The 42nd Alpe‐Adria sport event was once again held at the SOLARIS campsite, but this year with excellent weather conditions. Unfortunately, some registration listings were not received in time and therefore numerous participants had to register lately with Sieglinde and Jean on Wednesday afternoon.
On
Thursday morning, a meeting was scheduled with the sport responsible at 10
o’clock, but unfortunately had to be cancelled again as last year, as some
responsible had not appeared! Therefore, the amended listings could only be
handed over to the responsible just before the start of the respective sport
events.
The
official opening of the competitions took place on Thursday at 12:30 in the
presence of the Director of Solaris, the INF President, Sieglinde, the EuNatCom
secretary Jean and many participants.
Meanwhile, the two helpful entertainers from Solaris had prepared the individual sports fields perfectly and the competition could be started.
Meanwhile, the two helpful entertainers from Solaris had prepared the individual sports fields perfectly and the competition could be started.
The
present federations were: BN, DFK(+BNV), DNH, FENAIT, FENHU, FLN, ÖNV, ZDNS as
well as some members without participating federation who joined the games and
were enrolled under INF‐FNI. In total, more than 100 members took part in the
competitions. (As no responsible from Ukraine‐Russia was present, the
Solaris team took over the supervision for badminton).
After
the official opening on 19th of June the various competitions began under
excellent weather conditions around 14:30 o’clock: Chess (ÖNV) Table Tennis
(FENHU), badminton (animation team), Cross for Children (FENHU) and Adults as
well as Tug of War (FLN + János).
On
June 20th, around 9:30 o’clock the Tennis games were launched (DFK). (As no
sport responsible from the DFK was present, a DFK Member (Klaus Herzog) managed
this oversight ‐ Thank you) Because we were unable to finish the badminton
competition the previous day, the volleyball tournament (ZDNS) was moved to the
2 Volleyball fields close to the GALEB restaurant to maintain the flow of play.
Because
the gala dinner was foreseen from 20.30 till 22.00 o’clock, it was decided at short‐term
to hold the award ceremony for the completed competitions on Saturday from
12‐14 o’clock on the sport fields to avoid running out of time at the gala
dinner.
On
21st of June, the “Pétanque” tournament was started under the supervision of
FENAIT (assisted by Jim) with 19 doublets and the Beach‐Volleyball
(ZDNS) started in the afternoon. Both competitions finished well in time.
The gala dinner in the evening was excellent as every
year. The price distribution with Cups and Medals for the remaining
competitions (pétanque and beach volleyball) was held after dinner in the
restaurant SOLARIS.
The
trophy for "pétanque" this year went to the ÖNV. The FENHU was also
honoured with a trophy for the most wins in the sport. The individual ratings
(ranked 1‐3) can be found in the INF DOWNLOAD under "EuNat forms and
Events ‐> Alpe Adria". At the request of various federations, a
complete list of the "pétanque" competition is also available as
download there.
Remains
to be mentioned that the youngest participant was five years “young”. A trophy
for the oldest participant could not be assigned because much age information
was missing on the forms!
At the end SOLARIS donated a giant cake for dessert.
On
June 22nd, the final meeting, attended by the Director Solaris, the animation
team, Sieglinde (INF), Jean (ENC) and the sports leaders of DFK, FENAIT, FENHU,
ÖNV and ZDNS was held by 10 o’clock.
It
has to be reiterated that the federations should respect the deadline to submit
their correctly filled out listings, as this is a prerequisite for a
trouble‐free overall flow of this event.
ZDNS
criticized the preparation of the beach volleyball court by the animation team.
Jean noticed that it’s up to the sport responsible to check the condition of
their sport fields before the start of each tournament and to notice any
improvement suggestions immediately to the animation team or to Jean.
Generally
speaking, all sport responsible were satisfied with the process and we hereby
thank the Solaris Management for this valuable provision of the entertainment
team. Sieglinde handed over a small gift to the leader of the team as “Thank
You”.
In
addition, it has been proposed also to add the Slovenian language to the
program in addition to the 3 INF languages (+ Italian and Croatian). Jean will
contact ZDNS for this purpose.
In the future, Janos (FENHU) will bring along all cups
and medals for the different sports from Hungary.
A
survey with the INF members revealed that the new DOWNLOAD CENTRE is unknown to
most participants. Our request to federations is to inform their members about
this access in their next magazine or on their homepage. Thus, INF members of
federations, which are not represented at Alpe‐Adria, could register
individually with Jean. (Jean will create a relevant document in the INF 3
languages and deliver it to the federations).
It
was also considered to extend the sport activities next year with a “Pedalboat”
competition on the beach for all participants. Details will be provided in the
invitation form at the beginning of 2015 and after consultation with the
Solaris management.
It
remains to notice that this INF‐ENC event is open to all EU federations and we hope
for an additional participation of other federations in order to spend some
beautiful days together with friends, since there are many direct cheap flights
to the destination airport PULA. (Istria).
Jean
will contact the Solaris Management one month prior to the next meeting to
introduce the timely publication of the meeting all over the Solaris campsite
to all INF‐FNI members.
Great Thanks to the VALAMAR
management, the directress of SOLARIS, it’s team and all sport responsible for
their valuable work and we are pleased to inform you that the next Alpe‐Adria
meeting will take place again at SOLARIS from the 4th to the 7th
of June, 2015.
