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Zitat von Zuni
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 |
1. Yes, a big difference. Table tennis in China is like Football in Europe. So the national television (CCTV) buys the rights and pays good money to broadcast the ITTF events. In Europe, the ITTF must fight with the TV networks to get time for TT. We have succeeded with Eurosport who shows now the WTTC, the World Cup and the European Champs.
2. I said that an international federation makes its rules for the events it controls, which are the international events. Then it's up to each national association to decide how to implement at the national level. Rules are proposed by the national associations themselves. All rules are made to better control the sport. Perhaps those that proposed the rule wished it implemented at the national level, or perhaps they did not want certain elements to come up to the international level.
3. No, they do not see the ITTF role's as different. They know exactly the ITTF's role. Perhaps you are confusing the different aspects of the ITTF. The ITTF is composed of the national associations, they propose the rules. The ITTF "is" the composition of all national associations. Then when it comes to jurisdiction of policing or implementing any rule, the ITTF does so at the international level and the national associations at the national level.
4. If we would follow this logic, then drugs would be legal everywhere. It is impossible to catch every kid or every person that uses illegal drugs in the streets or in their private place. Does it mean that then it should be legal? Rules are made for the betterment of society, then the governments try to police and enforce it, but it is impossible to catch every single person that cheats.