Four-Man was born female! The first demonstration race at the World Championships in Igls 2016

The four-man bob female becomes part of the program of the World Championships in Igls, 2016. The decision & egrave; It was originated at the end of the international meeting dell''ultimo IBSF whose executive committee has added the new discipline & nbsp; set within the next event of the World Championship calendar.

Thursday 22 October 2015 7 minutes reading time

The competition which will have & agrave; only demonstration purposes, will be held & agrave; nell''ultima day of competition and will develop & agrave; the distance of the two rounds and not on the four descents as in the four-man bob male. It closes with a happy ending the long battle to the sound of campaigns and online petitions launched by the main protagonists of the bob women who for years clamored for the International Federation to introduce evidence of the four-man bob for women. Last year the IBSF had partially granted the request allowing the participation of mixed crews in the bobsleigh four. All''appello had responded present only two athletes, Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers, who supported by three males had brakeman & nbsp; they disputed much of the evidence on the calendar of the World Cup with results from low ranking. The birth of the four-man bob female seems to be the 'nth found illogical by the International Federation, which instead & egrave; seek a remedy to get out of the deep crisis of the disciplines which looks after the interests, continues cheerfully to look improbable and hasty solutions raise. & nbsp; With the regulations issued during the International Council of May, the "genius" of the steering IBSF he first thought to reduce the quotas in Olympic competitions and world, and later launched a new regulation regarding the maximum weight allowed for each crew bob female & egrave; It was lowered by 30kg from season 2017-2018. These new introductions regulations according to the International Federation would ensure a revival of their disciplines in particular in bob female, but as it was easy to predict these absurd regulations are already & agrave; giving opposite results than expected. And '' news a few days ago in fact, that the American pilot Jazmine Fenlator, has decided to leave the US federation to begin the 'process of change of nationality & agrave ;. The thirty year old & nbsp; originally from New Jersey, the third in the overall standings last season, has taken this decision because this new regulation and the strong internal competition would not be certain of taking part in the next Olympics. & Nbsp; At the same time the reduction of the maximum weight allowed for each team's bob female is making a big confusion in the various teams. The dominator of the last edition of the World Cup Elana Meyers & nbsp; not arrive unprepared for the Olympic Games of 2018 has seen fit to adapt to new regulations and cos & Igrave; to star in the new standard weight & egrave; He was forced to change brakeman. The same Meyers-Taylor explained to the media that with the new Regulation & egrave; radically changed the thrust but also the guidance of bob, because & egrave; the extra pounds less force the athletes to lead different trajectories. & nbsp; To complete the picture a little rosy women's movement, they are the numbers of practitioners merciless. Next season accomplices withdrawals of Martini and Szczurek and the forced stop of Fenlator, the World Cup ripartir & agrave; with a small number of competitors at the start, in many appointments will & agrave; hard to top 13 teams share, and above the level of competition will be & agrave; blatantly disproportionate, with four teams (two American, one Canadian and one German) fighting for the podium and the rest of the company to do exclusively supporting cast paying detachments abysmal. In light of all this we cos & Igrave; sure that the four-man bob women (discipline which, among other things & egrave; never been tested in an official match, except for championships Romanian bobsled four where Maria Adela Constantin took part with a crew entirely female ed) both the right recipe to revive this sport? Or maybe it was more & ugrave; appropriate to put women on monobob, since one of the main problems faced by the federations as the procurement of frenatrici? & nbsp; For posterity 'judge ... & nbsp;