,  will Paulo consider this an achievement ?

The top teacher from the "franchise" Team Devil beating his, and  his professional  colleague's students. 

Oh, well.  At least there was little  reason for  urine sampling and testing  for elicit drugs - eventhough ,  can you take the expected results for granted  ?  
jiji22 péntek, 24 júl. 2009, 07:00

IDSF does not make the rules for the World Games. IOC makes them. Athletes have to have the nationality of the country represented....

Why should you represent a country with partners coming from different countries? What's the goal of representing a country while you are not from this country? From my opinion, in IDSF and WDC competitions, couples should represent a team or a club, not a country. Or to keep the rule that both partners have to have the nationality of the country like for other sports.

This is like football, basketball which are so well known for everybody around the world.

In the Olympic Games, all athletes are quite professional !!!! From my opinion, there is no difference between amateurs and professional in Olympic Games right now. This difference is impossible because you cannot reach this kind of level is you are not doing this the whole day and you need to pay for your lessons, trainers, material, travels, etc. How can you perform to that level making another job ?????? And how do you live day by day?

I am not professional, I am a pure amateur senior and we try to reach as high as we can having a job, a familly.... And I can tell you that there is no other way to reach the level the top couples are doing. And people who are thinking in another way are not correct with themselves. You need money to get to that level...
spectator100 csütörtök, 23 júl. 2009, 13:55

I predict that the iDSF will issue Press Relaeses and claim it was a massive success that it was watched by X million and the IOC were totally impressed.

Send out the garbage collectors.
onyourtoes kedd, 21 júl. 2009, 07:31

A total NON-EVENT.  So many competitors from outside the top 50. It is a poor advert for Dancesport.

Remember IDSF have a rule to set aside their rules whenever they choose.
bulldog kedd, 21 júl. 2009, 00:50

Here we go....if you cannot join them, copy them,  act like them,   invent and use names  like "The Main  Olympic Games",  " Dancesport Olympiad" ,  act as copy cats.  

 

But never mind.  Lets enjoy the performance, the artistry of our professionals competing against ( probably) their own students ( probably members of team Devil ). 

Go Amateurs go !     Will the judging be open - something so frown upon  ?  Will  judging inadequate/ absent standards  be made more fair using the skating system ?

Never mind.    In a short  4 years,  the World Games   2013 may be called something like Dancesport Olympics 2013,  if IOC allows IDSF to "borrow" the name,  or is there an optimist who still believes that inclusion of urine testing, and  different dance styles will persuade IOC to include and televise Hip Hop as the preferred dancesport, since anyone can do Hip-Hop, jumps and number of spins can be measured, and you do not be rich to learn, practice to Hip= Hop ?