November 2 2006
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If you want to see how Italy is preparing for its Junior World Comps in 2007 you can check their just “up and running ” site . Look at www.wgcrieti.it and click on JWGC and you will find out what´s written in their first bulletin in the documents and rules section. More news will follow soon.Deadline for preliminary entries is January 31 2007.Please keep that in mind, thanks!

Yesterday night I had dinner with Bill and Val Riley. Bill was the founder of Sportavia in the early 70thies and as the more or less ” protector ” of Ingo Renner, the one and only 4 times world champion, he visited many different gliding places in the world. To nearly ALL WORLD COMPS where Ingo competed, they went too and it was very interesting to hear from them, that both loved the Rieti side in 1985 best of ALL. As Val called it :”The town embraced the gliding and the pilots. They had the most beautiful tenors singing in an old abbey . Everybody felt so welcome and happy and at no other field we had such a buzz as at these World comps.The area was so beautiful and the food great , the hospitality warm and the gliding place easy, not dusty and with a good infrastructure. ”

This week I will have an intervieuw with Ingo , see what he remembers of Italy and from all other places where he flew. Of course we want to know what he found of his first winter since “ages”.A bit later we talk with the current World Champion in open class Michael Sommer, so stay tuned.Ritz