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ENDURANCE
Report on the Endurance Committee Meeting
Jerez de la Frontera (ESP), 29 April 2002
The FEI Endurance Committee held its annual meeting in Jerez de la
Frontera (ESP) following the
World Equestrian Games Trial ride and Open Forum for Endurance. The
Committee said goodbye to
two of its members Carol Bunting (GBR) and Prof. Jerry Gillespie (USA) and
welcomed Dr Dane Frazier
(USA) and Ramon Lopez Lax (ESP) who replaced them.
The major items on the agenda were the review of the star system for
Endurance Rides, distances for
Championships, items from the previous day's forum, developing the role of
the technical delegate and
the creation of a specialised list of Endurance Stewards. In addition, a
work plan was established for the
revision of the Endurance rules, which will become effective as of 1st
January 2004.
The proposals regarding the star system include the removal of minimum and
maximum speed limits
and a change to the wording of four-star rides to ensure Senior
Championships are organised as 160
km or 2 x 100 km whilst allowing for World Cup finals and other series to
be run at shorter distances.
These proposals will be sent to NFs and will be published in the next FEI
Bulletin.
The issues arising from the Open Forum were discussed and it had become
obvious that
communication needed to be improved. The Committee agreed that their
responsibility was for the sport
at a global level and that other geographical areas had to be taken into
consideration when establishing
the rules and managing the discipline.
The role of the technical delegate was discussed and special courses for
this function will be
established during the year. The position of Stewarding was also a matter
of concern, as NFs did not
seem to treat this seriously for Endurance.
Finally the procedure for the rules revision was established and the
Committee proposals will be
circulated to NFs for comment in the late summer.
Report on the Open Forum for Riders & Chefs d'Equipe
Jerez de la Frontera (ESP), 28 April 2002
A very successful Open Forum on the future of Endurance was held on the
occasion of the trial
Endurance ride for the 2002 WEG. Over 70 persons representing all the
leading Endurance nations
attended as well as several from countries who are currently developing
the discipline.
The basis for the forum was the so-called "Toulouse Document". This was a
motion put to the FEI by a
group of European Chefs d'Equipe calling for a number of actions to be
taken by the FEI. The principal
issues were the distance of Championship events and the number of vet
gates in 160 km ride.
The FEI Endurance Committee confirmed that it had no intention of
shortening Championship rides,
however they wished to have the flexibility to hold Championships in hot
and humid conditions where it
was impossible to have 160 km events. Many participants suggested that
this was the "back door" to
shorter distances. The Committee agreed to write to all NFs confirming
that major championships in
normal conditions would be 160 km.
There was disagreement over the number of vet gates. The French Chef
d'Equipe Pierre Cazes,
supported by the Belgian Chef d'Equipe Pierre Arnould, spoke strongly in
favour of a reduced number of
vet gates, whereas the US representatives including Valerie Kanavy, double
World Champion, were
strongly of the opposite opinion. The Endurance Committee agreed to look
closely at the statistics at
their meeting the following day.
Other issues to be addressed were the use of heart rate monitors,
schedules for events as well as the
timing of rule changes.
The conclusion the forum came to was that communication between NFs and
their Endurance
organisations was not as good as it should be and the Endurance Committee
agreed to discuss this with
the NFs and develop a method of direct communication without bypassing the
NFs.
The full report of the Forum is available from the FEI Endurance Department.
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