AIDA this week acknowledged its World Championship depth competitors will steal subject this coming August, an announcement that has precipitated controversy for the interval of the freediving crew.
The competitors is slated for August 15th-25th, 2022 in Roatan, Honduras, per a put up on AIDA’s Facebook page.
The announcement hasn’t sat effectively, though.
Champion freediver William Trubridge, who organizes the Vertical Blue competitors at Deans Blue Gap within the Bahamas which is slated to launch August 1st, acknowledged:
“Asserting dates 3 months out, and announcing a launch for the [World Championship] that is 96 hours after the shut of essentially the most animated match on the freediving calendar ([Vertical Blue], dates for which had been residing closing 365 days) will imply that even fewer top athletes will wait on the 2022 [World Championship] than closing 365 days.
“For the same causes the AIDA WC has sadly been in decline since 2019, despite unparalleled portions of AIDA funds being spent on it.”
Freediving trainer and old UK champion David Mellor acknowledged:
“Aida organisers please discover that many athletes are also instructors who acquire to gain money so they’ll wait on an match esteem this.
“Right here is such immediate spy it is ridiculous, I myself and I’m particular many other athletes acquire teaching commitments that contrivance we are able to no longer wait on.
“Are you able to characterize why it has taken you so long to mutter the date after which perhaps that you simply may repair whatever the misfortune is so it doesn’t occur all another time next 365 days.”
Examine out AIDA’s announcement here.
AIDA Proclaims 2022 World Championship Dates
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John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first acquired the diving malicious program while in Excessive College in Cairo, Egypt, the attach he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification within the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Cruise of Costa Rica, and other places at the side of a pool in Las Vegas serving to to damage the enviornment fable for essentially the most animated underwater press conference.