How do you know who reads your writing on the internet? You don't. To assure that the people who can influence a change on the venue in Rio receive this message, I collected the email addresses of the 140 leaders of the Member National Authorities of the International Sailing Federation (list below) and directly emailed to them on April 21, 2015 with this message:
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Dear Fellow Sailors:
We all have learned that Guanarbara Bay for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Games have not met the target of either being sanitary, or being clear of garbage in order to provide a fair field of play.
It is not too late for you to speak up, have your voice heard and have the Sailing Games moved to a different venue elsewhere in the country of Brazil. Please speak up on behalf of the sailors, race officials, and coaches who must come in contact with the fetid and debris filled waters.
- While the press release from the Aques Test Event in August 2014 reported "success," we now know the reality that competitors became ill, competitors struck debris and lost positions on the race course. This is unacceptable, regardless of what Rio promises. See - http://www.chicagonow.com/sail-lake-michigan/2015/04/the-august-2014-olympic-test-event-fail-in-guanabara-bay-rio/
- Rio has a long history of attempting to clean Guanabara Bay, even before the Olympic bid, and most efforts have come up very short and not reached their goals. There is a high likelihood their current promises will not be met. See - http://www.chicagonow.com/sail-lake-michigan/2015/04/rios-guanabara-bay-clean-up-efforts/
- While the Olympic Movement desires the most incredible specimen of strength, agility and talent that the human body can perform, it has made it clear that certain drugs are banned (WADA). However, for sailing athletes to go to Guanabara Bay, they must take a plethora of drugs in order to combat the disease present. This is counter-intuitive. Athletes should not have to take drugs in order to compete. See - http://www.chicagonow.com/sail-lake-michigan/2015/04/2016-rio-olympic-sailing-drug-ban-hypocrisy/
- How hard would it be to move the Sailing Olympics out of Guanabara Bay to a clean water venue? See - http://www.chicagonow.com/sail-lake-michigan/2015/04/move-the-2016-olympic-paralympic-sailing-venue-out-of-rios-guanabara-bay/
Please voice your opinions and make the call that Guanabara Bay is no longer an acceptable venue.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Glenn T. McCarthy
Writer for the:
Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation newsletter www.LMSRF.org
ChicagoNow blog www.ChicagoNow.com/Sail-Lake-Michigan
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Email List:
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North America & Caribbean |
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| Antigua | Geoffrey D Pidduck | ||
| Bahamas | Lori Lowe | ||
| Bermuda | Martin Siese | ||
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| Cuba | Raidel Calero Disotuar | ||
| El Salvador | Jorge Ernesto Guevara | ||
| Guatemala | Eduardo Cabarrus | ||
| Antilles, Netherlands | Cor van Aanholt | ||
| St. Kitts and Nevis | Mark Theron | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | Michael Rostant | ||
| Aruba | Robert-Jan Moons | ||
| Barbados | Renata Goodridge | ||
| British Virgin Islands | Robert Phillips | ||
| Cayman Islands | Mike Farrington | ||
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| Grenada | James Benoit | ||
| Jamaica | Ian Gibson | ||
| Puerto Rico | Eric Tulla | ||
| St. Lucia | Ulrich Meixner | ||
| USA | Tom Hubbell | ||
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| Argentina | Pablo Masseroni | ||
| Brazil | Marco Aurelio de Sa Ribeiro | ||
| Columbia | Paula Douat Corredor | ||
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| Uruguay | Sergio Perez | ||
| Belize | Shelley Bradley | ||
| Chile | Leo Dreyer | ||
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| Panama | Miguel Jaen | ||
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| Venezuela | Maria Adela Perez | ||
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Africa |
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| Algeria | Mohamed Atbi | ||
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| Egypt | Medhat Khalil | ||
| Libya | Nureddin Eseddig Elkrekshi | ||
| Mauritius | Ramsurrun Jeewoth | ||
| Mozambique | Helio Darosa | ||
| Nigeria | FIB Porbeni | ||
| Seychelles | Alain Alcindor | ||
| Sudan | Yousif Ahmed Yousif | ||
| Tunisia | Hedi Gharbi | ||
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| Angola | Nuno Gomes | ||
| Djibouti | Abdoulkader Houmed Daoud | ||
| Kenya | Teddy Mwambodze Ndaro | ||
| Madagascar | Brice Jacobson Andrianirina | ||
| Morocco | Ahmed Benouadden | ||
| Namibia | Kristen Davidson | ||
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Balde | ||
| South Africa | Phillip Baum | ||
| Tanzania | Alastair Bush | ||
| Uganda | Stephen Lugemwa Luswata | ||
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| American Somoa | James L McGuire | ||
| Cook Islands | Anne Tierney | ||
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| Papua New Guinea | TBC TBC | ||
| Soloman Islands | Bryan Thornton | ||
| Vanuatu | Barry Bailey | ||
| Australia | Matthew Allen | ||
| Fiji | Shayne Brodie | ||
| New Zealand | David Abercrombie | ||
| Samoa | Nynette Sass | ||
| Tahiti | Thierry Hars | ||
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Asia |
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| Azerbaijan | Gudrat Gurbanov | ||
| China, PR | Xiao Tian | ||
| Hong Kong | Warwick Downes | ||
| Indonesia | Djoko Pramono | ||
| Japan | Shoichi Maeda | ||
| Korea | Soonho Park | ||
| Kuwait | Fahd Alfahd | ||
| Lebanon | Edmond Chaghoury | ||
| Myanmar | U Moe Myint | ||
| Pakistan | Vice Admiral Syed Arifullah Hussaini HI(M) | ||
| Philippines | Ernesto Echauz | ||
| Saudi Arabia | Rear Admiral Awwad Eid AlBalawi | ||
| Sri Lanka | Joseph Kenny | ||
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Khalid Bin Zayed Bin Saqr Al Nehayan | ||
| Bahrain | S.K.B. A. Al-Khalifa | ||
| Chinese Taipei | Hon-Dow Lin | ||
| India | DK Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VS | ||
| Iran | Gholamreza Amini | ||
| Kazakhstan | Sergey Zelenskiy | ||
| Korea | Ko Nung Du | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | Vladimir Kirik | ||
| Malaysia | YB Dato' Kamaruzzaman Abu Kassim | ||
| Oman | Rashid Ibrahim Al Kindi | ||
| Palestine | Mahfouz Kabariti | ||
| Qatar | Khalifa M Al-Sewaidi | ||
| Singapore | Benedict Tan | ||
| Thailand | Khamthorn Pumhiran | ||
| Vietnam | Nguyen Hai Duong | ||
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| Andorra | Josep M Pla | ||
| Belgium | Peter Van den Bosche | ||
| Czech Republic | Karel Bauer | ||
| France | Jean-Pierre Champion | ||
| Great Britain | Sarah Treseder | ||
| Ireland | David Lovegrove | ||
| Latvia | Ansis Dale | ||
| Malta | Anna Rossi | ||
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| Romania | Robert Penciu | ||
| Slovakia | Marian Babjak | ||
| Switzerland | Vincent Hagin | ||
| Armenia | Ashot Khachatryan | ||
| Bulgaria | Valentin Nikolov | ||
| Denmark | Hans Natorp | ||
| Macedonia | Stevco Stavrev | ||
| Greece | Antonis Dimitrakopoulos | ||
| Israel | Gilad Amir | ||
| Liechtenstein | Albert Frick | ||
| Moldova | Alexandr Denisiuc | ||
| Norway | Tor Moinichen | ||
| Russia | Vladimir Silkin | ||
| Slovenia | Aljosa Tomaz | ||
| Turkey | Mehmet Serhat Belli | ||
| Austria | Herbert Houf | ||
| Croatia | Ana Mrak Taritaš | ||
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| Italy | Carlo Croce | ||
| Lithuania | Naglis Nasvytis | ||
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| San Marino | Marino Federico Fattori | ||
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| Luxembourg | Martine Mergen | ||
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| Sweden | Lena Engström | ||
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