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Re: The IPF rules aren't valid

Posted By: Garry Holmen
Date: Monday, 19 December 2005, at 7:09 a.m.

In Response To: The IPF rules aren't valid (Larry Miller)

> The IPF wouldn't allow Ernie's lifters to
> compete since they had lifted in another
> organization's nationals.

Larry this is incorrect. The reason all of this started was because Ernie wanted to invite some South African lifters over to compete. Almost every other sporting organization had a ban on South African athletes due to aparthied.

It wasn't so much that the lifters lifted at another Nationals but more so the fact that this national meet was setup to skirt around this aparthied ban was it not?

The USPF allowed Johson and Sternberg(sp?) to compete at their Nationals and lobbied the IPF to allow them to lift at IPF Worlds. The IPF did not reverse the suspensions yet the USPF sent the two women to IPF Worlds to be part of the team.

> Now that they are successfully back in the US
> why would they risk a similar law suit.

The bigger question is why introduce a rule that they struck down only a few years ago (or one similar enough to this one) because it was unenforceable.

> So why weren't the IPF execs and lifters all
> suspended.

Because at the time there was no longer any rule to suspend lifters?

> In the past, IPF suspended lifters have lifted
> at IPF meets in Europe without sanctions
> against everyone in attendance.

In the past the same thing happened in the USPF and Asian powerlifting federations as well.

> Personally, I would not worry about competing
> at any meet in any organization.

Go in forewarned and forearmed IMHO. If I get suspended from IPF for competing against suspended lifters or international non-sanctioned meets I'ld take my suspension because I *knew* what the results would be before I started down that path.

I wouldn't want to be the lifter who kept powerlifting out of the US.

Garry

PS: Did Inzer not aquite the Frantz judgement on the IPF's behest? Let's not taint the middle man.

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