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Posted by: Alexander Bauer (
) at 2008-07-01 16:38:15
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hi,
it is not so simple as you thought, philippe!
already in 1996 the costs for germany/essen (=near dusseldorf) were more than 1.000.000 deutschmark (today around 550.000 euro). today it might be 800.000 to 1.000.000 euro. you forgot a lot of important things like employees, charges for the indoor hall, gala-dinner, additionel costs for vips, marketing products, etc. etc.
holland's njbb abandoned not because of the total costs but because of a leak of 170.000 euros they finally could not disburse. of course - a lot of money could be regained afterwards - but so far the initial costs were simply too high - as it is, in my opinion, for everyone here in europe except france.
the federation of senegal received a sum of 750.000 euro from their 'one-and-only' president (a quite low budget competition without a petanque indoor-hall as i heared). and, of course the main standard costs are higher in europe than in africa. furthermore we could begin to talk about the human rights in senegal and where all this money comes from..... but this is another story.
i also was once a fan of international petanque without any restriction - but after i watched a match india vs. lithuania in pattaya, i changed my mind completely. please do not take it amiss - and sorry for the players of india and lithuania who of course tried their best and were only the most remarkable ambassadors of these kind of petanque-killing selection teams i saw there, but this special game - as one of many examples on that day in thailand, was a real torture and a ridicule for everyone that loves this game and supports our sport. not possible to show that to the media, and destructive for petanque as a sport on a world championship. i was absolutely sure these people haven't played petanque more than 3 or 5 times in their life, they had no clue about technique, tactics and even the most simple rules like not to play with chinese fun balls at a world championship.
So far we need a minimum of a "soft qualification".
as we maybe will have a biannual continental championships in africa, asia and europe, we therefore are able to use them as instruments of qualification.
cheers,
alexander
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World Championships Philippe B 2008-06-21 12:16:37
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World Championships Philippe B 2008-06-29 12:00:53
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