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Max Cobb, president of the technical committee dell''Ibu, unveiled in un''intervista the American site fasterskier.com the guidelines of the regulatory revolution in the near future of biathlon.
Tuesday 16 September 2014 7 minutes reading time
The 'topic & egrave; a new system of & agrave stand as a candidate; for events Ibu which includes qualifying points, the ranking of countries and the odds for major events, and the wild card system. Apparently everything & egrave; going to change and you can & ograve; talk of revolution.
"With all the changes made, we have a created a unique system that we definitely pi & ugrave; fair perch & eacute; allows nations to rise in the rankings in the case of good results and at the same time rewards the performance of athletes of any country, regardless of position in the classification to the nations. "
The system & egrave; ugrave & much more; whole of the previous year and & egrave; similar to that used by Fis. In each race the athletes will receive a coefficient based on the score assigned by default to the winner and on the basis of detachment from the winner himself.
This scoring system will be & agrave; applied to the competitions at all levels in such a way as to allow each athlete to have its own score, and at the same time to give an absolute value at every competition.
Cobb said that the new system will be & agrave; help the team more & ugrave; smaller and with less money because & eacute; "Dar & agrave, the 'opportunity & agrave, in a federation to decide whether to focus exclusively sull''Ibu Cup, whatever the level of their athletes, or if you continue to have two teams, one for the circuit and one cadet for the World Cup . & Egrave, a new door opens, where before c''era a wall. "
As a result, the "weight" of the various stages should be standardized. For example, under the old system happened to have 3 weekend with races that impact on the determination of national quotas (relay, individual, sprint) in front of appointments with a single piece of evidence of this type (sprint only).
Moreover, the number of wild cards for the stages of the World Cup salir & agrave; from 3 to 4 and it will be granted 10 for the World Cup. "Calls" will be awarded on the basis of points and not on the performance of dell''atleta up an entire nation.
"We have noticed that the old system was not designed in a comprehensive manner and as compel some countries to make strategic choices meaningless. Sometimes not acting for the good of the growth of their athletes, but only in order to score points in both Cup World Cup Ibu in that. "
The quotas for 2014 - '' 15 remain those determined on the basis of the results of last season with the old regulations, but the new system will enter & agrave; in force gi & agrave; during this winter in order to create a coefficient for each athlete in view of 2015 - '' 16, when passer & agrave; permanently to the new qualification system.
Cobb has also raised some immediate changes.
1) will decrease the points awarded for the Nations Cup dall''81 & deg; then in place. In this way will benefit nations with a single athlete mid-level (eg Spain female) at the expense of other with a high number of athletes uncompetitive (eg Latvia).
2) The 2014 Nations Cup - '' 15 servir & agrave; to determine the quotas of the season 2015 - '' which will be for 16 & ograve; different than the current system, especially with regard to the center of the classification.
3) The worst ranked nations will see reduced their number of participants at the World Cup. Today & egrave; allowed anyone to have 4 athletes at the start of the world championship races, but in the future will not be agrave &; cos & igrave; (For this & ograve; should apply to Oslo 2016).
Cobb concluded by saying that "all have realized that the system & egrave; was complicated, but at the same time & egrave; become even more & ugrave; fair perch & eacute; respects better the performance of the athletes."
At the moment those words dell''americano are only very vague and give the 'impression of being designed to "promote the product." & Nbsp;
Sar & agrave; necessary to see the new rules written in black and white to draw the necessary conclusions and to assess the real extent of the changes.
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