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SPORTSwww.sportsmanagement.co.uk MANAGEMENT VOLUME 14 Q1 2010 SURREY SPORTS PARK Sporting excellence for Surrey University THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SAPCA VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC FACILITY FOCUS GROWING THE GRASSROOTS British Gymnastics embraces the RICHARD LEWIS sport’s success The chair of Sport England on the power of sport READ SPORTS MANAGEMENT ONLINE WWW.SPORTSMANAGEMENT.CO.UK /DIGITAL Boost your business Harness the power of our total marketing package SPORTS MANAGEMENT Sports Management leads the industry in offering you a comprehensive range of marketing services which enable you to generate sales leads, develop awareness of your company's brand and create innovative and effective campaigns using all the latest techniques - online and in print Book your marketing campaign with Sports Management and your advertisement will appear ++ Magazine Digital magazine Online search engine In the market-leading In the online, digital On your company's Sports Management version of home page on magazine Sports Management sport-kit.net the search magazine engine for sports buyers ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES Call us now to find out more about the great advertising opportunities we offer you online Advertorials, banner and directory advertising, home page and email dominator packages, animated adverts and a wide range of search marketing packages. With over 14,000 monthly visitors to our website - can you afford not to be on there? Call now on +44 (0)1462 471902 or email: [email protected] www.sportsmanagement.co.uk EDITOR’S LETTER SPORTSwww.sportsmanagement.co.uk Making it safe MANAGEMENT VOLUME 14 Q1 2010 SURREY SPORTS PARK Sporting excellence for Surrey University ports facility designers rarely make the headlines, but the tragic death of Georgian luge com- THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SAPCA S petitor Nodar Kumaritashvili at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver has brought facility design and the practices and policies which drive it, right into the public eye for the very saddest reason. There will be an inquiry to establish exactly what happened, but as we go to press, opinion seems di- VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC vided, with some saying the course was safe, attributing the accident to an error made by Kumaritashvili FACILITY FOCUS GROWING THE GRASSROOTS British Gymnastics and portraying him as an inexperienced competitor. Others echo the view of Georgian president Mikheil embraces the RICHARD LEWIS sport’s success The chair of Sport England on the power of sport Saakashvili, who said that even if a mistake was made: “One thing I know for sure is that no sports mis- READ SPORTS MANAGEMENT ONLINE WWW.SPORTSMANAGEMENT.CO.UK /DIGITAL takes should lead to a death, no sports mistakes are supposed to be fatal.” Kumaritashvili, far from being PHOTO: WWW.ZOE.ORG.IM Zoe Gillings, British an inexperienced competitor, was a veteran of five world championships and ranked 44 in the world. He Olympic snowboarder died when he flew off the course at 90mph and hit a post during training. While it’s understandable that the IOC and the Vancouver organising committee will want to distance e-mail: please use contact’s themselves from any claims of liability resulting from this death, there’s a wider debate to be had about [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS how far and fast sports facility design develops and how much we push it in pursuit of records. Julie Albone Many sports take place within fixed environments which are constructed to exact tolerances to ensure +44 (0)1462 471915 consistency and the only major developments which take place in these sports are those delivered by im- EDITOR provements in athletic performance, in technique or in equipment design and construction. Liz Terry +44 (0)1462 431385 Sports like the luge rely on records being set by the achievement MANAGING EDITOR Karen Maxwell of a top speed rather than a speed measured over a given distance, +44 (0)1462 471920 but are we pushing facility design too fast in pursuit of records? PUBLISHER Nadeem Shaikh The majority of winter sports, however, are played out in facilities which vary on a competition by +44 (0)1462 471902 competition basis, making comparisons difficult – it’s simply who’s fastest on that course on that day. We NEWS EDITOR can’t ultimately know whether the gold medallist in the downhill skiing in one Olympic Games is a bet- Tom Walker +44 (0)1462 471934 ter skiier than the medallist in the following Games, because there can be no consistency in the course JOURNALISTS when variables such as natural terrain, snow or ice conditions and the weather dictate the challenge. Martin Nash As a result of this, sports like the luge rely on some world records being set by the achievement of a +44 (0)1462 471933 top speed, rather than just a speed measured over a given distance and one of the aims of the designer Pete Hayman is to create a ‘fast course’ where records can be broken. One question to be asked about Vancouver is +44 (0)1462 471938 whether the design of the course pushed too far too quickly. Were the athletes ready for a course that PRODUCTS EDITORS Sarah Todd challenging and were enough allowances made in the design to accommodate errors if any were made? +44 (0)1462 471927 The course is incredibly fast, with competitors reaching world record speeds of 154mph and a number DISPLAY ADVERTISING of other crashes happened in training before the accident occurred. John Challinor The luge is a dangerous sport and of all the things that could go wrong, fly- +44 (0)1582 607970 ing off the top of a wall is one of the most obvious, yet at the point where Jan Williams +44 (0)1462 471909 Kumaritashvili left the track, the safety wall had been cut down to a lower level, while the metal posts next to the track had been left unpadded. DESIGN Ed Gallagher In situations where facility design is going up a gear to push for world +44 (0)1905 20198 records and to take a sport forward, extra safety features need to be built Andy Bundy in to avoid accidents having serious consequences. Facility designers have +44 (0)1462 471924 Claire Toplis a clear responsibility to ensure that the fatal combination of factors which +44 (0)1462 471910 led to Kumaritashvili’s death can never be repeated and that failsafes are INTERNET built into the design of all extreme sports facilities in the future. 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