Over Turning The Decision
OVERTURNING THE ISAF DECISION - NOT EASY, BUT POSSIBLE
It is possible to overturn the ISAF decision, but it cannot be done just by a general petition. There is a specific Regulation that deals with overturning a decision on Olympic Events;
It is necessary to make filings to the ISAF Constitution Committee (ICC) claiming that the Council made errors or violated the ISAF Constitution/Regulations.
And, it is necessary to file with the IOC that it should reject some of the Events on the ISAF slate for 2012 - because they do not comply with the IOC Charter and IOC Programme Commission policies.
Filings to the ICC can be made by every individual sailor in every ISAF class… so, all of the sailors in the A-Class, F18, H16, Tornado, etc.
These have to be submitted to the classes, which then submit them to ISAF.
The ISAF Secretary General and the ICC then will then have to address each one… it could take all of their time for quite a while, and it will greatly raise the pressure on ISAF.
The IOC should be kept aware of the number of such filings. There is no precedent for a large scale filing, and it will likely cause the IOC to become concerned about the behaviour of ISAF.
I am traveling today, but I have read all of the Regulations (etc.) and I will post web pages by tomorrow where sailors can submit a specific complaints. I will work with Don Findlay (F18) and the A-Class. David Brookes has been in close contact, so he can mobilize the Hobie classes.
This is a somewhat technical/legalistic approach, but ISAF, the IOC, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport do not recognize casual complaints.
HEROES AND NON-HEROES - SURPRISE,
ISAF gave the Council members copies of the official Ballot Tally yesterday. Someone at the meeting photographed the Ballot Tally and it is now circulating.
Here are some of the HEROES - who voted in favor of the multihulls
GBR (split Chris Atkins, YES :: Fiona Barron & Philip Tolhurst NO) CAY, PUR, ESP, ARG, SWE, DEN, INDIA, UAE, CAN (split 1 YES, 1 NO), JAPAN, CHINA, RUS, AUT, GER, VENEZUELA, FRA, SINGAPORE, and AUS.
THE NOT HEROES include some real shocks:
NED - Henry van der Aat voted against multihulls
NEW ZEALAND - voted NO - likely to make the Worlds a bit tense
GREECE - voted NO - shocking - Greece has been very energized to host our 2008 Europeans
BRA - voted NO
USA - all 3 USA council members voted against multihulls. This will re-open the filings against US SAILING at the USOC.