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From: "DEREK ROBINS" <D.J.Robins@admin.warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, UK
To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:06:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Sports Council (Non) Recognition
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Britdiscers,
Before reading further you may wish to remove from your desk all
objects which you might feel like throwing if you were angry.
There follows the text of a letter which the Sports Council sent to
Sam Neilson some 16 months after the application for recognition was
made.
6th May
Recognition By The Sports Council
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As you are aware from correspondence with my colleague Phil Collier
(who now works for the English Sports Council) a decision regarding
your application for formal recognition, by the Sports Councils, of the
activity of flying disc sports was delayed due to the restructuring of
the Sports Council.
Your application has now been given full consideration by the UK Officers'
Steering Group on Recognition, by the Chief Officers Group of the home
countries (and UK) Sports Councils and by the United Kingdom Sports Council
(UKSC).
I regret to inform you that the decision of the Sports Councils was that
flying disc sports should not be formally recognised by the Sports Councils,
primarily on the grounds of lack of uniqueness of the activity. The
decision was endorsed at a meeting of the UKSC on 24th March 1997.
I recognise that you may be disappointed by the decision but should
explain that the Sports Councils in the United Kingdom do not decide
what is and what is not a sport. Rather the Sports Councils identify,
through the formal recognition process, a range of activities which the
Councils wish to be associated with and which they believe should be
developed. The assessment criteria sent to you previously form a basis
for such decisions.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin Moore
Senior Manager
Governing Body Support
Performance Development Directorate
<end quote>
So there you have it - a complete load of bo***cks and an utter disgrace.
How on earth anyone can say that flying disc sports are not unique enough
I cannot comprehend.
Relying on reason and fairness has failed and we need to look at methods
of lobbying. Writing to MP's, Sports Minister, Sports Councils is an
obvious starting point. We could be more creative eg find out who really
makes the decisions and indoctrinate their sons/daughters in the ways of
the disc!!
Let the ideas and letters flow!
Del
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