RE: New FEI standards

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

Wow! I knew that Maktoum wanted into the Olympics big time. In view of our
experience, watch out everyone.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg

-----Original Message-----
From: Teddy Lancaster [mailto:Teddy@runningbear.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 12:06 AM
To: USA EAST USA EAST; ridecamp ridecamp; Ed Paige
Subject: RC: New FEI standards


REAL interesting stuff......


> FEI imposes strict rules
>
> From M. Satyanarayan
> Compiegne, France - The Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), the
> governing body of equestrian activities worldwide has decided to use the
> carrot and stick policy for countries, including the United States, in its
bid
> to make endurance an Olympic discipline.
>
> Addressing a press conference here on the eve of the 8th World
> Endurance Championship, Endurance chief at the FEI Michael Stone said
> that one of the biggest obstacles in the path of endurance becoming an
> Olympic sport was the apathy towards FEI-organised rides from
> countries like USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
>
> "These countries organise rides under their own national federation rules
> which affect the rides organised under the FEI umbrella. To start with,
> from the next world championship we will not accept the US riders unless
> they have qualified through FEI-organised rides. So far we have been
> accepting their entries but this will be the last time they will be
allowed,"
> Stone said.
>
> This means that the US riders, who have won all the world championships
> will have to toe the FEI-line or miss the world event.
>
> The carrot comes in the form of an increase in the prize money for the FEI
> Emirates Worldwide Endurance Ranking announced by Faisal Seddiq Al
> Mutawa, FEI member and General Secretary of the UAE Equestrian and
> Racing Federation .
>
> The ranking which was introduced by the UAE and FEI in 1999 had
> offered US $25,000, $15,000, $10,000 for the top three ranked riders. It
> has now been increased to $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000.
>
> 'We hope the increase in prize money will attract riders from US,
> Australia and Canada to organise rides under the FEI umbrella and help
> their riders take a shot at the world rankings," Faisal Seddiq said.
>
> Commenting on the success of the ranking system which was conceived
> by the UAE, Faisal Seddiq said it had created a lot of enthusiasm among
> riders worldwide who now felt pride in being placed in the ranking.
>
> "The ranking for horses has also helped on the economic front with horses
> that were earlier fetching around $10,000 now being sold at $40,000.
> The owners, breeders and riders have all benefited by the ranking system
> with the increase in numbers being a pointer towards its success," Faisal
> Seddiq added.
>
> Commending UAE's role in promoting endurance worldwide, Michael
> Stone said the FEI was working closely with the UAE in this
> direction."Some of the major hurdles have been removed to enable
> smaller national federation to organise FEI rides," he said.
>
> A reduction in the official FEI fees, change in rules to enable lesser
> number of officials to supervise the rides and also changes to facilitate
> foreign delegates at such rides were some of the steps taken by the FEI to
> promote endurance rides.
>
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