I was waiting for some time now for somebody to bring up this topic as I'm sure that many of you are well avare of and now I decided to put it up myself.
Here what it is about. First you can go wisit the CMAS website (
http://www.cmas2000.org/index.asp ) and take a look at the bottom of the news with the date of 21st december with headings:
Attendance to non CMAS competitions and
Affiliation to non CMAS organisations
They also sent this in writing to most of the national associations, that are now banning clubs and individuals participatin in competitions not organized by CMAS.
I have to tell you its not a small problem. You can read some more in this article:
http://www.h2oteam.com/index.php?menu_item=aostali
Basicly it is a big step back. We were organizing a competition in finn swimming for some years now and had over 300 competitiors on the competition. This year there are not even 50 registered till now and the competition is next weekend.
I'm also organizing a AIDA feediving competition in march and although there are not so may problemes quite a few competitiors have already redrawn from the competiton.
What to do? CMAS is using terror. He is prohibiting. Can he do that? Are there any lawyers here that could give an insight on this? Would it bring sometnihg if we did a petition and send it to some committee for human rights or the OC? Any ideas?
