On Monday, September 17, 2012 1:11:31 PM UTC-5, wrote:
To everyone with an interest: Given the sub-par, and I am being generous here, performance of the US Soaring Team at the recently completed WGC. Is anyone else wondering what in the world happened? Maybe the lack of debate and substantive change around this topic is why we did so badly in the first place. Clearly, US Team selection, training, and decision-making (among other things) did not work. And if our team can't work at here at "home", then how can we expect it to work when we send teams overseas. We can't do much worse than we just did, so how can we change our competitive fortunes? Or does no one care? Al Batross

the other pilots were faster. there is very little home field advantage in soaring in my observation. fast pilots are fast, no matter the location, weather, etc. it seems to me that we sent the fastest pilots in the US to the contest and they weren't as fast as the fastest pilots from other countries.