Jonathan Potts, the President of the World Flying Disc Federation, was at the SportAccord (former GAISF) convention this past week and brought back some news about the World Beach Games.
This event will be run along similar lines to the upcoming World Combat Games in Beijing. At World Combat Games all flights, accommodation and meals for athletes are paid for by the games. If they can manage the same sort of deal for World Beach Games it will be a world first for ultimate!
You can also bet that there will be significant broadcast opportunities, so if Beach Ultimate we were to be included, we would probably use the World Beach Ultimate Championships 2011, which are to be held in Italy, as a qualifying event.
SportAccord is tentatively aiming at late 2012/early 2013 for the inaugural event, and already have had informal interest from a number of cities. They plan to have a host in place as soon as possible, maybe by the end of this year.
Unfortunately, SportAccord didn’t have the information it required to evaluate Beach Ultimate and it hasn’t been included in the list of initial sports for the first World Beach Games.
However, Jonathan had very positive discussions with SportAccord staff and thinks if we put together a strong proposal for Beach Ultimate’s inclusion we will have a good chance.
So that is what we will be working on this week 🙂
This is great news for Beach Ultimate!
This would be awesome!
This really would be something! Happy preparing of the proposal, I am sure that our sports fits perfectly into this event.