The IAAF Council will take place in Munich today and tomorrow.
We have come into possession, received by a mutual friend, of an interesting document entitled "Strengthening the race of the 50km race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, making it gender equality".
Written and prepared by Avv. Paul F. DeMeester of San Francisco, California, who for years supported the walkers in obtaining this "gender equality" this document wants to be a trace for a discussion within the same Council.
Regardless of what will be the outcome of the discussion, the document traces the six chapters in which it is written the past and present of the 50km and the reasons for which Paul F. DeMeester has dedicated himself in this project.
We invite our readers to read it (it is in English, but with a fluency estimate); the knowledge of the founding points of the six chapters, whose headlines are listed below, will remind us of the 50km history of men over the years
The six chapters are as follows:
I - The progress made in the women’s 50K
II - The 50K gives credit to the term athletics
III - Race walking is a aafe sport
IV - We make public our athletic avents, meaning we broadcast them, which does not mean we stage events for the sake of broadcasts
V - Money isn’t everything, sometimes, as in the case of the 50K, it’s about sports and athleticism, not just business
VI - Déjà Vu All Over Again
VII - Conclusion