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Emily Sarsfield Olympic bid-please sign petition.

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http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/angry-skicross-athlete-emily-sarsfield-set-to-take-legal-action-after-sochi-omission-9079910.html

Is there an opportunity to Crowdfund Emily to get to Sochi?
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mr brain cheat, I hope Emily Sarsfield wins her legal challenge - it would be nice to see some of the British officials with egg on their face over their inflexible and sometimes incomprehensible selection policies... Madeye-Smiley
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I am fully behind her challenge. She so deserves that place....
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Alastair Pink, +1. I was looking forward to seeing our former neighbour competing in the Winter Olympics.
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As I said in another thread, this was always going to happen when they allowed athletes in who didn't meet the boa criteria (Chemmy for example) I agree she should go, bit athlete but then so should a number of other athletes.
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I am fully behind her challenge. She so deserves that place....


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I cant say I've much interest in rules that surround the selection procedures but it certainly sounds unfair and must be terribly upsetting for her. It seems to be a decision made in a board room that pride wont allow to be reversed. Who ever it is that wont take a bit of stick to allow someone elses dreams to become reality is a real *rs'ole rolling eyes
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Devastated for Emily, 17th in the World Champs and 21st on the Sochi track... Plus Ski Cross is so exciting!!! BOA and BSS need to rethink!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/winter-olympics/10592234/British-ski-cross-No-1-Emily-Sarsfield-threatens-legal-action-against-BOA-over-her-non-selection-for-Sochi.html

Support Emily on twitter @EmSkiCross #Sarsfield4Sochi

Support will stop them doing this again!
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i'm not sure i'd agree that its exciting.....that doesnt mean that I dont support her efforts though Smile
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eddiethebus wrote:
i'm not sure i'd agree that its exciting.....that doesnt mean that I dont support her efforts though Smile


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I'm in two minds over this. One the one hand I'd really, really like her to go and it seems sensible for the BOA to take a risk on her. But as a slightly separate issue I fail to see how a legal challenge is relevant or right. Does she have a legal right to go? Should a footballer be able to mount a legal challenge to a referee's decision he doesn't agree with? Should X factor contestants be able to mount a legal challenge and insist on their legal right to get through to the next round? If the BOA have an appeals process then that is the route to take. If they don't, then that's that.

Please don't interpret the comment above as anything negative about ES. It's not intended as such.
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foxtrotzulu, there's precedent for legal challenges.
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meh, I didn't say there wasn't. I was just questioning whether there should be and whether the law should have a role in every decision made by any organisation. If admin gets fed up with me and bans me should I have the right to legal appeal? No.
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foxtrotzulu, you asked why a legal challenge was relevant. It's relevant because there is precedent for doing it successfully. Hence it is an avenue to pursue regardless of back seat lawyering.
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Ultimately the BOA and BSS are responsible for this, they have places they could have filled with athletes, which for whatever reason they have chosen not to. They have put athletes in the team who didn't meet their prescribed criteria but met IOC criteria.

I do have respect for all the people who have sacrificed their life to try and get a place at the Olympics and I hope the respective bodies will see sense and send as many people not currently on the list to represent our country.

Of I was in Emily Sarsfields position I would be pursuing every avenue available to get me to Sochi.
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ansta1, precisely, it's the double standards that are awful never mind the fact that we put basically zero money into funding these guys.
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I am fully behind her challenge. She so deserves that place....

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I must admit to being a bit confused as I thought yesterday it was because there simply wasn't a place in the comp. BSS are utter funny fellows if they've blocked her and a lower ranked skier from another country I'd going to fill that place. Would be nice if the BBC in one of their bits of build up sycophancy put the Chef du Mission on the spot a bit about non selection policy.
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She has hit the qualification standards that the BSS and BOA require (3 x top 24's at World Cup). Only 32 girls get to race ski cross in Sochi, in heats of 4. Winning 2 progressing to next round, she competes with the best skiers week in and week out but will be missing from the start line in Sochi because the BOA and BSS don't understand her sport. If they did - no one in the right mind would turn down a ski cross quota!!

Please show support and make the BOA see sense and sign her petition!!

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/british-olympic-organisation-accept-emily-sarsfield-s-invitation-from-fis-to-participate-in-the-ski-cross-event-at-the-2014-winter-olympics-in-sochi#intro
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Done. vic(toria) I assume.
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Signed also.
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Signed. I can't understand why they don't want her to go. You'd think they'd be pleased she'd qualified Puzzled
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Signed.

Olympic participation should not be about only entering competitors who are expected to finish in the top two thirds (though she probably would anyhow).

If there are places available, and we have athletes who meet the IOC qualification standards, then those places should be taken.
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Signed, Petition just broke 600 signatures, 400 more to go
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Signed and passed on , let's make it 1000 !
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mr brain cheat, I've edited your thread title to draw attention to the petition. Come on snowHeads, get signing.


https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/british-olympic-organisation-accept-emily-sarsfield-s-invitation-from-fis-to-participate-in-the-ski-cross-event-at-the-2014-winter-olympics-in-sochi#intro
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Signed & passed on
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Currently only 759 signed up. Surely 30 odd thousand snowheads can do better?
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Signed. snowHead
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Signed, 815 so far
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Signed. Up to 836.
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