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- Feb 21, 2006
What will it take to host a Sr B international competition in North America?
After Thornhill was cancelled recently as the lone Sr B international to grace North America in years...that got us to wondering. What will it take to get a Sr B in North America, or at the very least, out of Europe? The elite European skaters have a definite advantage, hopping from one Sr B to another in the later summer/early autumn, racking up ISU points, while the North American elite skaters are at a definited disadvantage, and to some extent, the elite skaters from Asia (although their NGBs do submit a few entries) have a similar disadvantage. Why doesn't the ISU distribute the Sr B events like they do the SGP events...one or two in Europe, one or two in North America, one or two in Asia? Is the ISU so unforgiving and so Euro-centric that they can't see that it would help the popularity of the sport to spread out the Sr B events across western and eastern hemispheres? Is there any serious drawback to spreading these events out?
After Thornhill was cancelled recently as the lone Sr B international to grace North America in years...that got us to wondering. What will it take to get a Sr B in North America, or at the very least, out of Europe? The elite European skaters have a definite advantage, hopping from one Sr B to another in the later summer/early autumn, racking up ISU points, while the North American elite skaters are at a definited disadvantage, and to some extent, the elite skaters from Asia (although their NGBs do submit a few entries) have a similar disadvantage. Why doesn't the ISU distribute the Sr B events like they do the SGP events...one or two in Europe, one or two in North America, one or two in Asia? Is the ISU so unforgiving and so Euro-centric that they can't see that it would help the popularity of the sport to spread out the Sr B events across western and eastern hemispheres? Is there any serious drawback to spreading these events out?