Myself new in this forum and just looking for some help, I was quite surprised to see a sports politician (no offense ment
) and even the president itself taking part in a kind of discussion.
For this isn't quite common even if you consider a small staff, first of all I would like to thank Mr. Sharara.
Here some questions / comments myself:
1) When it's been spoken about raising interest in tabletennis and raising TV ratings of TT competitions it's been said that both are interconnected. For tabletennis being much more popular in China than in Germany / Europe I would like to know if there are differences in broadcasting tabletennis on TV.
2) You said that "The ITTF makes rules only for the International level and for the events at the international level.". If the ITTFs businesss is the international level only why let you pass a rule that won't even affect the international level, quite well knowing it will be passed down to nerly each national level ? (And let them solve the problems at their national levels)
3) Considering that most national associations pass the ITTF Laws straight down to their national (amateur) level do you think that they see the ITTFs role different as it's been intended ?
4) No question but rather a comment myself: Whatever you think about the latest rules I would like to agree with Cheftrainer that making a rule without a way to proof it is the worst that could be done. Maybe testing at the international level is quite ok or professionals stick better to the honour system than amateurs, but right at the moment cheating is quite a problem at the amateur level (f.e. Bezirksklasse where I am playingsome players are using tuners that can't be proofed - even if there would be someone who would be testing or treating pimples with oil (to get them more flexible)) and I won't think this problem will be less important somewhere else.
sincerely yours,
Zuni