Meeting with WL Secretary General Angelo Corradini
June 17, 2009
On January 24, 2009 (the day before Marcialonga) IAWLS president Hannes Larsson and president-elect Jacek Jaskowiak met Angelo Corradini in his office in Cavalese. There was nobody else in the surroundings, so Jacek took the picture of Angelo and Hannes. The picture of Jacek and Hannes was taken 6 weeks later at the Bieg Piastów reception (courtesy Stanislaw Grabowski).
We discussed questions of common interest. First we reported about some on-going developments of IAWLS:
- Race evaluation form available for skiers on our website (already made).
- Table of all XC ski races in the world. This is of interest to many skiers who prefer to stay in the same country after a WL race and ski some other races, or wish to find another race in the surroundings in case a WL race is cancelled; furthermore there are a number of attractive races before the beginning and after the end of the WL season.
- On-line voting system for our general assemblies.
- Forum for sharing travels and accommodation.
Angelo found these features interesting. He also said that he had appreciated the stories that we published during the endless summer season on outstanding WL skiers and their adventures.
Angelo with the help of his sons has pursued the development of the WL database. It contains now 220’000 names and 1’000’000 results!This is a gigantic task. To distinguish skiers with the same name, it is not sufficient to add the birth date! WL is now approaching the 3000th Master. A record number of new Masters was reached during this season (more work for Carla!).
In recent years the Russian Ski Federation has proposed three different races as new candidates to WL. Now it seems that a new star is born (Rybinsk!!!). This is probably the best XC place in Russia. Slovakia wants to enter WL but they have financial problems. We should probably wait for some more years.
Angelo expected that this year the number of 100’000 skiers in WL races will be reached for the first time. Concerning the new race Bieg Piastów Angelo hoped that skiers who participate will come back home happy; that would be the best promotion. (At the moment of writing this report we can state that the race was quite successful and we have heard only positive comments).
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