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International WASZP Games CANCELLED - COVID-19 Statement

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International WASZP Games ITALY – Cancelled

It is a with a heavy heart that WASZP has decided to cancel the 2020 International WASZP Games to be hosted at Maclesine, Lake Garda, Italy. We are really feeling for all those affected by COVID-19 currently both in Italy and around the world. With this decision, we are dealing with what is in front of us currently and not what is ‘potentially’ going to happen in the future. We can only deal in the current environment.

Although this is a long distance still until the event, we are dealing with unprecedented circumstances, including lengthy travel bans, quarantine and reduced services. The issues we are facing with International competitors travelling to Europe for this event are numerous and complicated. We have already had a number pull out of the event already, with so much uncertainty around travel safety.

The last thing we want our customers, sailors to experience the uncertainty of an event that may not run, we have already seen this in Australia with the F1 Grand Prix, being cancelled the day of the event starting, meaning people travelling from around the world and domestically have already spent the money required to be there for no event.

We do not want to run the risk of sailors booking, travel, shipping and accommodation at the risk of having to stop the event when it is too late. We would rather our sailors invest in the domestic scene for 2020 and then move forward with an exciting 2021 Event Season, we are especially looking forward to April 2021 in Auckland NZ and the potential re-scheduling of a European based International WASZP Games either 2021 or 2022.

All is not lost in 2020 as we race to find some contingencies to create an exciting year for WASZP. We are in positive discussions with the club to hold the date range and compress the event slightly, with the potential of hosting a European Championships there. This will assist people who have already booked accom/travel ect and if the current situation improves we have a great alternative event for 2020 in Europe. Our aim is to support our sailors as much as we can during this time to make sure they are not out of pocket in this tough time. This is why we have acted early so anyone not going can hold off and leaving the slot open for a scaled down European Championships to allow people already financially committed a chance to still sail provided it is safe.

The team at Fraglia Vela Malcesine have been fantastic throughout the evolving situation, we want to show our support to FVM and Italy if possible when this is all over.

WASZP is already looking at an ‘on-line’ based event circuit and the development of some new formats that are exciting for not just our current sailors going forward with isolation issues, but also for new WASZP owners who may be in isolated areas going forward. More information to come.

We still have the SailGP legs to look forward to, particularly in Europe in August/December for Cowes and Copenhagen, with the local fleets looking to create a ‘festival’ of WASZP sailing around those events. We have a contingency to add a 2020 European Championships on the back of an existing major event.

We will make further comment on the 1st of April 2020.