Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Good news. It's more than he told me!! Gordy says that he* "will provide funding of £200m for elite athletes, including paralympic athletes, for the next 7 years, helping them to achieve their medal ambitions". Thats about £30m a year. In addition, £300m will come from the National Lottery and the ...

The BOA and UK sport have been lobbying the chancellor, Gordon Brown for an extra £44m a year to boost performances at the London Olympics. My mate, Gordy tells me he can only afford £20m a year. (He's going to tell the rest of you in tomorrow's budget). Still, it sound a lot of dosh. I wonder how ...

On behalf of the paddlers, I would like to thank Dave and all the club members for organising such a successful event. The large number of entries could easily have caused problems but the event was super smooth. I particularly noted that the starter in the afternoon was sensibly varying the start ...

I don't think that I really understand the question. However if the boat has gone 500m in 100 seconds then it has travelled at an average speed of 18 km per hour. (0.5 x 3,600/100) ... If the boat has travelled at that speed, then presumably the paddler (and the paddle) have all travelled at the sa...

Nick Penfold's recommendations for year end demotions were discussed and approved by the Slalom Committee at their meeting following the ACM. Unfortunately. I do not have the details to hand. My recollection was that the demotion levels (in terms of points totals) were very similar to last season. ...

Apologies for breaking the unwritten rule of bumping your own post to the top by replying to it (but within minutes of me posting this, CP had posted a dozen topics about the ACM business and it immediately got relegated to page 2!!) It is a minor bug bear of mine and I wanted more paddlers to see ...

I'm not now sure on this one. When I first looked at it seemed spot on. I thought that it would relieve the administrative headache that the current multi-entry discount causes to Catharine, the (volunteer) Slalom Accounts Manager. One entry fee = One levy = Simplicity. I had not considered the aff...

Over 100 days on the Boards and no apparant concensus. I've re-read all the contributions and also listened to the discussion at a recent Slalom Committee meeting. The difficulty seems to be in being able to draft a rule change that: Improves the safety of the sport, and Is fair to all competitors,...

Who are ya! Who are ya! (or more particularly, who are we!) I've noticed several times over the past months a number of contibutors referring to the "BCU" when they speak about some of our rules. I've often seen comments along the lines of "The levies paid by Clubs to the BCU are too high", as thou...

As posted on the Ironbridge thread, Nick can only publish results that he gets electronically. Nick would have been sent a paper copy of the results from the organiser and he will have used these to update the bootleg ranking lists. He will not have been able to publish the results though from the ...