At 08:27 22 April 2018, wrote:
Here's a debatable subject few appreciate.

For the second time in five years, the I.G.C. Bureau has been unable to
find a worthy recipient to be awarded the Lilienthal Medal, Gliding's
highest award. The Bureau has only 90,000 pilots/officials to select a
recipient from. ( ? ? ?)

But surely, just to award it to someone because it exists, devalues the
award to those who have merited it.

In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous was a vacant seat at the Round
Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in
the quest for the Holy Grail.

You have to earn your right to the award.