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DAILY BULLETIN Editor: BRIAN SENIOR • Co-Editor: PETER VENTURA • Layout: GEORGE HADJIDAKIS Bulletin 10 Thursday evening, 28 August 2003 ITALY are France St.Cloud-Paris World Champions! 18-28 August 2003 A strong morning session from Italy put the final beyond the reach of Denmark, who must settle for the silver medal.The final score was 87.67 IMPs in favour of the Italians. Congrat- ulations to Furio & Stelio di Bello, Fabio Lo Presti & Francesco Mazzadi, Ruggiero Guariglia & Stefano Uccello, npc Gianpaolo Rinaldi and coach Andrea Pagani - Champions of the World! The runners-up are Kare Gjaldbaek & Martin Schaltz, Bjorg & Jonas Houmoller,Andreas Marquardsen & Boje Henriksen, npc Jacob Ron and coach Lars W Petersen. The bronze medal was won yesterday by USA2 - Kevin Bathurst & Kent Italy Mignocchi, John Kranyak & Joe Grue, John Hurd & Joel Wooldridge, npc Robert Rosen and coach Andy O'Grady. 9th World Youth Team Youth 9th World CHAMPIONSHIP 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS St. Cloud-Paris, France Announcing the 1st World Junior Individual Championship New York, NY,USA Y 14-16 July 2004 The WBF Youth Committee is pleased to announce offi- vidual Championship will be played in four sessions. cially that a new competition, exclusively reserved for Scoring will be with the barometer system which allows young players, is to be added to the world calendar. competitors to know their exact position minutes after they have played a round. The World Junior Individual Championship will be launched next year in New York City, and will take place The Individual Championship presents a different kind of during the North American Bridge Championships. challenge to competitors, in that players need to be skil- ful in performing in a non-preset environment. Like in The World Junior Individual Championship comes to life, one needs to adjust to existing conditions rather complete the world titles already available to young play- than rely upon things being as planned. For this reason, ers in the other forms of bridge competition (teams, the Individual stresses the social element of bridge. pairs). It is designed to be held biennially in North Amer- ica in odd-numbered years (starting from 2007), exactly as the World Junior Pairs Championship is being held The 1st World Individual Championship will be followed biennially in Europe (in even-numbered years as from by the 6th World Junior Camp which will take place at 2006). Adelphi University, on New York's Long Island,17-24 July 2004. The World Junior Individual Championship is open to all players who are Juniors (born in 1979 or later, for next The WBF Youth Committee looks forward to welcoming year's event) and members of a National Bridge Federa- as many Juniors as possible to the 1st World Junior Indi- tion (NBO).There are no restrictions as to the number vidual Championship and the 6th World Junior Camp. of players a NBO may send.All players will play a simple Details will be announced soon and will be posted on natural system which will be announced by the WBF in the official websites of both the WBF (www.world- due time.Very much like the Pairs tournament, the Indi- bridge.org) and ACBL (www.acbl.org). Welcome to the President Emeritus The President Emeritus of symbol of world suprema- the World Bridge Federa- cy at Junior bridge. tion Mr Jaime Ortiz-Patiño arrived in Paris today to Mr Ortiz-Patiño has been attend the last stages of President Emeritus of the the Championship and World Bridge Federation present the Ortiz-Patiño since he left office, and has Trophy to the winners at never forgotten Junior the closing ceremony. bridge. He attends regular- ly his brainchild event and At the end of his 10-year is ready to offer support service as President of whenever we need it. the World Bridge Federa- tion (1976-86), Mr Ortiz- It is therefore with great Patiño established a WBF pleasure that we welcome Youth Committee with the WBF President Emeri- the result that the World tus at the Championship, Youth Team Champi- and we wish him well now onship was launched in and in the future. 1987. Mr Ortiz-Patiño graciously donated the wonderful Panos Gerontopoulos trophy bearing his name, which has since become the WBF Youth Cmte Chmn 2 18 - 28 August 2003 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS José Damiani’s Closing Speech One more. Once more we made it. If this 9th World Youth Bridge entire world - through very extensive internet and media cover- Team Championship was a great success, it is clearly because of age - how bridge will be brilliant in the future. the fruitful cooperation between our part- And believe me, that sentiment touches my ner, Société Générale, our host the French heart. Bridge Federation, you the players and, of course, the World Bridge Federation orga- Moreover, having lived together during the nizing and Youth committees.Thank you Mr. past 10 days, we were able to see that our Hugues Le Bret, head of the Société motto "Bridge for Peace" became a reality Générale Communication Group, for your as you were all exchanging ideas and forging active support and for your friendship true friendships beyond the competition. which will help the promotion of our sport. I am more than happy to underline this very With your associates - Mr.Thierry Dehes- positive behaviour on the part of young din, Mr. Jean-Claude Poidevin and Mr. Jean- people as it is so rare nowadays. Pierre Dinspel - please accept this award with our gratitude. At the end of the day we have winners and Our thanks go also to the Executive Com- medalists who I am happy to congratulate, mittee of the French Bridge Federation who but you all deserve special applause and welcomed us to their headquarters and to all prizes for your excellent participation. their staff who worked with us with goodwill, knowledge and dynamism. Many of the par- We love all of you even though now, with ticipants came to congratulate and thank us our great friend and President Emeritus for the quality of the organization and the Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, we are only going to be warm atmosphere. That is our best reward. awarding the gold, silver and bronze medals. Now it is our turn to thank you, the players, captains and coaches. We count on you - you are our hopes for the future of bridge. See you again soon. I am very proud of you. Not only did you perform very well but you showed to the José Damiani Closing Speech of Panos Gerontopoulos Mr President Championship. Nearly 400 young players from almost 30 Mr President Emeritus countries gathered there, in a great bridge event that brought Ladies and Gentlemen together players of all categories and offered everybody a great Dearest Juniors, satisfaction through tough competition for the top, opportunity for meeting and weighting one's ability for the average, and par- It is so pleasing to have such a large number of important peo- ticipation for the weak. ple among us tonight, and we are very happy that we are adding together another golden page to the history book of our sport Immediately afterwards, the World Junior Camp proved that as we come to the close of our top event, the World Youth Team we do care for all young players, not just the top and privileged. Championship. In the Camps, bridge shines mainly through its social aspect which makes it so unique among most sports.This is evident when we The presence of our sport's highest authorities here, speaks for see that all categories of players can indeed mix together and help itself as it indicates the great interest that is given to the young one another flawlessly. And we have the opportunity to demon- players. Bridge is conscious that the young players carry the vi- strate that indeed bridge complements rather than competes tality of our sport, and young people should be conscious that with physical sports for a place in the life of a young person. bridge offers them a constructive alternative to today's video nonsense and provides an answer to some of the most painful Now, I am pleased to announce a new event which will become social problems. part of our programme as from next year. The World Junior The support offered to Junior bridge is not just words but Individual Championship comes to complete the cycle of materializes in a specific programme that addresses all categories events that we offer in order to stimulate youth bridge develop- of players.The World Youth Team Championship is the flag- ment. Some people are not happy because in the Individual you ship of our programme. It covers the world's top players, and is do not choose your partner but have to team up with many dif- the end of a long process of selection and qualification. Here we ferent people. However, those who are able to function in a get the answer to who is the world's best, and here we see who diverse environment have a great advantage in life.The inaugural is going to reign in bridge heaven over the coming decades. event will take place in New York next July, and it is open to all young players from around the world.The Individual will be fol- A few weeks ago, in Hungary,we concluded another competition, lowed by a World Junior Camp. The two events together will, I much more massive and diverse, the World Junior Pairs am sure, be the year's top attraction for all Juniors! 3 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS St.