Discussion: Ballots

were terribly boring. Absolutely no funny business whatsoever.

I was a counter at the Federal election a few weeks back but only noticed one vote for Trump.

When will the middle distance make its way into WMOC?

I think both the Latvians (2019) and the Danes (2018) expressed willingness to have the new program, and it would be set from 2020 on.

Aww, that's no fun :( I like having 2 long qualifiers!

Where is that written? I just saw the introduction of a middle distance!

Was the vote to not having equal winning times close? Who was against it? How did we vote Blair? Bit antiquated really - women actually run longer in marathon events...

Seems like the tennis argument won: "the idea was put forward that the status of the medallists is already seen as equal today, despite the different time lengths of the courses, and subsequently the object of equality is already achieved."

So what happens next - are the "discipline commissions of the IOF" now free to decide how long the women's race is without having to change the length of the mens race. Specifically, can they just change the W21 long winning time to 90-100 minutes without silly arguments about whether that's the right type of gender parity?

The vote was 21-10. From the discussion, there are a few dinosaurs still out there, but I think most of the votes against were largely motivated by what countries say as their self-interest with respect to the strengths of the runners they have now. (As the saying goes, "always back self-interest - it's the one horse that you know is trying").

The process is interesting because this did not need to go to the General Assembly and Sweden must now be regretting taking that route. Whilst, in formal terms, Council (taking advice from the Commissions) can ignore this vote and make its own decision, realistically, now that the General Assembly has stated its position, there is not really a mandate to reverse that without another General Assembly vote.

Did I miss the point? I thought you said that the motion for longer womens course was withdrawn, and the section on enforcing an "equal-time" interpretation of gender parity defeated in favour of an "equal respect" interpretation.

If the GA didn't vote against 90-100 winning time for women, or even at 86:24 :), surely that's an option?

How did the US vote on this?

We voted in favor and spoke in favor.

Good for us. Who was our spokesperson?

Glen and I were the delegates for the US. I attempted to say something coherent on this issue. I think I was still annoyed at the comments from the council/vice-presidents composition vote.

Sounds like all the countries outside of Europe voted for it.

And six years later, it's happening (see minutes of meeting 213).

I was about to say, Blair gets on the IOF and Things Start To Happen, but this occurred before you were voted on.

I see WMOC clashes with WMTBOC yet again in 2024 although this time it's a direct clash rather than a clash with the training week (although after this week I have no real desire to return to Finnish foot orienteering).

I hadn't heard anything about these changes, surprised there wasn't more hubbub about it. Or maybe most people were like, "about time!" and went about their day.